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BIRDS OF THE HAWAIIAN GROUP. 



bod}', both above and below, fine deep black ; rump, upper tail coverts, under tail 



coverts, thighs, lesser wing coverts and margin of the wing fine rich yellow, "crocus 



yellow" (Wilson); primary coverts white; tail feathers blackish, showing a little dull 



white for .50 along the shaft of the outer pair ; primaries black with the outer edge, for 



its distal third, white ; secondaries black tipped with white. Sexes and young: Length 



about 8.00, wing 4.00-4.15, tail 2.65-2.90, chord of culmen i. 62-1. 70, depth of bill .30, 



width .30, tarsus 1.15, toe .75. Hab. Hawaii. 



70. D. paci'fica (Gmel.). Mamo. 



Genus DREPANORHAM'PHUS Rothschild. 



FIG. 2. n. FUXERKA. 



With the upper and lower parts fine deep black, with no yellow on the runijj; 



base of the upper mandible yellow or whitish; tail and inner edge of primaries deep 



black ; outer edge of primaries smoky black at base, passing to whitish and forming a 



white conspicuous patch. Female: Similar, but with a shorter bill. Length about 



8.00, wing 3.90-4.00, tail 2.55-2.80, cliord of culmen 1.85-2. 15, depth .32, tarsus i.io- 



1.20, toe 1. 00. Hah. Molokai. 

 PI. XXVII., 6696. 71. D. fune'rea' (Newton). Perkins' Mamo. 



Genus VESTIA'RIA Fleming. 



FIG. 3. V. COCCINE.V. 



Bill curved; about the same length as head; bill and feet vermilion in life, dry- 

 ing whitish ; general color uniform scarlet vermilion including scapulars and lesser wing 



S4I take plea.sure in adopting the new seneric name for D. fiuicica (Newton) proposed by the Hon. Walter Rothschild in his "Avifauna 

 of Laysan. etc." (Part III., p. 163). While it is unfortunate that the single example of this genus could not have been left as a species of the 

 old and well known genus Dtrpanh. the facts are the form differs from it sufficiently to warrant the change. 



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