HIMATIONE WILSONI. 



Himatione chloris, S. B. Wilson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1889, p. 447 ; id. Ibis, 1890, p. 185 (partim). 

 Himatione wilsoni, Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, i. p. xlii (1893). 



Of this species, peculiar to Maui, the habits are at present undescribed, though they 

 are doubtless similar to those of its congeners, for which special reference may be made 

 to H. virens. 



Description. — Above yellowish green, below bright yellow with an inclination to 

 orange ; the superciliary streak is of the same yellow tint, the lores and a very narrow 

 frontal line being black. 



Dimensions. — Total length 4*6 inches, wing 2*45, tail 1*65, tarsus *8, culmen '55. 



The female is greyer above, and paler in the yellow portions. 



Mr. Rothschild says : — " Similar to H. stejnegeri of Kauai, but smaller, the beak 

 considerably less and straighter, in this respect resembling H. virens of Hawaii." For 

 my own part I have considered this bird indistinguishable from H. chloris. 



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