192 HONEY-EATER. 



neck, and body green, with a gloss of violet on the head ; beneath, 

 as far as the breast, violet ; tail the same ; greater wing coverts and 

 quills, belly, and vent, pale brown ; legs brown; claws black. 



50.— HOOK-BILLED GREEN HONEY-EATER. 

 Pl. lxxi. — Fig. 1. 



Certhia obscura, Lid. Orn. i. 281. Gtn. Lin. i. 470. 

 L'Akaie aroa, Ois. Dor. ii. 87. pl. 53. 

 Heoro-taire, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxxxvi. 



Hook-billed green Creeper, Gen. Syn.n. 703. pl.33. Id. Sup. 126. Shaw's Zoo/. 

 viii. 227. 



LENGTH seven inches. Bill one inch and three quarters long, 

 bent quite in the shape of a semicircle ; the under mandible shorter 

 by a quarter of an inch ; nostrils covered by a membrane ; colour 

 brownish black ; tongue nearly as long as the bill, and fringed at 

 the end; between the bill and eye a streak of brownish black, 

 surrounding the latter; the plumage in general olive green, paler 

 beneath, and somewhat inclined to yellow ; quills and tail dusk}, 

 edged with yellow green; feathers just above the joint, or garter, 

 white ; legs brown ; hind toe rather long. 



Inhabits the Sandwich Islands, and is one of the kind whose 

 plumage the natives make use of, in fabricating their feathered gar- 

 ments; these feathers being intermixed with the scarlet ones belonging 

 to the next Species, and those of the Yellow-tufted, compose some 

 of the most beautiful coverings of the Islanders. 



