3. VESTIARIA. 7 



Bole, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 297 (1869) ; Sclater, Ibis, 



1871, p. 358 ; id. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 347 ; id. Report Birds ' Challenger ' 



Exj). p. 95 (1881). 

 Vestiaria coccinea, Reichenb. Handb. Scansorice, p. 254, pi. dlxii. 



figs. 38-31-;32 (1853). 

 Drepanis (Vestiaria) coccinea, Gray, Cat. Birds Trop. Isl. Pacijic 



Ocean, p. 8 (1859). 



Adult male. General colour above scarlet-vermilion, the scapulars 

 like the back, as well as the lesser and median wing- coverts ; 

 greater coverts black, slightlj' margined with crimson near the tip 

 of the outer web ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, 

 the innermost secondaries and greater coverts drab-brown on the 

 inner web, and distinctly edged with crimson on the outer one, 

 some of the inner greater coverts ashy whitish ; tail-feathers black ; 

 entire head and neck all round as well as the entire under surface 

 of the body deep scarlet-vermilion, deepening into crimson on the 

 breast ; the plumes of the throat lanceolate and with white bases ; 

 axiUaries white, tinged with rosy colour ; under wing-coverts 

 greyish white, the edge of the wing washed with scarlet ; quills 

 blackish below, ashy white along the edge of the inner web ; " bill 

 and legs bright vermilion" (Finsch). Total length 5"2 inches, 

 culmen 1, wing 2*9, tail 1"95, tarsus (>9. 



Adult female. Like the male (Fiu.sch). 



Young female. General colour above ochraceous buff, mottled with 

 spots and bars of dusky blackish at the ends of the feathers ; the 

 mantle rather more ashy brown than the head ; scapulars like the 

 back, and barred in the same manner ; wing-coverts brownish 

 black, edged with ochraceous olive ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and quills black, the primaries edged with ashy olive, the inner 

 secondaries with the inner web white ; tail-feathers black ; sides of 

 face and ear-coverts deep ochraceous buff, with narrow whitish 

 shaft-lines on the latter ; throat and chest ochraceous buff, more 

 olive on the latter and deeper ochre on the throat, all the feathers 

 tipped with the same dusky spots as the upper surface ; lower 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts ashy olive, the breast scarlet (new 

 plumage) ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy white, the latter 

 with a slight rosy tinge ; quills dusky brown below, ashy whitish 

 along the edge of the inner web. Total length 4'5 inches, culmen 1, 

 wing 2-75, tail 1"8, tarsus 0-9. 



Hah. Sandwich Islands. 



a, b. c? ad. sk. Sandwich Islands, 



c. c? ad. ; f7. c? juv. sk. Sand-wich Islands. John Gould, Esq. 



e. cJ ad. ; fff. $ juv. sk. Hilo, Owhyhee. Voy. of H.M.S. ' Chal- 



lensrer.' 



