1889.] MR. WILSON ON NEW SPECIES OF HAWAIIAN BIRDS. 445 
6. Descriptions of some new Species of Sandwich-Island 
Birds. By Scorr Wutson. 
[Received November 2, 1889.] 
CHRYSOMITRIDOPS’, gen. nov. 
Bill moderate, conical and sharp at the tip, with culmen nearly 
straight and tomia slightly curved ; nasal membrane very small and 
nearly covered with feathers. Wing moderate: first primary 
wanting; third and fourth nearly equal, and rather longer than the 
second and fifth; secondaries slightly mucronate at the tip. Tail 
moderate, forked, and rectrices acuminate. Feet slender, claws much 
curved. 
CHRYSOMITRIDOPS CZ,RULEIROSTRIS, Sp. n. 
Male. Bill light prussian blue, darker on maxilla. Lores black, 
meeting below the chin and in front, where the black passes into 
olive and is succeeded by an ill-defined coronal patch of gamboge- 
yellow, gradually shading into yellowish-olive, which extends over the 
whole surface of the sides of the head, neck and mantle, back, and 
rump, but is rather brighter on the last ; lower surface gamboge- 
yellow, brightest on the throat, and shading into olive on the flanks. 
’ Wing-lining primrose-yellow, passing into white. Wing and tail- 
quills blackish brown, margined outwardly by olive and the former 
inwardly by greyish white, while the middle pair of the latter have 
most of the inner web dusky olive; irides dark hazel; feet bluish 
black. 
Obs. The bill is certainly stouter than that of Lovops, but less 
powerful and straighter than that of Oreomyza, and recalls, as does 
the general appearance of the bird, that of Chrysomitris. 
At present it seems doubtful whether this generic form should be 
assigned to the Finches or to the Honey-eaters; the slightly covered 
nostrils indicate the latter, but the mucronate tips of the secondary 
quills and, above all, the Siskin-like song seem to show a Fringilline 
affinity. 
Dimensions. Total length 43 inches, wing 23, tail 2, eulmen -4, 
tarsus *75. 
Hab. Kauai. 
Loxoprs FLAMMEA, sp. n. 
Male. Front and sides of the head pure scarlet; top of the head 
and back brownish scarlet, brightening into nearly pure scarlet on 
the rump; chin, throat, and lower surface generally pure scarlet, but 
paler in hue, brightening, however, on the flanks ; rectrices blackish 
brown edged with brownish scarlet ; wing-lining pale scarlet. Bill 
and legs light pinkish brown. 
Female. Top of the head hair-brown, but each feather brownish 
scarlet at the base, and the shaft of those towards the back of the 
1 Chrysomitridis faciem habens. 
