MELIPHA GID^. 5 7 



or brownish black with faint white shaft stripes on the mantle; upper tail coverts 

 rusty brown ; wing and tail feathers blackish brown ; throat and neck to chest black with 

 white shafts and bars ; under wing coverts mostly white ; thighs yellow ; breast uniform 

 with the back ; sides of the body less rusty brown than the upper tail coverts ; bill and 

 feet black. Female: Similar to male, but smaller. Young; Differing from the adult 

 in having the tibiae blackish instead of yellow, and with the greyish shaft stripe to the 

 feathers of back and breast indistinct or wanting. Length 7.50-9.00 (according to 

 tail), wing 3.70-4.00, tail 3.60-4.25, culmen 1.10-1.15, depth of bill .25, tarsus 1.25- 

 1.35, toe .95. Hab. Kauai. 

 PI. XXIX., 5463. HO. M. bracca'tus (Cassin). Oo aa. 



aa. With yellow pectoral tufts, and more or less white on the outer pair of 

 tail feathers. 



b. With elongated yellow ear tufts, uniform in color with the few yellow 

 feathers under the wing and the under tail coverts ; a faint edge of whitish on the outer 

 margin of the outer pair of tail feathers ; remainder of tail uniform glossy black, like 

 the primaries ; crown and rump black ; back, chest and abdomen black, with conspicu- 

 ous white shafts to the feather ; throat black ; bill and feet black ; central tail feathers 

 with weak shafts; long and plume-like. Female similar (?). Length about 11.00, 

 wing 4.55-4.75, tail 5.00-6.25, culmen 1.32, depth of bill .30, tarsus i. 50-1. 55, toe 1.05. 



Hab. Molokai. 



III. M. bish'opi (Roths.). 



bb. Without elongated yellow ear tufts ; tail with prominent white tips to 

 the outer feathers. 



C. With only the two outer tail feathers with white tips ; head, rump, 

 back, wing coverts and lower parts deep black with some gloss ; upper mantle, lower 

 part of the abdomen and inner edge of secondaries inclined to umber brown ; tufts 

 under the wings and under tail coverts bright golden yellow; primaries and tail 

 feathers black; bill and feet black. Female: Similar, but smaller. Young: With no 

 yellow beneath the wings. Length S 12.50-10.50 ? , wing 4.85-4.90, tail 7.50, culmen 

 1. 15, depth of bill .25, tarsus 1.40, toe i.oo. Hab. Hawaii. 

 PI. XXIX., 5457. 113. M. nob'ilis (Merrem.). Oo. 



CC. All the tail feathers, except the middle pair, tipped with white. 

 General color sooty black ; tail brown, all tipped as above ; centre pair somewhat nar- 

 rower than the others and gradually diminishing to the apical third of their length 

 into fine hair-like, or filamentous, upturned points; axillae or under surface of the 

 shoulder white; flanks and under tail coverts bright yellow; bill and legs black. 

 Total length 12 inches, bill i^^, wing 434, tail 6^, tarsus -l]^ (Gould). Hab. Oahu; 

 rare or extinct. (No specimen in the Museum.) 



113. M. apicalis Gould. Yellow-tufted Honey-eater. 

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