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26. CHLORODREPANIS CHLORIS {Cab.). 



AMAKIHI OF OAHU. 



Himatione Moris, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 99 (1850) (Oahu) j Wilson, P. Z. S. 1899, p. 446, and Ibis, 1890, 

 p. 185 (partim) (Oahu, Lanai, Molokai, all called chloris, although some differences were stated between 

 specimens from the different islands) ; Wilson & Evans in Aves Hawaiicnsis, part vi. plate & text. 



Himatione flava, Reichenb. (nee Bloxam !) Handb. Spec. Orn. Scans, p. 255; Pelzeln, Journ. f. Orn. 1872, 

 p. 28 (Oahu). 



[Sharpe, see Cat. E. x. p. 9, and others before him never tried to distinguish between H. chloris and 

 H. vb'cns.] 



[Part of the synonymy of Gray's supposed females of Drepanis {Himatione) sangitinea, Cat. B. Trop. Is. p. 8, 

 is referable to H. chloris.] 



Adult male. Above bright yellow-green or green-yellow, a shade darker on the head and a 

 shade lighter on the rump and upper tail-coverts. Feathers round the bill, those 

 immediately above it on the forehead, as well as lores and chin blackish. A narrow 

 yellow line from the forehead to the upper part of the eye, but not produced through the 

 eye. Quills deep brown, outwardly margined with yellowish green, inwardly with pale 

 ashy. Under wing-coverts white, washed with yellow on the margins. Underparts 

 almost pure dark yellow, brightest on the breast, paler on the middle of the lower 

 abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts. Sides of the head dark yellow, with a strong 

 wash of greenish olive. A dark shade runs right and left along the throat, thus leaving 

 the middle of the throat bright yellow by contrast. Sides of the body washed with 

 olive. liectrices dark brown, outwardly bordered with yellowish green. Bill : maxilla 

 blackish brown, lighter at base ; mandible lighter, only deep brown towards the tip. 

 Tarsi and toes greyish brown ; soles flesh-colour. The irides are marked as " brown " 

 and " hazel." Total length marked about inches by the collector, as measured in the 

 flesh, but not exceeding, if reaching, inches in skins; wing 2'5S to 2 65, tail 1*75, 

 tarsus 0-8 to 0*85, culmen 0-55 to 0*65. 



Adult female. Quite different from the adult male. Above olive-grey with hardly any 

 greenish tint, washed with greenish olive on the rump and upper tail-coverts. A whitish 

 line from base of bill to eye. Below pale whitish ashy, very slightly washed with olive- 

 greenish. Quills and rectrices bordered with olive-greenish. Two rows of creamy-white 

 spots on the upper wing-coverts. Under wing-coverts whitish. Total length in the 

 flesh (collector's notes) about and 4|, in skins about 4J inches ; wing 2'4 to 2*45, 

 tail about T5, tarsus 0*75 to 0*8, culmen 55 to 0. 



