1869.J 297 [Dole. 



Supra fusca lineis loiigitudinalibus albis, gutture flavescentl-albo, 

 pectore et abdomine albis, fusco lineatis, crissis rufis, alis et caiida 

 fuscis, linea suboculari nigra. Long. tot. 13.5 pollioes. (Cassin.) 



Form rather slender; bill curved. Hab. Hawaii, wooded region. 



Specimen in Smithsonian Institution. 



7. Moho apiealis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1860, p. 381. 

 Dixon's Voyage round the World, jjlate opposite p. 357. 



General plumage sooty black ; tail brown, all but the two middle 

 feathers largely tipped with white ; the two central feathers somewhat 

 narrower than the others, and gradually diminishing in the apical 

 third of their length into fine hair-like or filamentous upturned points; 

 axillffi or under surface of the shoulder white ; flanks and under tail- 

 coverts bright yellow ; bill and legs black. Total length 12 in.; bill 

 1.5 in.; wing. 4.75 in.; tail 6.75 in.; tarsi 1.5 in. Hab. Hawaii. 



PROMEROPID^. 



8. Drepanis coccinea Merrem. MelUsuga coccinea Merrem, 

 Beyt. Bes. Gesch. Vdgel, p. 17, pi. iv. Certhia coccinea Gmelin, 

 Syst. Nat., I, p. 470 (1788). C. vestiaria Latham, Ind. Ornith., I, p. 

 282 (1790). D. coccinea Cassin, U. S. Expl. Exped., Mam. and 

 Ornith., p. 177. Shaw, Nat. Misc., HI, pi. lxxv; Vieillot, Ois. dor., 

 pi. LII, LIII. 



D. coccinea, alis caudaque nigris (Forster) ; rostro capite longis, 

 acinacis modo curvato, albido; pedibus cum unguibus longis albican- 

 tibus ; rectriclbus brevis, acuminatis ; alarum margine et pennarum 

 gularium radice alba, longitudine vix 6 poUices adajquans. (Gmelin.) 

 Hab. Hawaii. Formerly much sought for its feathers. 



9. Drepanis pacifica Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, p. 470 {Cerllda 

 pacifica). 



D. nigra, subtus obscura, humeris, dorso inferiore, uropyglo crissoque 

 flavis, tectricibus alarum inferioribus niveis, caudiB superioribus et 

 nonnuUis alarum interioribus flavis; rostro valde curvato fusco, basi 

 pallidis ; pedibus ex atro fuscis. Long. 8 pollices. Hab. Hawaii, Kauai. 



10. Drepanis sanguinea Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, p. 479. {Cer- 

 thia sanguinea.) 



J), sanguinea, remigibus caudaque nigris, abdomine obscuro, crisso 

 albo; rostro obscuro, pedibus nigris; remigum secundarium margine 

 badis, rectricibus acuminatis. Long. 5 pollioes. (Gmelin.) Apapane 

 of the natives. Hab. Hawaii, Kauai. 



Gmelin gives D. virens as possibly the ? of this species; the edges 



