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p. 249 (London, 1826, quarto), says that it is " TJlio" while M. Les- 

 son appears to have derived his generic designation from the same 

 native name, and makes it " Molw." These names are of no zoological 

 or other importance whatever, and are not worth mentioning, except 

 to show that there is no reliance whatever to be placed in them. The 

 other species, which, according to Mr. Peale, is also known to the 

 natives by the name of Oo, M. Lesson calls " Holio." We do not agree 

 with Mr. Peale in the supposition that this second species mentioned 

 by him is Certlda i^acifica, Gm. It is Molioa hraccata, Cassin, Proc. 

 Acad. Philadelphia, VII, p. 440 (1855), described by us from a speci- 

 men brought by Dr. Townsend, now in the Museum of the Philadel- 

 phia Academy. 



THE ROYAL TAX OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. 



2. Genus LEPTORNIS, Jac. et. Pmli. Zool. Voy. Astrolabe and Zelee, 



Ois. p. 85 (1853). 



1. Leptornis samoensis {Homh. and Jac). 



Merops samoensis, HoMB. et Jac. Ann. des Sci. Nat. Paris, 1841, p. 314. 

 Entomiza olivacea, Peale, Zool. U. S. Exp. Exp. Birds, p. 145 (1848). 

 Leptornis sylvestris, Jac. et PuCH. Zool. Voy. Ast. et Zel. Ois. p. 86 (1853), 



Voy. Ast. and Zel. Birds, Plate XVII, fig. 1. 



