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Acknowledgments: For comment and advice, I am indebted to 

 Dr. Ernst Mayr of the Museum of Comparative Zoology and Dr. 

 Austin L. Rand of the Chicago Natural History Museum, both of 

 whom have had broad experience with the Meliphagidae in the field 

 and in the laboratory. To the Marquess Yoshimaro Yamashina I 

 owe thanks for information on specimens in his collection and un- 

 published observations on the living bird, and to Dr. F. Raymond 

 Fosberg of the National Research Council and Dr. Egbert H. Walker 

 of the U. S. National Museum for guidance in the botanical literature. 

 Finally, I am indebted to Mrs. Patricia Isham of the U. S. National 

 Museum for the drawing of the tongue of Apalopteron. 



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