508 CLASS XVI. 



Drepanis Temm. i^Melithreptus ViEiLL. in part). Bill moderate 

 or long, arched, compressed, with margins entire; upper mandible 

 longer than lower. Wings with nine primaries, the second and 

 third longest of all. Tail short, even or subemarginate. Tarsi 

 long. 



Sp. Drepanis pacifica, Certhia pacifica Gm., Vestiaria hoho Less. ; — Drepanis 

 coccinea, Certhia coccinea Forster, Blumenb. Abb. naturh. Gegenst. N0.16, 

 Less. Ornith. PI. 76, fig. i, Gder. Icon., Ois. PI. 24, fig. 2 ; male scarlet- 

 red, with wing- and tail-feathers black ; a small bird, found at the Sandwich 

 Islands, with the feathers of which the inhabitants were used formerly to 

 adorn the head-dress and mantles of their chiefs. In another species, 

 also from the Sandwich Islands, the lower mandible attains only half the 

 length of the upper, Hemignathus Lichtenstein, Abhandl. der Akad. zu 

 Berlin, Pliysih. Kl., 1838, pp. 34, 35; Sp. Drepanis lucida Gray, Hemi- 

 gnathus lucidus LiCHTENST., 1. 1., Tab.v. figs. 2, 3, Heterorhynchus olivaceus 

 Lafresn., Magas de Zool. 1839, ^'^- ^1- i°- 



Dicceum Cuv., Temm. Bill moderate or short, acuminate, with 

 culmen curved, margins very entire. Wings with nine primaries, 

 the first three subequal, second longest of all. Tail short, even. 

 (Outer toes rather more concrete than in the other genera of this 

 family.) 



Sj). Dicceum cruentafum, Certhia cruentata L., Sonn. Voyage aux Incl. Or. 

 PI. 117, fig. I, GuER. Iconogr. Ois. PI. 24, fig. i ; — Dicceum sanguinolentum 

 Temm. PI. color. 478, fig. 2 ;— Dicceum hirundinaceum, Dicceum parclalodus 

 Cuv., Lafresn., Guer. Mag. de Zool. 1833, Ois. PI. 14. (This last species 

 forms the genus Myzanthe Hodgs.) 



Ccereba ViElLL. {Nectarinia Cuv., Arhelorhina Caban.) Bill 



moderate or a little longer than head, arched or moderately curved, 



slender, emarginate at the tip, with culmen keeled. Wings with 



nine primaries, the first three subequal, the second longest of all. 



Tail short, even. 



Sp. Ccereba cyanea, Certhia cyanca L., Buff. PI. enl. 83, fig. 2, Lesson 

 Ornith. PI. 77, fig. 1 ; Cayenne, Guyana, &c. 



Dacm's Cuv. Bill moderate or short, conical, acuminate, with 

 culmen keeled. Wings with nine primaries, third and fourth long- 

 est of all. Tail moderate or somewhat short, subemarginate. 



Sp. Dacnis cayana, Motacilla cayana L., Briss. Ornith. in. PI. 28, figs, i, 4, 

 Bdff. pi. enl. 669, fig. i, from which Strickland (Jardine Contrib. 

 to Ornith. 1851) distinguishes Dacnis melanotis as a species, Buff. PL enl. 

 669, fig. 2, Less. Ornith. PI. 64, fig. 2 ; which, according to Sclater, 

 appears to be the same as Dacnis angelica De Filippi; — Dacnis atricapiUa 



