Dr. Finsch it was correctly referred {Hypoloxias being merely an equivalent of Loxops), 

 and, accordingly, it may be reasonably contended that justice to the perspicuity of this 

 distinguished ornithologist demands that his name should not be set aside. So far 

 as practice is concerned no confusion is likely to follow from maintaining the term 

 aurea in Dr. Finsch's sense ; and, as Mr. Eothschild was neither the discoverer nor the 

 first describer of the species, and could not have known except from my work what 

 the " Drepanis aurea " really was, there seems no need to treat his name for the Maui 

 bird otherwise than according to the strictest law, which to me does not appear to 

 require the adoption of his subsequently conferred designation of ochracea. 



Dimensions. — Total length 4*5 inches, wing 2-6, tail 1-9, tarsus -75, culmen *38. 



