12 g AVIFAUNA OF LATSAN, ETC. 



small flocks of from two to sis individuals. It is also not uncommon, though less numerous, 

 in the districts of Hamakua and Hilo on the N.E. side, and in Puna on the east side. 



« It was never seen very low down, and inhabits the forests of from about 2500 to 

 5000 or 0000 feet. While Chlorodrepanis mrens generally searches for food among the 

 leaves this bird hunts for its food on the trunks and branches of the trees. 



"It is rather active, and has a clear, short, and somewhat sharp call-note, very much 

 like that of O. bairdi, somewbat like a shrill - chip.' It is easily distinguished from the 

 notes of Chlorodrepanis virens." 



According to Mr. Perkins, the notes of 0. mana and 0. bairdi arc rather less sharp than 



in the other species of the genus. 



It inhabits only the island of Hawaii. 



Mr. Henshaw writes me that he found it rare in Olaa, even in winter, occurring at 

 altitudes of about 1000 feet up to an indeterminate height. 



NOTE ON OREOMYZA PARVA. 



In Part II of this work I have included the Simatione parva of Wilson in the genus 

 Oreomyza together with O. maenlata, newtoni, montana, flammea, and bairdi. Formerly 

 maoulata, newtoni, and Montana were placed in the genus Simatione, 0. flammea most 

 erroneously in Loxops, and O. batrdi alone was placed in the genus Oreomyza. I am glad 

 to see that I am followed by Perkins, Wilson, and other authorities on Sandwich-Islands 

 birds in my arrangement, except that Perkins has created a new genus for Oreomyza parva, 

 which he calls Bothschildia (« Aves Hawaiienses,' part vii.). Apart from the fact that 

 the generic term Bothsehildia has already been employed for a genus of moths, I cannot 

 see the necessity for this genus. The bill of Oreomyza parva is so little curved and so 

 much straigbter than in lErnaiione and Chlorodrepanis that it will at once be placed 

 with Oreomyza. The nostrils are not more bare than in several Oreornyza, and the 

 structure of the wing seems rather to point to Oreomyza than to Simatione. Tims there 

 arc no outward characters to separate it generally ; and there remains only the structure 

 of the tongue, alluded to by Mr. Perkins, and the fact that 0. parva is, according to 

 Mr Perkins, more a honey-sucker than Oreomyza. If all these observations are correct, 

 they would, I should say, tend more to uniting the two genera Chlorodrepanis and Oreomyza 

 than to the erection of a new genus. 



[Oreomyza newtoni (anted, Pt. II. p. 115) is described and figured, under the name of 

 Simatione newtoni, in part iv. (1890) of the ' Aves Hawaiienses.'] 



