oe DREPANIDIDAE 563 
decided crop, as in many Finches. In some species the females 
appear to have shorter bills. 
Drepanis pacifica is black, with golden rump, upper and under 
tail-coverts, tibiae, 
and bend of wing, 
a little white shew- 
ing on the wings 
and tail; D. funerea 
is almost entirely 
black. Vestiariu 
coccinea 18 ver- 
milion, with black 
remiges and rec- 
trices, and some 
white on the wing- 
eoverts; the bill 
and feet being 
Hemignathus and 
Heterorhynchus are 
greenish-olive 
above, with black 
lores, brownish 
red. 
remiges, and usu- Tic. 1388.—Mamo. Drepanis pacifica. s 
ally yellowish or Wilson and Evans, Aves Hawatienses.) 
creamy lower surface ; but the head is occasionally yellow. Palmeria 
dolit has blackish plumage with scarlet or orange tips, a brilliant 
scarlet-orange nape, an orange space round the eye, similarly 
coloured tibiae, a grey throat, and a dirty white crest curving over 
the culmen. Himatione is generally yellow-green, with browner 
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wings, yellow under parts, and sometimes black lores; the very 
closely allied Oreomyza may be duller or greyer, with buff and white 
below. HH. sanguinea is crimson, with black and red wings, and 
black tail. Loxops, which in one species 1s dimorphic, is scarlet or 
orange, with brown on the remiges and rectrices ; Chrysomitridops 
is yellowish-olive, with yellow crown and lower surface, black on 
the wings and tail, and bluish bill. Psittacirostra is greenish with 
yellow head; Riodacanthis is reddish-orange with browner back, or 
in one case yellow head, while the female is green. Ciridops is 
red, with black throat, tail, and most of the wings, grey nape and 
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cheeks; it approaches Cyanospiza ciris (p. 585) im colour. 
