AVIFAUNA OE LATSAN, ETC. 



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36. LOXOPS RUFA (Bloxam). 



ABAKAN E OE OAIIU. 



Fringilla rufa, Bloxam, Voy. ' Blonde/ p. 250 (1826) (types in the British Museum examined) j Gray, Zool. 

 Misc. p. 11 (1831). 



Linaria ? coccinea (errore !, non Fringilla coccinea, Gmelin, 1788), Gould, Voy. ' Sulphur/ Birds, p. 41, pi. xxii 

 (1843). 



Drepanis rufa, G. R. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 96 (3847). 



Loxops coccinea (errore, non Fringilla c. t Gmelin !), Cabanis, Archiv f. Naturg. 1847, p. 330 (genus Loxops 

 established, on specimens collected in Oahu by Deppe : specimens in Berlin Museum) ; Beichenow, 

 Vog. Zool. Garten, ii. p. 365 (1884) (" rothbraun"). 



Hypoloxias coccinea, Lichtenstein, Nomencl. p. 48 (1854) (only Deppe's skins from Oahu in Berlin). 



Loxops coccineus, Pelzeln, Journ. f. Orn. 1872, p. 29 (Enero, Oahu, Deppe). 



Loxops coccinea, Sharpc, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. x. pp. 49 (fig.), 50 (synonymy partim !). 



Loxops ivolstenholmei, Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. i. p. lvi (June 1893). 



Loxops rufa, Scott Wilson, Aves Ilawaiienses, part vi. (1896) (plate and text). 



Adult male (shot on Oahu by Wolstenholme ; type of L. ivolstenholmei). Above dark rufous 

 orange with a brownish wash, becoming lighter and brighter on the lower rump and 

 upper taii-coverts. Wings blackish brown, edged with greenish orange on the outer 

 webs and with pale ashy on the inner webs. Tail-feathers paler than the wings, and 

 edged witli bright orange on the outer webs. Underparts reddish orange, changing into 

 bright salmon-orange on the lower abdomen and under tail-coverts. Under wing-coverts 

 whitish grey, slightly washed with rusty brown. Iris dark hazel; maxilla whitish blue 

 with dark brown tip, mandible the same ; feet and toes black, soles light flesh-colour. 

 Palmer measured the type in the flesh as 4f inches ; in skin it measures nearly 1 inches. 

 AVing 22, tail 1*7, tarsus 0*74, culmen 0* 45. 



Besides this perfectly adult male, in my museum at Tring, I am aware of specimens of adult 

 males in the following collections : — 



Three in the British Museum, namely Bloxam's types and one from the Gould 

 Collection, probably the one figured in the ' Voyage of the Blonde.' 

 One in the Berlin Museum, collected by P. Deppe on Oahu. 

 One or more in Cassel, collected by Deppe on Oahu. 

 One in Count Berlepscu's collection, also from Deppe, collected on Oahu. 

 One in Vienna, collected also by Deppe on Oahu. 

 These males agree with the type in colour, but some are less bright, more broAvnish above 



