DREPANIDIDAE 



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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 -co verts, tibiae, 

 and bend of wing, 

 a little white shew- 

 ing 011 the wings 

 and tail ; D.funerea 

 is almost entirely 

 black. Vestiaria 

 coccinea is ver- 

 milion, with black 

 remiges and rec- 

 trices, and some 

 white on the wing- 

 coverts ; the bill 

 and feet being red. 

 Hemignaihus and 

 Heterorhynchus are 

 greenish-olive 

 above, with black 

 lores, brownish 

 remiges, and usu- 

 ally yellowish or 

 creamy lower surface ; but the head is occasionally yellow. Palmeria 

 dolii 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 

 wings, yellow under parts, and sometimes black lores; the very 

 closely allied Oreomyza may be duller or greyer, with buff and white 

 below. H. sanguined is crimson, with black and red wings, and 

 black tail. Loxops, which in one species is 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 ; Rhodacanthis 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 

 cheeks; it approaches Cyanospiza ciris (p. 585) in colour. 



FIG. 133. Mamo. Drepanis pacifica. x |. (After 

 Wilson and Evans, Aves Haivaiienses.) 



