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nests of insects (caterpillars). First and third primaries longest, first 

 scarcely shorter. (Finsch.) 



Youiuj (just able to fly, and fed by the former). Upper parts dull 

 olive-green, the ftuter margin of the dark-brown quills and tail- 

 feathers more vivid, the same as the tips of the secondaries, which 

 form a pale cross band on the wing ; lower parts pale olive-yellow, 

 chin passing into whitish : bill horn-blackish, tip darker ; feet 

 black ; third and fourth primaries longest, second equal to the fifth, 

 somewhat shorter, first a little shorter ; tail twelve feathers. Tongue 

 ordinary, bifurcated at tip. (Finsch.) 

 Jlah. Sandwich Islands. 



8. PSITTIEOSTEA. Type. 



Psittirostra, Temm. Man. d'Oni. i. p. Ixx (1S20) P. psittacea. 



Bill of Psittirostra psittacea. 

 Mange. Sandwich Islands. 



1. Psittirostra psittacea. 



Parrot-billed Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Sijn. iii. p. 108, pi. 42 (1783). 

 Loxia psittacea, Gm. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 844 (1768J ; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. 



p. 371 (1790). 

 Psittirostra psittacea, Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. Ixs (1820); Sicains. 



Classif. B. ii. p. 29-5 (1837) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 389 (184o) ; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 492 (18o0) ; Reichenh. Handb. Scans, p. 101, Taf. 



cccclxv.6. fig. 3408 (1853) ; Gray, Hand-l B. i. p. 114, no. 1412 



(1869) ; Peh. Ibi\ 1873, p. 21 ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 347 ; id. 



Report Birds ' Challenger' E.iped. p. 04 (1881). 

 Psittirostra sandviceusis, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 91 (1826). 

 Psittacirostra icterocephala, Temm. PI. Col. iii. pi. 457 (1828). 

 Psittirostra icterocephala, Gray, Cat. B. Trap. Isl. Pacific Ocean, 



p. 28 (1859). 



Adult male. General colour above yellowish green, duller on the 

 mantle and upper back ; wing-coverts like the back ; greater 

 coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky blackish, 

 externally yellowish green, brighter on the edge of the primaries, 

 the inner secondaries somewhat ashy towards their ends : quiUa 

 dusky brown, edged -with yellowish green ; head and neck all round, 

 including sides of face and throat, bright lemon-yellow ; sides of 

 neck dull greenish ; lower throat and chest pale ashy, with slightly 

 indicated dusky centres, and washed ^^'ith pale yellow ; remainder of 

 under surface whitish ash-colour, the feathers edged with pale yellow; 

 flanks and sides of bodv yellowish green ; thighs whitish ash ; under 



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