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11. HEMIGNATHUS OBSCURUS (Gm.). 



AKIALOA. 



Hook-billed Green Creeper, Lath. Gen. Synops. i. 2, p. 703, pi. xxxiii. fig. 1 (1782) ("Sandwich Islands in 

 general") (although, the bird is very poorly described, and even wrongly in some respects, the description 

 might be called recognizable, but the figure is abominable) ; id. Suppl. p. 126 (1787). 



" Akaiearooa, 1 ' King, Voy. Pacific Ocean, iii. p. 119 (1784). 



Certhia obscura, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 170 (1788) (ex Latham) j Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 281 (1790); Donndorff, 



Orn. Beytr. i. p. 621 (1794); Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. p. 227 (1812) ; Tiedemann, Anat. Naturgesch. d. 



Vog. ii. p. 430 (1814) j Gray & Griffith, An. Kingd., Avcs, vii. p. 358 (1829). 

 " UAkaicaroa," Vieill. Ois. Dores, ii. p. Ill, pi. liii. (1802) (fig. taken from specimen in the Leverian 



Museum, now in the Derby Museum at Liverpool) ; Less. Compl. Buffon, ix. p. 155 (1837). 

 Melithreptus obscurvs, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. xiv. p. 322 (1817) \ id. Enc. Meth. p. 601 (1823) ; Cuv. ftegne 



Anim. 2nd ed. i. p. 433 (1829). 

 Drepanis obscura, Tcmm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. lxxxvi (1820). 



Hook-billed Green Honexj-eater, Latham, Gen. Hist. iv. p. 192, pi. 71. fig. 1 (text and figure the same as in 

 Gen. Synopsis). 



u V Akaiearoa, Vieill. Ois. Dor. pi. 53 est la femelle d'Heorotaire rouge (Mellithreptus vestiarius) " Lesson, Tr. 

 d'Orn. p. 300 (1831). 



Vestiaria akaroa, Less. Bev. Zool. 1840, p. 268 (included amongst the synonyms of Drepanis coccinea, 



Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 96, 1847). 

 Hemignathus obscurus, Peale, U.S. Expl. Exp., B. p. 153 (1848) j Hartl. Arch. f. Naturg. 1852, ii. p. 110; 



Beichcnb. Handb. speciell. Orn., Tenuirostrcs, p. 312, pi. 591. fig. 4009 (1853) ; Cass. U.S. Expl. Exp. 



Orn. p. 178 (1858) ; Dole, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xii. p. 298 (1869) (partim) ; id. Hawaiian Almanac, 



1879, p. 45 ; Scl. Ibis, 1871, p. 360 ■ id. Ibis, 1879, p. 92 ; Sund. Tentamcn, p. 48 (1872) j Sharpe, Cat. B. 



x. p. 4 (1885) ("Sandwich Islands'') ; Wilson, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, iv. p. 400 (1889) ; id. 



Ibis, 1890, p. 189 ; id. & Evans, Aves Hawaiienses, pt. iii. text & fig. (first good figure of the species, 



synonymy, history, and description). 

 Drepanis {Vestiaria) coccinea $ , Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Is. Pac. Oc. p. 8 (in the synonymy of Drepanis {Vestiaria) 



coccinea) (1859); id. Hand-l.i. p. 113 (1869). 

 Hemignathus olivaceus, Perkins (nee Lafr.), Ibis, 1893, p. 108 ("the long-billed species, H. olivaceus \"). 



Adult male. Above all over of a beautiful bright yellowish olive-green, generally very little 

 darker on the top of the head. Loral spot blackish, above the eye and passing into the 

 colour of the back is an ill-defined more yellow superciliary line. Quills and tail deep 

 brown, bordered with olive-green on the outer webs. Below lighter than above, and 

 becoming more yellow on the lower abdomen. Under wing-coverts and axillaries buff, 



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