Le Hoho, Audeb. et Vieill. Ois. Dor. pi. Ixiii. (1802). 



Merops jaunoir, Levaill. Hist. Nat. Fromerops et Guepiers, iii. pi. 19 

 (1807). 



Drepanis pacifica, Temm. Man. d'Om. i. p. Ixxxvi (1820) ; Gray, 

 Gen. B. i. p. 96 (1847) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 403 (1850) ; Reichenh. 

 Handh. Scans, p. 25.3, pi. dlxi. tip:. 3828 (185.3); Grai/, Cat. Birds 

 Trop. Isl. Pacific Ocean, p. 7 (1859) ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 113, 

 no. 1443 (1869) ; Dole, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 297 

 (1869) ; Sclater, Ibis, 1871, p. 358 ; Pelz. Ibis, 1873, p. 21. 



Melitreptiis pacificus, Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. ii. p. 602 (1823). 



Vestiaiia bolio, Less. 



Length 8 inches. Bill an inch and three quarters, stout at the 

 base, and very much hooked ; colour of it brown, with a pale 

 base ; the upper parts of the body are black, except the lower part 

 of the back, the rump, and upper tail-coverts, which are of a fine 

 deep yellow ; the underparts of the body dusky ; the shoulders, 

 inner ridge of the wing, and part of the inner wing-coverts are of 

 the same yellow ; the bastard-wing yellowish white at the end ; the 

 under wing-coverts snow-white ; the sides of the vent, the vent 

 itself, and the thighs are yellow ; the tail and quills black ; the legs 

 black-brown. {Latham.) 



Hah. Sandwich Islands. 



3. VESTIARIA. 



Type. 



Vestiaiia, Fleming, Phil. Zool. ii. p. 246 (1822) V. coccinea. 



Bill of Vestiaria coccinea. 

 Mange. Sandwich Islands. 



1. Vestiaria coccinea. 



Hook-billed Red Creeper, Lath. Gen. Si/n. i. pt. 2, p. 704 (1782). 

 Mellisuga coccinea, Merrem, Av. Bar. Descr. et Icon. p. 14, pi. iv. 



(1786). 

 Certhia coccinea, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 470 (1788). 

 Certhia vestiaria, Lath. hid. Orn. i. p. 282 (1790). 

 L'Heorotaire, Audeb. et Vieill. Ois. Dor. pi. 52 (1807). 

 Melitreptus vestiarius, Vieill. Gal. Ois. i. pi. 181 (1825-34). 

 Nectarinia coccinea, Bloxam in Byron s Voy. ' Blonde,^ p. 249 (1826). 

 Melithieptus vestiarius, Less. Traite, p. .300 (1831). 

 Drepanis vestiaria, Hartl. Syst. Verz. Brem. p. 16- (1844), 

 Vestiaria evi, Less. 

 Drepanis coccinea. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 96 (1847) ; Cass. U.S. Bxpl. 



Exped. p. 177 (1858) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 113, no. 1405 (1869) ; 



