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30. PALMERIA DOLEI (mis.). 



MAMO OF THE NATIVES ON MOLOKAI. 



Mmatione dolei, Wilson, P. Z. S. 1891, p. 166 (Maui : short description of a very young bird which did not 



show the striking peculiarities of the adult bird). 

 Palmeria mirabilis, Rothschild, Ibis, 1893, p. 113 (Maui: genus Palmeria established) ; id. Bull. B. O. C. i. 



p. xvi (Dee. 1892) (specimens exhibited). 

 Palmeria dolei, Rothschild, Bull. B. O. C. iii. p. ix (Nov. 1893) [P. mirabilis identified with H. dolei) ; id. Bull. 



B O C iii. p. xxv (Feb. 1891) (corrected the previous mistake that P. dolei was a Melphagim bird, 



concluding that it belongs to the Drepamd* : see reprints, Ibis, 1893, p. 249; 1894, pp. 121, 301) ; 



Wilson & Evans, Aves Hawaii, part v. (1894) (plate and text, and note on systematic position by 



Dr. Gadow). 



Adult male. Forehead with a heavy crest of greyish-white feathers, curled forward. Top 

 of head with crest-like narrow and pointed feathers of a dark grey colour and with 

 narrow and sometimes obsolete red tips, these feathers being grey along the middle, 

 black on their edges and tipped with red. The vermilion or bright flame-scarlet 

 tips increase in extent till on the neck they occupy half the feathers, a broad bright red 

 band being thus formed across the hind-neck. Feathers of the back blackish, with a 

 narrow whitish-grey shaft-line, which at the tip of the feather forms a roundish 

 subterminal spot, followed by a terminal spot of a dull yellowish pink. Feathers of the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts black, with the base greyish and a broad yellowish-red tip, 

 like Eidgway's orange-chrome (Nomencl. Col. pi. vii. fig. 13). Primary-coverts and 

 greater wing-coverts black, with small white tips. Smaller wing-coverts ashy white, 

 broadly tipped with red. Quills black ; primaries outwardly obsoletely edged with dull 

 red in the middle of the outer web, and at the tip with white. Secondaries black, broadly 

 tipped with white. Tail-feathers black, tipped with white. Lores dull blackish. Eyelids 

 and a stripe from above the eye to the nape dull scarlet. Ear-coverts, sides of the head 

 and neck, throat and breast leaden grey ; on the breast small dull-red tips to the feathers. 

 Abdomen like the rump. Thighs yellowish vermilion. Vent and under tail-coverts 

 yellowish grey. Under wing-coverts ashy, washed with red near the outer margin of 

 the wing. Iris hazel. Bill and feet black. 



Adult female. Exactly similar in colour to the male. 



There are some slight variations in colour. They do not seem due to sex or age, nor is there 

 any constant difference between specimens from Maui and Molokai ; but some specimens 

 have no white tips, or only obsolete ones, to the rectrices. Sometimes all the secondaries, 



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