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BIRDS OF THE HAWAIIAN GROUP. 



Family MUSCICAP'ID^.— Fly-catchers. 

 Genus. 

 Bill broad, soft, rather flat, slightly hooked at the tip, and furnished with numer- 

 ous reftal bristles which reach beyond the middle of culmen; culmen keeled; wing 

 falling short of the end of the tail by about the length of the tarsus; wing longer than 

 the tail ; bill at base not as broad as the length of the hind toe without the claw ; the 

 second primary a half inch shorter than the third. Peculiar to the Hawaiian Islands. 



(Page 36.) Chasiem'pis. 



Genus CHASIEM'PIS Cabanis. 



FIG. I. C. SANDVICENSIS. 



a. Young of all species: Wing coverts spotted with tawny ochraceous ; throat 

 ochraceous ; base of lower mandible lighter without black or white on the throat. 



b. Browner above, ochraceous of throat and tail coverts deeper; head not 

 so ochraceous. (See description of adult C. sandvicensis.) 



bb. Lighter, more ochraceous above, throat and upper tail coverts rusty 

 ochraceous. (See description of adult C. gayi z.-x\A. C. sclateri?) 



aa. Adult oj all species : Wing coverts spotted with white ; black or white or 

 both on the throat ; lower mandible dark ; tail coverts white. 



C. Above bluish grey. Adult: Above uniform dark smoky grey; up- 

 per tail coverts pure white ; wing coverts blackish, with greater and lesser coverts 

 tipped with white forming two fairly distinct bars across the wing; quills blackish 

 with grayish fulvous edges tipped with white ; lores and superciliary stripe whitish or 

 buffy white ; centre of throat white surrounded by buffy and buffy grey feathers, form- 

 ing a more or less distinct perioral girdle ; sides of the body greyish white with wash of 

 rusty ; abdomen and under tail coverts white ; white on outer web of tail feathers narrow 

 and extending along the edge for the greater part of its length ; white tip about .35 broad. 

 Young: Deep tawny buff or ochraceous about the rump, head and neck; under tail 

 coverts tawny; wing bands rusty. Length 5.25-5.50, wing 2.55-2.95, tail 2.35-2.60, 

 culmen .45-50, depth of bill .16, width .22, tarsus .80-89, toe .65. Hab. Kauai. 

 PL XXVII., 6657, 9410. 63. C. scla'teri Ridgw. Apekepeke. 



CC. Above brownish. 



d. White tips to the outer tail feathers, usually longer than .50; 



white tip and outer edging of the secondaries neither wide nor prolonged. Adult: 



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