100 BIRDS OF KAUAI ISLAND, HAWAIIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 



except that No. 110050 has the culmeu slightly more straight aud the 

 upper parts slightly more brownish. 

 I dedicate this new species to Prof. S. F. Baird. 



Measurements. 



U.S. 

 Nat. 



No. 



■Age 



Collector, and 



I sex. 



Locality. 



Bate. 



110019*1 Ejindsen ad.. Kauai, Hawaiiau 



I I I.slaiuls. 

 110050 ....do ... ad.. I.... do 



Tail- 

 Wing. |fcatli. 

 I era. 



Chord 



of ex- 



jjosed 



culmen. 



CI 



39 



Middle Hind 

 Tar- toe tne 



siis. ■with without 

 claw. ! claw. 



' Type. 



In addition it may not be out of place to give a brief 



PROVISIONAL KEY TO THE GENERA OF THE HAWAIIAN DICJEID^. 



a' Uiiper mandible more tliau one-third longer than the under mandible. Hetero- 



rhynclius. 

 a"2 Upper mandible slightly, if any, longer than the under mandible, the difference 

 being about one-tenth the chord of the culmen, or less. 

 &' Chord of exposed culmeu about equal to the tail-feathers. Hemitjnathue. Dre- 



panis. 

 b- Chord of exposed culmeu about half the length of the tail-feathers, or less, 

 c' Nas.ll fossie entirely bare, 

 d' Chord of exposed culmen less than the length of the tarsus. Himatlone. 

 d- Chord of exposed culmeu not less than the leugth of the tarsus. Vestiaria. 

 c' Nasal fossaj more or less covered by anthrorso plumes, 

 d' First primary shorter than sixth. Oreomyza. 

 d- First primary longer than sixth. Loxops. Psittirostra. Loxioides. 



Moho braccata Cassix. 



Go. 



ISiQ.—WertJna iiacijica Pkale, U. S. Expl. Exp., 1 ed. (p. U9), {nee Gmel.). 



lb53.—Mohoa fasciculaia 2 Reichenbach, Handb. Spec. Orn., II Abth., p. 33, pi. 

 dcxir, fig. 4009 (nee Lath.). 



1856. — Mohoa braccata Cassin, Proc. Philada. Acad., VII, p. 440. — Id., U. S. Expl. 

 Ex]). Mam. Orn., p. 272 (IS:)8).— (J/o/io) Dole, Proc. Post. Soc, XII, 1869, 

 p. 296, Extr. p. 3. — Id., Hawaiian Almauac, 1879, p. 46. — Sclateu, Ibis, 

 1871, pp. 358-360.— Zf7., ibid., 1S79, p. 92.— Pelzelx, Journ. f. Orn., 1872, p. 

 20,.— Id., Ibis, 1873, p. 21.— Wallace, Isl. Life, p. 297 (1881.) 



Dr. H. Gadow (Cat. B. Brit. Mus., IX, p. 284, 1884), notwithstanding 

 Dr. Sclater's statement that this bird is an " undoubtedly good species" 

 (Ibis, 1871, p. 2'o'i), unites it with M. nobilis, withoi^ a single word of 

 explanation. Reichenbach believed the bird to be the female of the 

 latter, but there is no clue as to whether Dr. Gadow shared this opinion. 



Cassin and Gould inform us that nearly the only sexual difference in 

 M. nobilis and J\r. apicalifi, rcsi)ectivcly, consists in tbe much inferior 

 size of the female, and v. Pelzeln's measurements and remarks (Journ. f. 

 Orn., 1872, pp. 25, 20) seem to corroborate their opinion. As will be 

 seen from the table below, I have before me two large, long- tailed M. 



