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BIRDS OF THE HAWAIIAN GROUP. 



body, both above and below, fine deep black; rump, upper tail coverts, under tail 



coverts, thighs, lesser wing coverts and margin of the wing fine rich yellow, "crocus 



yellow" (Wilson); primary coverts white; tail feathers blackish, showing a little dull 



white for .50 along the shaft of the outer pair; primaries black with the outer edge, for 



its distal third, white ; secondaries black tipped with white. Sexes and young: Length 



about 8.00, wing 4.00-4.15, tail 2.65-2.90, chord of culmen i. 62-1. 70, depth of bill .30, 



width .30, tarsus 1.15, toe .75. Hab. Hawaii. 



70. D. paci'fica (Gmel.). Mamo. 



Genus DRBPANORHAM'PHUS Rothschii^d. 



FIG. 2. D. FUNEREA. 



With the upper and lower parts fine deep black, with no yellow on the rump; 

 base of the upper mandible yellow or whitish; tail and inner edge of primaries deep 

 black ; outer edge of primaries smoky black at base, passing to whitish and forming a 

 white conspicuous patch. Female: Similar, but with a shorter bill. Length about 

 8.00, wing 3.90-4.00, tail 2.55-2.80, chord of culmen 1.85-2. 15, depth .32, tarsus i.io- 

 1.20, toe 1. 00. Hab. Molokai. 

 PI. XXVII., 6696. 71, D. fiine'rea^' (Newton). Perkins' Mamo. 



Gknus VBSTIA'RIA Fleming. 



FIG. 3. 



COCCINE.V. 



Bill curved ; about the same length as head ; bill and feet vermilion in life, dry- 

 ing whitish ; general color uniform scarlet vermilion including scapulars and lesser wing 



39 1 take pleasure in adopting the new generic name for D. funerea (Newton) proposed by the Hon. Walter Rothschild in his "Avifauna 

 of I<aysan, etc." (Part III., p. 163). While it is unfortunate that the single example of this genus could not have been left as a species of the 

 old and vfell known genus Drepanis, the fadts are the form differs from it sufficiently to warrant the change, 



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