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Sclater failed to notice auy difference in the specimen may partly be 

 due to the very bad co ndition of the type specimens which he had for 

 examination. 



As to the names of these birds it matters little whether Gmelin's M. 

 macnlata applies to one or the other, inasmuch as this term was applied 

 by Ph. St. Miiller twelve years previous to no less than two different 

 species (Canon xxxiii, A. O. U. Code, p. 47). 



Mr. Knudseu writes that the Amakahi is also called " Kahuna ka lai 

 waa," or canoe-builder, by the natives. It catches moths and other fly- 

 ing insects on the wing, and also spreads the tail as a fan.* 



Jleasuremenfa. 



U.S. 

 Nat. 

 Mus. 

 Xo. 



41955* 



41956* 

 110037 

 110038 



Collector. 



Sex and 



Kundsen . ad. 



...do.... 

 ...do .... 

 ...do .... 



ad. 

 ad. 

 ad. 



Locality. 



Kauai, Hawaiian 

 Islands. 



...do 



...do 



...do 



Date. 



Middle 

 toe, 

 witlx 

 claw. 



'Type. 



* The synonymies of tlie different forms of Chasiempis recognized above, but not oc- 

 currins in Kauai, stand as follows: 



Chasiemjns sandirichensls (Gmel.). 



Sandwich Flycatcher. Elepaio. 



1788. — Muscicapa sandivichensis G.melin, S. N., I, p. 945. — Eopsaltria (Chasiempsis) 8, 



Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Isls. Pacif , p. 21 (1859). — ? Chaaiempis 8. Pelzeln, Ibis, 



1874, p. 462. 



1869. — Eopsaltria sandvicensia Dole, Proc. Boston Soc. N. H., XII, 1869, p. 300, Extr., 

 p. 7. — Id., Hawaiian Almanac, 1879, p. 48. 



Chaaiempis ridgtcaiji Stejn. 



Brown-faced Flycatcher. f? 



1878. — Chaaiempis sandvicensis Sclater, P. Z. S., 1878, p. 346 (nee Gmel.). — Id,, Rep. 



Voy. "Challenger," Zool., II, pt. viii, p. 94 (1881).— Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 



Mus., IV, p. 232 iimrt.) (1879). 

 1885. — Chaaiempis sandivichensis Sclater, Ibis, 1885, p. 18, pi. i, fig. 1 {nee Gmel.). 



Chaaiempis ihidia Stejn. 



Spotted-winged Flycatcher. 



1783. — ^Muscicapa maculata Gmelin, S. N., I, p. 945 {nee Mull., 1776). — Dole, Proc. 



Boston Soc. N. H., XII, 1869, p. 299, Extr., \i. 6. — Id., Hawaiian Almanac, 



1879, p. 48. 

 1847. — ? Chaaiempis sandvicensis C.4.BANIS, Wiegm. Arch. Naturg., I, 1847, p. 208. — 



LiCHTENSTEiN, Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol., p. 19 (1854). 

 1862. — Cnipolegus, sp. 1238, Sclater, Cat. Am. B., p. 203. 

 1879. — Chaaiempis sandvicensis Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., IV, p. 232 (part.). 

 1885. — Chasiempia aandivichensis Sclater, Ibis, 1885, j). 18, pi. i, fig. 2. 



