THE SANDWICH ISLANDS 315 



Bueva^idida:. 



1 2. Brcpanis 2)cicljica (extinct) Hawaii. 



1 3. Vastiaria coccinea All the Islands. 



14. Hiniationc vircus Hawaii. 



15. ,, doUi Maui. 



16. ,, sanguinca All the Islands. 



17. , , viontana Lanai. 



18. ,, chloria Oahu. 



19. ,, maculala Oahu. 



20. ,, parva Kauai. 



21. ,, stcjiicgeri Kauai. 



22. Oreoiuyza bairdi Kauai. 



23. Hcviignafhtos ohscurus Hawaii. 



24. , , oUvaccus Hawaii. 



25. ,, lichtensteini Oahu. 



26. ,, liicidas Oahu. 



27. ,, stejncgcri :. Kauai. 



28. ,, haua2Jr.ps Kauai. 



29 . Loxo]is coccinea Hawaii. 



30. , , flammca Molokai. 



31. ,, aurca Maui. 



32. ChrysomitridoiJs cceiiUcorostria Kaui. 



33. , , anna (extinct) 



FiiixGiLLiDJ^ (Fiuchea). 



34. Loxioidcs haillcui Hawaii. 



35. Psittirostra psittacca All the Islands. 



36. Chloridops kona Hawaii. 



CoRViD^ (Crows). 



37. Corvus haicaiiensis Hawaii. 



Many of the birds recently described are representative 

 forms found in the several islands of the group. 



Taking the above in the order here given, we have, 

 first, two peculiar genera of true flycatchers, a family con- 

 fined to the Old World, but extending over the Pacific as 

 far as the Marquesas Islands. Next we have two peculiar 

 genera (Avith four species) of honeysuckers, a family 

 confined to the Australian region, and also ranging over 

 all the Pacific Islands to the Marquesas. We now come 

 to the most important group of birds in the Sandwich 

 Islands, comprising seven or eight peculiar genera, and 

 twenty-two species which are believed to form a peculiar 

 family allied to the Oriental flower-peckers (Diceid^e), and 

 perhaps remotely to the American greenlets ( Vireonidee), or 



