Pea | Bryan, Description of Telespiza ultima. 71 
very liable to be the last native passerine bird to be discovered in 
the Hawaiian Group, the following name seems appropriate for 
this form occurring on remote Nihoa: viz., 
Telespiza ultima, new species. 
Typr.— o ad. (orig. no. 1), Nihoa Island, Hawaiian Group, February 
12, 1916. Collected by Lieut. W. H. Munter for W. A. Bryan. 
PARATYPES.— (a) ? (orig. no. 2), do. do.; (b) &@ (orig. no. 3), do. do.; 
(c) sex ? (orig. no. 4), do. do.; (d) (orig. no. 5), specimen in formalin. 
Spreciric CHARACTERS.— Closely resembling the Laysan species (7’. 
cantans) in color but smaller in all dimensions; upper and lower mandible 
approximately equal in length. 
DESCRIPTION OF TyPE.— (Fully adult male specimen.) Head all round 
and under parts to the middle of the abdomen yellow, brightest on the 
breast, brighter than equally adult specimens of cantans. Back, olive- 
yellow, varied with darker shaft-stripes; rump, gray, with an olive cast; 
upper tail coverts, olive-gray to yellowish; webs of tail feathers and prim- 
aries, brownish black, narrowly edged with yellow; wing coverts, yellowish; 
center of abdomen, whitish; under tail coverts, yellowish-white. 
MEASUREMENT OF TypE.— Total length, 5.65 in.; wing, 3.05; tail, 
2.20; tarsus, .85; culmen, .52; depth of bill, .42. 
Remarks. This species, occupying the restricted habitat of one 
of the smaller and older volcanic islands of the group, has evidently 
been evolved through isolation from the only other existing species 
of the genus, a well known form occurring abundantly on the low 
sand island of Laysan and which in recent years has also been 
introduced on Midway Island. 
I am indebted to Lieut. W. H. Munter for the type series, con- 
sisting of five specimens, which he secured for me on the last 
cruise of the U. S. R. C. “Thetis” to the Leeward Islands all of 
which are included in the Hawaiian Islands Bird Reservation. The 
birds are described as being quite fearless and were easily killed 
with small shot. The specimens were preserved in formalin pro- 
vided for the purpose and four have since been made up as dry skins. 
The three cabinet specimens not described above present the fol- 
lowing measurements in inches; 
Orig. no. 2, 2 length 5.50; wing 2.80; tail 2.05; tarsus .85; culmen .50. 
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