132 HAWAIIAN BIRDS. 



bird may, perhaps, be checked, though not without much expense, 

 but its extermination is practically impossible. 



The lesson of its introduction into the Islands is an easy one to 

 read, and should be profited by. 



Description. — Adult. Above brown, as also breast and sides; head and 

 neck blackish; a bare patch of yellow behind eye; wing barred with 

 white; abdomen and under tail-coverts white; bill yellow. Length about 

 9-50. 



ALAUDID^. LARK FAMILY. 



Alauda arvensis Linn. Skylark. 



The European skylark was introduced into Oahu several years 

 since, and the experiment appears to have been a great success.* 

 The bird is now found in several parts of the island and seems to 

 be constantly increasing in numbers, though not very rapidly. I 

 believe that the bird is found in small numbers upon Maui. A 

 few have been brought from Oahu to the windward side of Ha- 

 waii, but their fate is at present unknown. 



Description. — Adult. General color brown streaked with black; chest 

 huffy, black streaked; outer tail-feathers nearly all white. Length about 

 7-50. 



PSITTACID^. PARROT FAMILY. 



Platycercus palliceps. . Blue-cheeked Parrot. 



The presence of this parrot in a wild state was detected by 

 Palmer in 1892 on Haleakala, Matii, and several specimens were 

 secured. In June of 1901 the writer found the bird to be by no 

 means uncommon in the forest on the slopes of Haleakala at an 



*The introduction of the skylark into these islands is to be credited to 

 Hon. A. S. Cleghorn, who imported them from New Zealand in .the latter 

 part of the year 1870. This initial lot was turned over to Judge Robt. 

 Moffitt, of Kahuku, Oahu, who liberated them on the high table land of 

 Leilehua and open mountain slopes. A subsequent colony ■ from and 

 through the same source was given to the late Albert Jaeger, who set 

 them free at Moiliili, or upper Waikiki. : , , , . : 



