﻿Colli'ct'uiij 
  ill 
  Koiia, 
  Hawaii. 
  105 
  

  

  the 
  fruits 
  wlien 
  one 
  ol: 
  these 
  birds 
  is 
  feeding, 
  the 
  noise 
  of 
  which 
  

   can 
  be 
  heard 
  for 
  a 
  considerable 
  distance, 
  renders 
  the 
  bird 
  much 
  

   easier 
  to 
  get 
  than 
  it 
  otherwise 
  woukl 
  be. 
  It 
  is 
  mostly 
  found 
  

   on 
  the 
  roughest 
  Liva, 
  but 
  also 
  wanders 
  into 
  the 
  open 
  spaces 
  

   in 
  the 
  forest. 
  I 
  never 
  heard 
  it 
  sing 
  (I 
  once 
  mistook 
  the 
  young 
  

   Rhodacanthis' 
  song 
  for 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  Chloridops), 
  but 
  my 
  boy 
  

   infoi'med 
  me 
  that 
  he 
  had 
  heard 
  it 
  once, 
  and 
  that 
  its 
  song 
  was 
  

   not 
  like 
  that 
  of 
  Rhoducant'iis. 
  Only 
  once 
  did 
  I 
  see 
  it 
  display 
  

   any 
  real 
  activity, 
  when 
  a 
  male 
  and 
  female 
  were 
  in 
  active 
  

   pursuit 
  of 
  one 
  another 
  amongst 
  the 
  sandal-trecs. 
  Its 
  beak 
  

   is 
  nearly 
  always 
  very 
  dirty, 
  with 
  a 
  brown 
  substance 
  adherent 
  

   to 
  it, 
  which 
  must 
  be 
  derived 
  from 
  the 
  sandal-nuts. 
  

  

  Of 
  the 
  Drepaaididce 
  the 
  rarest 
  species 
  was 
  Loxops 
  coccinea. 
  

   I 
  saw 
  only 
  the 
  adult 
  and 
  young 
  male, 
  and 
  these 
  were 
  mostly 
  

   feeding 
  on 
  insects 
  either 
  amongst 
  the 
  blossoms 
  of 
  the 
  alii 
  tree 
  

   or 
  on 
  the 
  foliage 
  of 
  the 
  acacias. 
  Their 
  habits 
  seemed 
  almost 
  

   identical 
  with 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  yellow 
  species 
  of 
  Himalione. 
  I 
  

   never 
  heard 
  any 
  proper 
  song, 
  nothing 
  more 
  than 
  a 
  squeaking 
  

   like 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  female 
  Hiinatione. 
  On 
  several 
  occasions 
  it 
  

   was 
  in 
  company 
  with 
  the 
  small 
  straight-billed 
  Himatione 
  ; 
  on 
  

   two 
  of 
  these 
  I 
  saw 
  it 
  pursue 
  the 
  latter 
  from 
  tree 
  to 
  tree, 
  and 
  

   on 
  another 
  the 
  Himatione 
  was 
  itself 
  the 
  aggressor. 
  On 
  one 
  

   of 
  these 
  occasions 
  I 
  shot 
  the 
  green 
  bird, 
  and 
  it 
  was 
  bevond 
  

   doubt 
  the 
  Hiinatione, 
  and 
  not 
  a 
  green 
  female 
  of 
  Loxops. 
  

   Loxops 
  is 
  apparently 
  confined 
  to 
  the 
  upper 
  forest. 
  

  

  Both 
  the 
  gr^en 
  species 
  of 
  Himalione 
  are 
  abundant 
  in 
  Koiui, 
  

   that 
  with 
  the 
  curved 
  bill 
  (//. 
  virens) 
  especially 
  so, 
  and 
  particu- 
  

   larly 
  in 
  the 
  higher 
  forest. 
  However, 
  it 
  ranges 
  down 
  in 
  some 
  

   numbers 
  even 
  as 
  low 
  as 
  1400 
  or 
  1500 
  feet. 
  ^Ihe 
  straight-billed 
  

   species^, 
  on 
  the 
  other 
  hand, 
  I 
  failed 
  to 
  notice 
  in 
  the 
  lower 
  forest, 
  

   though 
  it 
  was 
  common 
  enough 
  at 
  4000 
  feet, 
  nor 
  did 
  the 
  male 
  

   appear 
  to 
  assume 
  a 
  bright 
  yellow 
  plumage 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  other 
  

   species. 
  They 
  are 
  chiefly 
  insectivorous, 
  feeding 
  on 
  lepido- 
  

   pterous 
  larvse 
  and 
  other 
  insects, 
  but 
  the 
  curved-lnlled 
  species 
  

   is 
  in 
  places 
  very 
  paitial 
  to 
  the 
  lehva 
  flowers, 
  as 
  on 
  Oahu. 
  On 
  

   the 
  rough 
  lava, 
  on 
  which 
  this 
  tree 
  grows 
  abundantly, 
  at 
  the 
  

   foot 
  of 
  the 
  Hualalai, 
  where 
  the 
  moiintain 
  rises 
  suddenly 
  from 
  

  

  * 
  //. 
  ijicnni, 
  S. 
  I'l. 
  ^^■ilsMll, 
  Ann. 
  »'v 
  Miti^-. 
  ;<. 
  ILscr. 
  li, 
  \ 
  ii. 
  p. 
  -JHO 
  ( 
  ISIM 
  ). 
  

  

  