Sandwich-Island Birds. 191 



H. stejnegeri, Wilson, Ann. & Mag. N. H. torn. cit. p. 400. 



Of this well-marked species, which I am now enabled to 

 figure for the first time, Mr. V. Knudsen sent specimens to 

 Dr. Stejneger, who showed them to me in Washington, and 

 described them, though with some doubt, as belonging 

 to H. obscurus. Having met with that species on Hawaii, 

 it was plain to me, so soon as I got the present one in 

 Kauai, that they were absolutely distinct, and as such I have 

 described them, dedicating this one to Dr. Stejneger, who 

 has done so much for the ornithology of the Sandwich Islands 

 that he well deserves the honour of having this finest species 

 of the genus named after him. 



In regard to its habits I cannot give much information, as 

 it is a very scarce bird and shy of approach. It lives on 

 insects, which it finds under the bark of half-rotten trees, 

 particularly of the ohia, the chief forest-tree on Kauai, the 

 island to which this species is peculiar, and it there seems to 

 range from the lowest forest-zone to 3000 feet or perhaps 

 higher, the greatest height on Kauai (Waialeale) being 4000 

 feet. 



Through the kindness of Prof. Mobius, I have been able to 

 state that the Hemignathus procerus of Prof. Cabanis — a 

 description of which I have not yet been so fortunate as to 

 meet with — is identical with H. stejnegeri. 



Being thus furnished with the species of Hemignathus 

 proper, I now come to those which may form the subgenus 

 Heterorhynchus, and the first of these, I take, is 



12. Hemignathus olivaceus. 



Heterorhynchus olivaceus, Lafr. Mag. de Zool. 1839, pi. x.; 

 Eev. Zool. 1840, p. 321. 



This is the second and smaller species of the Island of 

 Hawaii, to which I believe it to be peculiar, and the first 

 specimens of it that I obtained were from the district of 

 Kona at a height of about 5000 feet. In this district it fre- 

 quents only the koa trees, running up and along their great 

 smooth trunks and limbs in its search for insects. In the 

 mamane woods, near Mana, I subsequently found it in con- 



