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25. CHLORODREPANIS VIRENS (Om). 



" AMAKIHL" 



Olive-green Creeper, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. pt. 2, p. 740 (1782) (Sandwich Islands) (Leverian Museum). 



Certhia virens, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 179 (1788, ex Latham) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 290 (1787) ; Tiedem. Anat. & 



Naturg. Vog. ii. p. 431 (1814) (Ins. Amicis ! !). 

 L' Heorotaire vert olive, Audeb. & Vieill. Ois. Dor. pis. 67, 68 (1802). 



Melitreptus virens, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet, delist. Nat. xiv. p. 330 (1817) j Bonn. & Vieill. Enc. Metli. ii. 

 p. 607 (1823). 



Nectariniaflava, Bloxam in Byron's Voy. < Blonde/ p. 249 (1826). (Type in Brit. Mus. examined.) 

 Drepanis flava, J. E. Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 12 (1831) ; Dole, Proe. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 298 (1869) ; 



Scl. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 348; id. Report Birds ' Challenger ' Exped. p. 95 (1881) ; Dole, Haw. Alman. 



1879, p. 45. 



Phyllornis tonganensis (sic !), Less. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 165. 



Himatione virens, Sharpe, Cat. B. x. p. 9 (1885); Scott Wilson, Ibis, 1890, p. 185 (peculiar to Hawaii) j 

 Perkins, Ibis, 1893, p. 105 (abundant in Kona, Hawaii), p. 106 (nests) ; Newton, P. Z. S. 1897, p. 893 

 (eggs) ; Wilson & Evans, Av. Hawaii, pt. vi. text & plate (1896) ; iid. photograph of nest in pt. vii. 

 op. cit. (1899). 



[To this synonymy must also be referred a part of Gray's synonymy of his supposed female of Drepanis 

 sanguined, Cat. B. Trop. Is. p. 8 (1859).] 



Adult male. Above yellowish olive-green, lighter on the rump and upper tail-coverts, and 

 with a golden tinge on the forehead. Lores blackish. Quills blackish, bordered 

 outwardly with the colour of the back, inwardly lined with ashy. Rectrices blackish 

 brown, bordered with the colour of the back. Below green-yellow, with an olive-green 

 tinge. Under tail-coverts much paler. Under wing-coverts ashy white. Iris brown. 

 Maxilla dark horny brown, lighter at base. Mandible greyish, dark at tip. Eeet brown. 

 Total length 4*75 to 5 inches, wing 2*6 to 2*7, tail 1'8 to 1/88, tarsus 0*85, culmen 06 

 to 064 



Adult female. Nearly a dozen females before me, shot in August 1893 at Kona, Hawaii, are 

 all much less brilliant in colour, having a dark olive and greyish tinge above, and the 

 underparts paler and somewhat cloudy ; but it is quite possible that not any of them 

 are quite adult, for one female (if rightly sexed) from the same place is exactly like the 

 adult males. 



Young birds have the upperside with an olive and a grey tinge, the underparts clouded with 

 dusky. The wing has two, not always very regular, cross-bars, formed by the olive-buff 

 tips to the greater series of wing-coverts. 



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