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CIRIDOPS WILSON. 



Ciridops Wilson, Nature 1892, p. 469. 



HOUGH formerly supposed to belong to the Fringillidae, it is now 



JL generally acknowledged to belong to the family Drepanidae, a peculiar 

 family of different forms restricted in its distribution to the Hawaiian 

 Islands. The genus Ciridops seems to stand nearest to Loxops, from which, 

 however, it is easily distinguished by the form of the bill, the pattern of 

 colouration, stronger feet, and the structure of its plumage, which is somewhat 

 stiff and scanty, while it is soft and rich in Loxops. The feathers of the 

 crown and throat are pointed. 



We only know one species belonging to this genus. 



Fringilla anna Dole, Hawaiian Almanac 1879, p. 49 (Hawaii) ; reprint in Ibis 1880. 



Ciridops anna Wilson & Evans, Aves Hawaienses, Part IV, text and plate ; Rothschild, 

 Avifauna of Laysan, p. 183. 



HE " Ulaaihawane " of the natives of Hawaii is one of the rarest birds 



X known, only three specimens being on record — one, the type, in the 

 Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Honolulu, and two in my collection. 

 One of these was brought home by Mr. Scott Wilson, who obtained it from 

 Mr. Bishop in Honolulu, the other was shot by a native for my former 

 collector, Mr. Palmer. No other examples have been obtained. As there are 

 still a good many hawane palms in elevated districts of Hawaii, there is, of 

 course, a possibility that a few examples still exist there ; but to all intents 

 and purposes Ciridops anna may be looked upon as extinct. 



CIRIDOPS ANNA (DOLE). 



(Plate 4, Fig. 4.) 



