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and for this reason : When the old natives used to go up into the forest to get wood 

 for their canoes, when they had felled their tree the Mepaio would come down to 

 it. If it began to peck it was a bad sign, as the wood was no good, being unsound ; 

 if, on the contrary, without pecking, it called out ' Ono ka ia,' ' Sweet the fish,' the 

 timber was sound.' The names Mepaio and Ono ka ia (pronounced bnbkaia) are 

 both creditable word-imitations of the cry of Chasiempis under various emotions, here 

 presumably of disgust." 



The range of the Chasiempis found on Hawaii is from the lower forest-region at 

 about 1400 feet to over 5000, and prohably a good deal higher, as Mr. Perkins says 

 " to the limits of proper forest on Mauna Loa and also high up Hualalai." 



The members of this genus occasionally breed before assuming the adult plumage. 



Description. — Adult male. Above brown with a tinge of rufous, the forehead and 

 superciliary streak decidedly redder. A few of the inner secondaries have white inner 

 margins, the lateral rectrices have broad white tips ; the rump is white, as are the tips 

 of many of the wing-coverts, giving an appearance of spots. The throat is black, 

 with white tips to the feathers of the lower portion, which extend to the sides of the 

 neck; the breast is rich yellowish-brown, the middle of the abdomen white. The bill, 

 which is much larger than in the other species, is black, as are the feet. 



Adult female. The forehead, superciliary stripe, and throat are nearly white, with 

 very little black on the latter, below which is a brown crescent. The whole plumage 

 is browner than in the male. 



The young, which vary considerably, have rufous rump and wing-spots, being almost 

 uniform dingy white below. 



Dimensions. — Total length 5 - 5 inches, wing 3, tail 2-75, tarsus 1, culmen -44. 



The synonyms of the supposed species Chasiempis maculata are as follows : — 



" Spotted- winged Flycatcher/' Latham, Gen. Synops. hi. p. 345 (1783). 



Muscicapa maculata, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 945 (1788) ' ; Latham, Ind. On. ii. p. 480 (1790) ; 



DonndorfF, Orn. Beytr. ii. p. 593 (1795) ; Tiedemann, Anat. und Naturgesch. Vog. ii. p. 429 



(1814) ; Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool. x. p. 390 (1817); Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxi. 



p. 473 (1818) ; id. Encycl. Method, p. 815 (1823) ; G. R. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 263 (1846) ; 



Dole, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. 1869, p. 299; id. Hawaiian Alman. 1879, p. 48; Sclater, Ibis, 



1871, p. 359. 

 " Gobe-mouche brun des iles Sandwich" (sp. 3), Virey (Sonnini), Hist. Nat. Buffon, Ois. xiv. 



p. 173 (1802). 

 ? Eopsaltria (Chasiempsis) maculata, G. R. Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Isl. p. 22 (1859) 2 . 

 ? Eopsaltria {Chasiempis) maculata, G. R. Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 390 (1869) 2 . 



1 Nee Muscicapa maculata, P. L. S. Midler, Natursyst. Anhang, p. 169 (1776). 



- For the reasons assigned under the heading of ft gayi these references must be considered doubtful. 



