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Above brown tinged with rufous ; upper tail coverts white ; forehead, lores and super- 

 ciliary stripe white ; wing coverts black with white spots ; primary coverts blackish; 

 primaries brown with rusty or buffy white edges ; feathers of the throat black tipped 

 with white, which is conspicuous in older birds ; chest and sides of the body reddish 

 brown, sometimes with white tips ; abdomen and under tail coverts pure white ; outer 

 edge of outer pair of tail feathers whitish for most of their length ; inner web white for 

 at least .40. Intermediate plumage : Forehead, lores and superciliary stripe rusty 

 white ; upper parts similar to adult, usually more rusty ; upper tail coverts white with 

 ochraceous tinge ; wings as above ; throat white, followed by a sooty black patch, and 

 this in turn by rufous brown as in adult ; rest of lower parts similar to adult. Young; 

 Tawny ochraceous brown above ; head tawny with darker centres to the feathers ; upper 

 tail coverts ochraceous ; primaries and tail feathers showing ochraceous ; wing coverts 

 brown tipped with ochraceous ; under parts rusty, buff and grey passing to whitish 

 grey on the abdomen. Length 5.50-5.75, wing 2.70-2.75, tail 2.40-2.65, culmen .47-.53, 

 depth of bill .20, width .18, tarsus .90, toe .63. Hab. Hawaii. 



PI. XXVII., 9923, 9924. 64. C. sandvicen'sis^'* (Gmel.). Hawaii ^Blepaio. 



dd. White tips to outer pair of tail feathers usually less than .50; 

 white tips and edgings to the secondaries quite pronounced ; above brownish (feathers 

 with bluish bases) washed with tawny ochraceous, especially aboiit the head; tail 

 coverts white ; wing coverts brownish black forming a well defined bar ; lesser coverts 

 tipped less regularly with white ; primaries brown with buff edges ; forehead rusty 

 ochraceous ; lores and about the eyes white ; chin white ; throat black with more or less 

 white tips (not so conspicuous as in sandvicensis) ; breast with some reddish brown ; ab- 

 domen white. InterTfiediate plumage : Similar to young, but showing brownish black 

 in the throat, and more or less white in the wing and tip of the tail. Young: Above, 

 tawny ochraceous brown, most ochraceous on the sides and back of the neck ; upper 

 tail coverts tawny ochraceous ; forehead, lores, chin, throat and chest tawny ochraceous; 

 abdomen white; under tail coverts tawny; wing coverts and primaries brown with 

 ochraceous edges, larger wing coverts sometimes showing white tips forming a less 

 conspicuous bar than in adults. Length 5.50-6.00, wing 2.55-2.65, tail 2.50-2.55, 

 culmen .40-.45, tarsus .95-1.00, toe .60. Hab. Oahu. 



PI. XXVII., 9252, 9258, 9255, 9259, 9260, 9407. 65. C. gayi Wii^son. Oahu Blepaio. 



Family STUR'NID^.— Starlings, Minas, Etc. 



Genus. 



Hind claw stronger than the claw of the middle toe ; in prepared skins the feet 

 reach almost to the end of the tail ; bill somewhat curved ; culmen less than the tarsus 

 in length (Page 38.) Acridothe'res. 



?*■ with the material at hand it is impOvS^ibk to separate thg two [onus which are supposed to occur on the island of Hawaii, 



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