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Total length 3-8 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-15, tail 1-45, tarsus 0'6. 

 (ilft/s. Civic. Genov.) 



Adult femcile. Rather more olive-yellow, and not of such a deep 

 green above as the male ; quills and tail-feathers dusky brown, with 

 olive-yellow margins, the latter with a slight shade of darker or 

 blackish brown towards their ends ; lores dusky white ; ej^e-ring j-el- 

 lowish ; ear-coverts ashy grey ; cheeks and throat dull whitish, the 

 lower part of the latter washed with yellow ; rest of under surface of 

 body blight yellow, as also the under wing-coverts and axillaries ; 

 quills dull brown below, whitish along the edge of the inner web. 

 Total length 38 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 1'9,5, tail 1"4, tarsus 0-6. 



Ohs. The type of the species is a young male, resembling the 

 female, but already showing traces of the adult plumage in the shape 

 of black feathers on the throat and a ring of black plumes round 

 the eye. 



Hah. Aru Islands and N.W. New Guinea. 



a. (S ad. sk. Aru Islands. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 

 b,c. (^2 f^d. sk. Aru Islands ( Voti Rosen- Leiden Museum [P.]. 

 berg). 



19. CHASIEMPIS. 



Type. 



Chasienipis, Calanis, Arch, fur Naturg. 1847, p. 207. . C. sand-^'icensis. 



Foot of Chasiempis sandvicensis. 



Range. Confined to the Sandwich Islands and Earotonga in the 

 Pacific. 



Key to the Sjoedes. 

 Males. 



a. Above rufous-brown ; upper tail-coverts white ; 



forehead and eyebrow rufous sandvicetisis, p. 232. 



b. Above dark ashy grey ; upper tail-coverts black ; 



forehead and eyebrow dull white dimidiata, p. 232. 



Females. 



a. Rufous ; tail bro-v\m, with white tips to the inner 



webs sandvicensis, p. 2"32. 



b. Rufous ; tail palo rufous, with a broad band of 



dark brown at the tip dimidiata, p. 232. 



