AVIFAUNA OF LATSAN, ETC. 



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5. CHASIEMPIS SANDWICHENSIS (Gm.). 



ELEPAIO OF HAWAII. 



Sandwich Flycatcher, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. p. 344 (1783) (Sandwich Islands, in coll. Sir Joseph Banks) ; id. 

 Hist. B. vi. p. 211 (18.23). 



Spotted-winged Flycatcher, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. p. 345 (1783) (Sandwich Islands, Mus. Lev.) ; id. Hist. B. vi. 

 p. 212 (1823). 



Muscicapa sandwichensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 945 (1788) (ex Latham) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 263 (1847). 

 Muscicapa sanduicensis, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 479 (1790). 



Muscicapa maculata, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 945 (1788) (ex Latham) (nee Muscicapa maculata, P. S. Midler, 

 1776) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 480 (1790) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 263 (1847) ; Dole, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. 

 Hist. xii. p. 299 (copy of Gmclin's diagn. and remark "This is perhaps an uncertain species"); id. 

 Hawaiian Almanac, 1879, p. 48. 



Cnipolegus sp. 1238, Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 203 (1862). 



Eopsaltria (Chasiempis) sandwichensis, Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Is. p. 21 (1859); id. Hand-1. i. p. 390 (1869); 



Dole, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. II. 1869, p. 300; id. Hawaiian Almanac, 1879, p. 48. 

 Eopsaltria (Chasicmpis) maculata, Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Is. Pac. Oc. p. 22 (1859) ; id. Hand-1. i. p. 390 (1869). 

 Chasiempis sandvicensis, Scl. Ibis, 1871, p. 360; id. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 346 (recorded from Hilo, Hawaii) ; id. 



Rep. Voy. ' Challenger/ Zool. ii. pt. viii. p. 94 (1887) (Hilo, Hawaii); Sharpe, Cat. B. iv. p. 232 (1879). 

 Chasiempis sandwichensis, Finsch & Hartl. Orn. Centralpolynes. p. xxxiv ; Scl. Ibis, 1885, p. 18, pi. i.; Stejn. 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1887, p. 89; Scl. & Saund. Ibis, 1888, p. 143; Wils. P. Z. S. 1891, p. 166; 



Perkins, Ibis, 1893, p. 109. 



Chasiempis ridgwayi, Stejn. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1887, p. 88 (based on fig. 1, Ibis, 1885, pi. L, 

 which is drawn from a specimen from Hawaii) ; Berl. & Levcrk. Ornis, vi. p. 23 (1890) (united with 

 the species from Oahu) ; Wils. P. Z. S. 1891, pp. 164, 165, 166; Rothsch. Bull. B. O. C. i. p. lv (1893) ; 

 id. Ibis, 1893, p. 570. 



Chasiempis ihidis, Stejn. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1887, p. 88 (based on fig. 2 in Ibis, 1885, pi. i., which is that 

 of a young bird) ; Scl. & Saund. Ibis, 1888, p. 143 (criticism) ; Berl. & Leverk. Ornis, vi. pp. 2-4 

 (1890) (united with the form from Oahu) ; Wils. P. Z. S. 1891, p. 166 (stated to be from Oahu, but the 

 young bird in the British Museum, from which the figure in Ibis, 1885, pi. i. tig. 2, is taken, had no exact 

 locality, and after having compared it with my series from the different islands, I find it agrees best 

 with the young Hawaiian bird, so there is no doubt it really came from Hawaii). 



Final plumage of adult birds. Forehead, lores, and superciliary stripe white, more or less 

 spotted, the bases of the feathers being black. Above from the head to the hack dark 

 olive-brown ("bistre" in Ridgway, Nomencl. Colors, pi. iii. fig. 6), spotted with Avhite on 

 the hind neck and lower back. Hump and upper tail-cov r erts pure white, base of the 

 feathers black. "Wing-coverts (except primary-coverts) and inner secondaries black, 



