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coverts ; tertiaries tipped with white ; wing and tail feathers deep black. Female similar. 

 Young: All the vermilion parts grev, with some greenish and gallstone yellow ; feathers 

 with black tips, and vermilion showing here and there. Length 6.00, wing 2.87, tail 2.00, 

 tarsus 1.00-1.12, culmen .97-1.10. Hab. Hawaiian Islands, throughout the group. 

 PI. XXVIII., 9792, 9342, 9338, 9333, 9340, 9348, 9899. 72. V. coccin'ea Forster. liwi. 



Genus PAIyMK'RIA Rothschild. 



FIG. 4. p. noi.Ei. 



Forehead and crown covered with long lanceolate feathers forming a linear 



crest which rolls forward over the base of the beak ; crest grey in front, darker on the 



crown ; occipital feathers lanceolate, elongated and tipped with bright scarlet orange; 



feathers of the back blackish with silvery shaft stripes and tipped with scarlet orange; 



tail and wing feathers black, the former tipped (?), the latter narrowly margined 



with whitish ; throat dirty silver gre}- ; breast like the back. Young: Brownish grey 



above, with some black feathers showing orange tips ; breast showing smok}' gre^-; under 



tail coverts whitish. Length 6.50-6.75, wing 3.30-3.50, tail 2.65-2.80, culmen .70-.75, 



depth of bill .25, tarsus 1.10-1.20, toe .80. Hah. Molokai, Maui. 

 PI. XXVIII., 6595, 6596. 73. P. dolei-"" (Wilson). 



Genus HIMATI'ONE C.\banis. 



FIG. 



C. STEJNEGERI. H. SANGUINEA. 



C. PARVA. 



O. B.\IRDI. 



a. General color above dark crimson (^blood red), richest on the head and neck; 

 primaries black, faintly edged with ashy; secondaries with crimson buff; tail feathers 

 black; throat, breast and sides uniform with the back; abdomen white. Female: 

 Slightly lighter than the inale(?). Young: General color brown, washed with ful- 

 vous or buff; with buffy margins to the wing coverts; lower parts similar to upper; 

 with or without crimson feathers here and there, varying with age. Length 5.15-5.25, 

 wing 2.70-3.00, tail 2.05-2.15, culmen .65-.70, depth of bill .15, tarsus .75-.80, toe .70. 

 Hab. Hawaiian Islands, throughout the group. 



PI. XXVIII., 7996, 9803, 9322, 9898, 9309, 9324. 74. H. sanguin'ea (Gmel.). Apapa'ne. 



4oThe above species was named in honor of Hon. ^. B. Pole, and not a "wine jar" as the erroneous spelling dolu would make it. 



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