166 ON A NEW SPECIES OF HIMATIONE. [Feb. 17, 



rump, flanks, and under tail-coverts bright 



tawny Ch. sclateri, Ridgw. 



c'. Breast, rump, and flanks lighter tawny than in 

 the preceding species ; under tail-coverts white, 

 very slightly tinged with tawny. Dimensions 



smaller than the preceding species Ch. ihidis, Stejn. 



[Ibis, 1885, pi. i. fig. 2.] 



It thus follows that there are, so far as is at present known, five 

 species of Chasiempis inhabiting the Sandwich Islands : — 



1. Ch. dolei, Stejneger. 1 |^ 



2. Ch. sclateri, Ridgway. J 



3. Ch. gayi,W\hon. 1 Qahu, 



4. Ch. ibidis, Stejneger. J 



5. Ch. ridgwayi, Stejneger. Hawaii. 



Dr. Stejneger inclines to the belief that there still remains a sixth 

 species, a form with tawny wing-markings, the Sandwich Flycatcher 

 of Latham {Ch. sandwichensis of Gmelin), the real habitat of which 

 may be one of the islands between Hawaii and Kauai, His reason 

 for this theory is that Latham's description of the Sandwich 

 Flycatcher, Ch. sandwichensis, which is plainly that of a species with 

 tawny wing-markings, does not agree in detail with that of either Ch. 

 sclateri or Ch. ibidis. In his letter to me he further says " that you 

 did not find it there (on Hawaii) may be due either to it having 

 become exterminated, or to a particular misfortune of yours in not 

 coming across it during your stay on that island." 



I have in my collection four specimens from Hawaii with tawny 

 wing-markings, but these I take to be immature examples of Ch. 

 ridgwayi. Dr. Stejneger, however, may be right, but this is a 

 question I hope will be satisfactorily solved by the time the part of 

 my * Birds of the Sandwich Islands ' including this genus appears. 



4. Description of a new Species of the Genus Himatione irom. 

 the Sandwich Islands. By Scotx B. Wilson, F.Z.S. 



[Eeceived January 31, 1891.] 



I herewith give a brief description of a new species of Himatione, 

 based on a single specimen which I obtained in the district of Kula 

 on the island of Maui, in July 1888. I may mention that I killed 

 it and an immature example of Himatione sanguinea at one shot. 

 I have named it after my friend Mr. Dole, whose name is so well 

 known amongst those ornithologists that have studied the Hawaiian 

 Avifauna. 



Himatione dolei, sp. nov. 



Crown of the head grey, shading into dull brown-pink, which is 

 tinged on the sides with dull red ; rest of the upper parts dusky brown 



