4. HIMATIONE. 



Type. 



Himatione, Cnh. 3Im. Hein. Tli. i. p. 99 (1850) H. sanguinea. 



Bill of Himatione sanguinea. 

 Bancfe. Sandwich Islands. 



Key to the Species*. 



a. Crimson above and below sanguinea, p. 8. 



h. Olive-yellow above, brighter yellow below virens, p. 9. 



1. Himatione sanguinea. 



Crimson Creeper, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. pt. 2, p. 739 (1782). 

 Certbia sanguinea, Grn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 479 (1788). 

 L'Heorotaire eranioisi, Aucleb. et Vieill. Ois. Dor. ii. pi. 66 (1802). 

 Petrodroma sanguinea, Vieill. N. Diet. cl'Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 108 



(1818). 

 Nectarinia byronensis, Bloxam in Byron's Voy. ^ Blonde^ p. 249 



(1826) ; Gray in Griffith's Cuvier An. Eingd., Aves, ii. p. 390 cum 

 ^ fig. (1829). 



Nectaiinia sanguinea, Ctiv. Regn. Ati. i. p. 432 (1829). 

 Drepauis byronensis, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 12 (1831). 

 Drepanis sanguinea, Hartl. Syst. Verz. Brem. p. 16 (1844) ; Gray, Geti. 



B. i. p. 90 (1847) : Bj). Consp. i. p. 404 (18-58) ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 113, no. 1406 (1869) ; Dole, Froc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 297 



(1869) ; Sclater, Ibis, 1871, p. 358 ; id. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 347 j id. 



Meport Birds ^Challenger' Diped. p. 9-5 (1881). 

 Himatione sanguinea. Cab. Mas. Hein. Th. i. p. 99 (1850) ; Reichenh. 



Hatidb. Scamm-ice, p. 255, Taf. dlxii. figs. 3833-34 (1853). 

 Drepanis (Himatione) sanguinea, Gray, Cat. B. Trap. Isl. Padjic 



Ocean, p. 8 (1859). 



Adult male. General colour above dark crimson, rather richer on 

 the head and neck ; wing-coverts black, edged with crimson exter- 

 nally ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, the primaries 

 narrowly edged with ashy, the inner secondaries with crimson ; tail- 

 feathers black ; sides of face and under surface of body dark 

 crimson, somewhat mottled with ashy bases to the feathers ; abdomen, 

 thighs, and lower flanks browner : under tail-coverts white : under 

 wing-coverts dull ashy whitish, the edge of the wing browner ; axil- 

 laries white ; quills dusky below, ashy whitish along the edge of 



* Drepanis falcata, Gray, Hand-l. 5. i. p. 113, no. 1404 (1869), ex Gm. 8. N. 



i. p. 470. 

 Is Cinnyris lotenia. [See Shelley, Monogr. Xectar. p. 177.] 



