2. DEEPANIS. 5 



Adult. Entirely of a dull olive, with the upper part of the head 

 yellowish ; the eyebrows, fore part of the neck, and breast lively 

 yellow. {Lafres7icn/e.) 



Hub. Sandwich Islands. 



3. Hemignathus lucidus. 



Hemignathus lucidus, Licht. Abhandl. K. Akad. Berlin, 1838, p. 451, 



tab. V. Ho-. 2; Bp. Consj]. i. p. 404 (1850); Beichenb. Handb. 



Scans, p. 313, Taf. dxcj. fios. 4012-13 (1853); Licht. Numencl. Av. 



p. 55 (1854) ; Cass. U.S. Expl.Exped., Birds, p. 180 (1858); Dole, 



Proc. Bust. Soc. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 298 (1869) ; Sclater, Ibis, 1871, 



p. 359. 

 Drepanis lucida, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 96 (1847) ; id. Bund-l B. i. 



p. 113, uo. 1407 (1869). 

 Drepanis (Hemignathus) lucida, Gray, Cat. B. Trap. Isl. Pacific 



Ocean, p. 9 (1859). 



? Young. General colour above dull ashy olive, a little clearer 

 olive on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; lesser wing-coverts like 

 the back ; median and greater coverts brown, edged with ashy olive 

 and tipped with whitish, forming two narrow bars across the wing ; 

 bastard-wing and primary-coverts uniform brown ; quills brown, 

 externally edged with yellowish olive ; tail-feathers light brown, 

 externally olive ; head dull ashy like the mantle, a little more olive 

 on the sides of the crown ; lores ashy ; feathers round the eye yel- 

 lowish white ; ear-coverts olive, with dull white shaft-lines ; cheeks 

 and under surface of body yellowish white, somewhat streaked with 

 ashy on the fore neck and chest, where the feathers have ashy 

 centres ; sides of body and flanks ashy brown washed with olive, as 

 also the thighs ; under tail-coverts yellowish white, with brown 

 bases to the feathers ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white, 

 slightly washed with olive-yeUow ; quills brown below, whitish 

 along the inner web. Total length 5-2 inches, culmen 1, wing 2-8, 

 tail l*7o, tarsus 0-8.* 



Bab. Sandwich Islands. 



a. Juv. sk. Sandwich Islands. Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 



2. DREPANIS. Type. 



Drepanis, Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. Ixxxvi (1820) D. pacifica. 



Falcator, Tenmi. (1822, teste Gray) D. paciiica. 



Range. Sandwich Islands. 



1. Drepanis pacifica. 



Great Hook-billed Creeper, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. pt. 2, p. 703 (1782). _ 

 Certhia pacifica, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 470 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. 

 p. 281 (1790). 



* The specimen described, having been long exposed to the light in the public 

 gallery, has probably become faded. It appears to belong to H. lucidus. 



