1889.] MR. WILSON ON NEW SPECIES OF HAWAIIAN BIRDS. 445 



6. Descriptions of some new Species of Sandwich-Island 

 Birds. By Scott Wilson. 



[Eeceived NoTember 2, 1889.] 



Chrysomitridops \ gen. iiov. 



Bill moderate, conical and sharp at the tip, with culmen nearly 

 straight and toinia 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 shghtly mucronate at the tip. Tail 

 moderate, forked, and rectrices acuminate. Feet slender, claws much 

 curved. 



Chrysomitridops ceruleirostris, 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 Loxops, 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 4g inches, wing 2g, tail 2, culmen "4, 

 tarsus "75. 



Hab. Kauai. 



Loxops 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 CJirysomitridis faoiem habens. 



