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tail-coverts Avhltish, Tvith a slight wash of yellow ; axillaries pale 

 yellow ; under wing-coverts ashy whitish washed with yellow ; 

 quills dusky below, whitish along the edge of the inner web. Total 

 length 6-5'inches, culmen 0-6, wing 3-7, tail 2-25? tarsus 0-9. 



Adult femctle. Ditiers from the male in wanting the yellow on 

 the head and throat ; the greater wing-coverts tipped with white. 

 Total length 6-7 inches, culmen 0-G5, wing 3-6, tail 2-15, tarsus 

 0-95. 



Yoiinr/. Like the old female, but much more dingy olive-green, 

 the wing-coverts tipped with white ; ear-coverts also with whitish 

 shaft-lines. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands. 



a,b. S 2 ad. sk. Sandwich Islands. J. Gould, Esq. 



c, d. cS ad. sk. Hilo, Owhyhee, Sandwich Vov. of II.M.S. ' Chal- 



Islands. longer.' 



e,f. d ad. et juv. sk. Sandwich Islands. Capt. Lord Byron [P.]. 



9. PINAEOLOXIAS. 



Bill of Pinaroloxias inomata. 

 Range. Bow or Harp Island, Low Archipelago. 



1. Pinaroloxias inornata. 



Cactornis inornata, Gould, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 104 ; id. Voy. ' Sulphur,^ 

 Birds, p. 42, pi. 25 (1844) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 359 (1844) ; 

 Salvin, Trans. Z. S. ix. p. 485 (1870). 



Loxops inornata, Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Isl. Pacijic Ocean, p. 28 (1859); 

 id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 114, no. 1414 (18G9). 



Adult? (type of species). Upper surface mottled, the feathers 

 dark brown, broadly edged with olive-brown, the head a little more 

 uniform, with less distinct edges : lesser wing-coverts hke the back ; 

 median and greater coverts dark brown, with broad edgings of 

 sandy buff; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dark brown, 

 edged with lighter brown ; tail-feathers dark brown, edged with 

 paler brown and tipped with sandy buif, more broadly on the outer 

 feathers ; lores and feathers above the eye sandy buif, as well as 

 the plumes below the eye ; ear-coverts unifonn dark brown ; cheeks 

 and under surface of body sandy buff, streaked with dark-brown 

 centres to the feathers ; the flanks slightly more mfesceut, and the 

 abdomen paler and more uniform yellowish buff like the under 

 tail-coverts; under wing-coverts and axillaries yellowish buff; 

 quills dusky below, ashy fulvous along the edge of the inner web. 



