AVIFAUNA OF LAYS AN, ETC. 



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17. OREOMYZ A MACULATA (Cab.). 



Himatione maculata, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 100 (<J and ? jun., Oahu) (1850); Wils. Ibis, 1890, p. 186 

 (-fairly common in the district of Halemanu, Oahu") J Stejn. Proc. U.S. Nat, Mus. 1887, p. 94 

 (« apparently quite distinct from both H. virens and H. chloris ")• 



" Included in the synonymy of Himatione sanguined as « Juv." by Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Is. Pac. Oc. p. 9, 

 and Hand-1. i. p. 113, 18G9 j and in the synonymy of Himatione virens by Sharpe, Cat. B. x. p. 9, 1885.) 

 Viridonia maculata, Eothsch. B. O. C. L p. lvii (1893) ; id. Ibis, 1893, p. 571 (reprint). (When I first received 

 a few specimens of this bird the powerful beak of the adult males induced me to include it in my genus 

 Viridonia ; but as Palmer has since brought home a fine series in all stages of plumage, I feci sure that 

 it cannot possibly be removed from the straight-billed Himationes, which I have united under Stejneger's 

 name Oreomyza, and that it is not a Viridonia) 



Adult male. Forehead, a very conspicuous superciliary stripe, chin, cheeks, ear-coverts, throat, 

 and breast golden yellow. Rest of the upper parts olive-green. Wings and tail-feathers 

 deep blackish brown, with olive-green edges. Big loral spot dusky ; broad hue from the 

 eye to the hind neck dusky olive-green, making the superciliary line very conspicuous. 

 Underparts from the breast downwards yellow, more whitish on the middle of the lower 

 abdomen ; sides of breast and flanks strongly washed with olive-green. Under wing- 

 coverts whitish, washed with olive-yellow. " Iris dark brown. Upper mandible blackish 

 brown, tip horny grey ; lower mandible, base whitish, greyish brown towards the tip. 

 Toes and tarsi grey ; soles flesh with yellow tinge." 



Adult female. Very different from the male. Forehead, superciliary stripe, and underparts 

 yellowish white; sides of breast and flanks washed with olive-grey. Above olive, the 

 greater wing-coverts with large greenish-white tips. " Iris dark brown. Upper mandible 

 dark brown, with a tinge of grey on the sides of the base ; lower mandible greyish 

 brown, pearly white at base. Tarsi and toes grey, toes a little lighter ; soles flesh-colour 

 and orange." 



Quite young birds and nestlings of both sexes are much like the females, hut are browner 

 above and of a mottled appearance, owing to the dusky edges of the feathers above 

 and below. The superciliary Hue is already marked in the youngest specimens. The 

 wing-spots in the young birds are more huffy than in adult females. 



Wilson (' Ibis,' 1890, p. 186) remarks that Cabanis's name "maculata" is inappropriate, 

 because the old birds were not spotted. However, O. maculata (Cab.) is the ouly species 

 of the genus Oreomyza in which the adult female has spotted wing-coverts. No 



