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  Bulletin 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  

  

  ' 
  Plovers/ 
  p. 
  34!3, 
  and 
  James's 
  ' 
  New 
  List 
  of 
  Chilian 
  Birds/ 
  

   p. 
  11). 
  

  

  Mr. 
  ScLATER 
  also 
  exhibited 
  a 
  skin 
  of 
  a 
  rare 
  Pigeon 
  (Geo- 
  

   phaps 
  plumifera) 
  [c/. 
  Gould, 
  ^ 
  Birds 
  of 
  Australia/ 
  v. 
  pi. 
  69] 
  

   from 
  Northern 
  Queensland, 
  one 
  of 
  ten 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  

   received 
  alive 
  at 
  the 
  Zoological 
  Gardens, 
  Antwerp. 
  Mr. 
  

   Gould^s 
  tj'pe 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  was 
  for 
  many 
  years 
  unique, 
  but 
  

   more 
  recently 
  several 
  specimens 
  had 
  been 
  obtained 
  in 
  North- 
  

   western 
  Australia 
  hy 
  the 
  late 
  Mr. 
  T. 
  H 
  . 
  Bowyer-Bower, 
  and 
  

   were 
  now 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum. 
  

  

  The 
  Hon. 
  Walter 
  Rothschild 
  exhibited 
  specimens 
  of 
  three 
  

   species 
  of 
  Chasiempis 
  from 
  the 
  Sandwich 
  Islands. 
  Of 
  all 
  of 
  

   these 
  species 
  he 
  had 
  received 
  examples 
  of 
  young 
  and 
  old 
  

   birds 
  from 
  Mr. 
  Henry 
  Palmer. 
  Mr. 
  Rothschild 
  pointed 
  out 
  

   that, 
  while 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  genera 
  of 
  Sandwich 
  Island 
  birds 
  

   were 
  distributed 
  all 
  over 
  the 
  archipelago, 
  the 
  genus 
  Chasi- 
  

   empis 
  was 
  confined 
  to 
  the 
  islands 
  of 
  Kauai, 
  Hawaii, 
  and 
  

   Oahu. 
  While 
  Mr. 
  Sclater 
  had 
  maintained 
  that 
  there 
  was 
  

   only 
  one 
  species 
  of 
  Chasiempis 
  in 
  the 
  Sandwich 
  Islands, 
  

   Dr. 
  Stejneger 
  had 
  recognized 
  no 
  less 
  than 
  five 
  different 
  

   forms, 
  this 
  result 
  being 
  attained 
  by 
  separating 
  the 
  rufous- 
  

   rumped 
  birds, 
  which 
  were 
  the 
  young 
  ones, 
  from 
  the 
  white- 
  

   rumped 
  birds, 
  which 
  were 
  the 
  adults. 
  Mr. 
  Rothschild 
  pointed 
  

   out 
  that 
  there 
  were 
  three 
  distinct 
  species, 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  Chasiempis 
  sclateri, 
  of 
  Ridgway, 
  from 
  Kauai 
  ; 
  C. 
  ridgwayi, 
  

   Stejneger, 
  from 
  Hawaii 
  ; 
  and 
  C. 
  sandwichensis 
  (Gmelin), 
  

   from 
  Oahu. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Rothschild 
  also 
  exhibited 
  and 
  described 
  examples 
  of 
  

   the 
  following 
  species 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  Loxops 
  wolstenholmei, 
  sp. 
  nov. 
  

  

  This 
  little 
  species 
  can 
  be 
  at 
  once 
  distinguished 
  from 
  L. 
  coc- 
  

   cinea 
  (Gm.), 
  and 
  L. 
  ochracea, 
  Rothsch., 
  by 
  its 
  smaller 
  size 
  

   and 
  the 
  dull 
  cinnabar- 
  red 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  surface. 
  The 
  rump 
  

   and 
  belly 
  are 
  also 
  cinnabar, 
  but 
  strongly 
  flushed 
  with 
  orange. 
  

  

  