DREPANIDIDAi. 



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Genus RHODACAN'THIS RoTHSCHr^D. 



FIG. 13. R. PALMERI. 



a. Head, throat and under parts throughout rich scarlet orange ; breast purer 

 orange tinge; under tail coverts and flanks showing some grey; mantle brown; rump 

 orange brown; tail and wing feathers brown, with some orange brown; wing and tail 

 feathers brown with orange brown edgings to the outer webs; bill bluish grey. 

 Female: Above, greenish olive with dark grey bases to the feathers ; more olive on the 

 rump and upper tail coverts ; tail and wing feathers with olive edges ; breast showing 

 grey as the under color, with yellowish olive edges, yellowest on chin and upper breast; 

 centre of the breast whitish with but faint yellowish wash; flanks greenish yellow. 

 Young: Similar to females; young males brighter below. Length about 7.50, wing 

 4.20-4.40, tail 2.90-3.00, culmen .80-.85, depth of bill .58-.61, tarsus 1.00-1.05, toe 

 1. 00. Hab. Hawaii. 

 PI. XXIX., 6603, 6601. 107. R. palm'eri Roths. 



aa. Head, neck and under parts generally apple yellow, brightest and richer 

 on the head and neck, and greener on the under parts; upper parts ashy green, becom- 

 ing bright green on the lower back, rump and upper tail coverts. Wings and tail dull 

 blackish brown, feathers externally margined with green ; bill blue-brown ; legs grey; 

 iris brown. Total length about 7.50, culmen .72, wings 3.80, tail 2.50, tarsus i.oo. 

 Adult female : Differs from the male in being much greener and duller in color, only 

 the forehead being yellow ; the crown similarly colored to the back ; under parts dull 

 yellowish green. Palmer obtained a small series in the district of Kona at the same 

 place where R. palmeri was first colledled. The smaller size and yellow head of the 

 adult male serves to distinguish this species very easily from the much larger R. palmeri 

 with its orange red head in the adult male. Neither Wilson nor Perkins met with this 

 bird (Rothschild in Part III., Avifauna of Laysan, etc.). Hab. Hawaii. 



108, R. flav'iceps Roths. 



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