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Description. Ad. {U. 8. Nat. Mus., No. 110051; Kauai, Hawaiian Isl- 

 ands. V. Knudsen coll.). — Entire upper surface aud sides of body as well 

 as the outer edges of quills aud tail-feathers bright yellowish olive-green, 

 inclining to olive-yellow on forehead, region above the lores, supercilia, 

 and rump; trace of a dusky line between bill and eye; under surface, 

 including under tail-coverts, bright olive-yellow; middle of abdomen, 

 tibia?, axillaries, and under wing-coverts white, except those of the latter 

 nearest to the edge of the wing, which are bright yellow ; quills black- 

 ish, edged in the outer web with yellowish olive, in the inner one with 

 white. Bill horny, brownish gray, pale at base below the nostrils ; feet 

 horny, brownish gray. 



^S'o. 110052 differs only in having the colors slightly less bright. 



Mr. Knudsen writes that this little bird, the native name of which is 

 Kamao, feeds on bugs, but also on the juice of flowers. The speci- 

 mens sent were male and female. They are evidently adult birds, with- 

 out any trace of immature plumage. 



Measurements. 



* Type. 



There is in the U. S. National Museum a specimen (No. 14686) ob- 

 tained by Mr. J. K. Townsend in the •' Sandwich Islands " [probably 

 Oahu] which bears a general resemblance to H.imrva. It seems to be 

 considerably smaller, but as it is in extremely abraded plumage and 

 the exact locality is unknown nothing definite can be made out of it. 



Himatione sanguiuea (Gmel.). 



Apapane. 



llir^.—Certhia sa^^ainea Gmelin,S. N., I, p. A79.—Rtmatione sanguineaCABAHis, Mus. 

 Hein., I, p. 99 (1850).— Pelzeln, Joura. f. Orn., 1872, p. 27.— Sharpe, Cat. 

 B, Brit. Mus., X, p. 8 {l^6o).— Drepanissan guinea Cxssui, U. S. Expl. Exp., 

 Mam. Oru., 2 ed., p. 439 (1858).— Dole, Proc. Boston Soc. N. H., XII, 1869, 

 p. 297, Extr. p. 4. — Id., Hawaiian Almanac, 1879, p. 44. 



1626. — Nectarinia hyronensis Bloxham, Voy. "Blonde," App., p. 249. 



Five specimens from the "U. S. Exploring Expedition" and one ob- 

 tained by Mr. Townsend are before me for comparison with the three ones 

 sent by Mr. Knudsen. The former, except one, are only labeled " Sand- 

 wich Islands," but they are probably not from Kauai. In color I can 

 discover no difference, and from the table below it will be seen that 

 there is none as regards dimensions. 



The three Kauai birds are apparently fully adult, they being rich 

 crimson both above and below. One specimen (No. 110056) has the 



