128 , HAWAIIAN BIRDS. 



Description. — Adult. Mantle dark gray; bill yellow with a crimson 

 spot near end of lower mandible; scapulars and secondaries broadly 

 tipped with white. In winter, head and neck broadly streaked with . 

 brown. . Length about 20-23 inches. 



LIST OF BIRDS INTRODUCED INTO THE ISLANDS.. 



For the sake of completeness a list of the birds that have been 

 purposely introduced into one or more of the islands of the group, 

 and that have become established, is appended. • For remarks 

 upon this subject more in extenso the reader is referred to a 

 paper by the author in the Hawaiian Annual for 1900. 



PLOCEID^. WEAVER BIRD FAMILY. 



Munia nisoria punctata (Temm.). Rice Bird. 



Originally introducedj-from. the Malayan Peninsula into Oahu, 

 but now apparently distributed over all the islands of the group 

 and abundant in most localities. Where there are no rice fields 

 the bird is harmless enough, but it is a nuisance in the rice- 

 patches and the cause of much loss to the planter. 



Description. — Adult. Above chocolate brown ; shafts of feathers white ;; 

 throat deep chestnut ; sides of body streaked. Length about 4.50. 



FRINGILLID^. FINCH AND SPARROW FAMILY. 



Passer domesticus Linn. European House Finch. 



Apparently this undesirable little pest (little in size but great 

 in its capacity for mischief) is chiefly, if not wholly, confined to 

 the island of Oahu, where it was first introduced. It is abundant 

 about Honolulu. By determined and sustained efifort it would 

 be possible to exterminate the species in Oahu before it has 

 secured a foothold in the other islands, and so to eliminate it as a 

 certain source of danger to the agriculturalist. The history of 

 this finch in America and the extent of the damage it inflicts are 

 too well known to need repetition here. 

 Description. — Adult male. Above brown, back streaked with black; 



