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LOXOPS COCCINEA RUFA BLOXAM. 



Fringilla rufa Bloxam, Voy. "Blonde" p. 250 (1826). 



Loxops wolstenholmei Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club I, p, LVI (1893-Oahu). 

 Loxops rufa Wilson, Aves Hawaiienses part VI, plate and text (1896) ; Rothschild, Avif. 

 of Laysan, etc., p. 177 (1900). 



HIS form of Loxops is only found on Oahu, where it is doubtless very 



J. rare now, if not already extinct. The last known specimen was shot 

 on April 20th, 1893, in the mountains of the Wailua district, on Oahu, 

 and is in my collection. This is the only specimen obtained by the efforts 

 of recent collectors, and, if any should still exist, we may suppose that their 

 fate is sealed. 



L. c. rufa differs from L. coccinea coccinea of Hawaii by its smaller 

 size and more brownish, somberer coloration. 



We know of specimens in the British Museum, including the type of 

 Bloxam's Fringilla rufa, in Liverpool, Philadelphia, Berlin, Berlepsch Castle, 

 Vienna and Tring. 



