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46. CH^TOPTILA ANGUSTIPLUMA (Peak). 



Entomiza ? angustipluma, Peale, U.S. Expl. Exp., Birds, p. 147, pi. xl. fig. 2 (1848) (Hawaii). 



Anthochara? angustipluma, Hartl. Arch. f. Naturg. 1852, i. p. 131 J Gray, Cat. B. Trop. hi. p. 13 (" Society 



Isl. [Hawaii or Owyhee] 

 Mohoa angustipluma, Cass. Proc. Acad. Philad. 1855, p. 440. 



Moho angustipluma, Cass. U.S. Expl. Exp., Mamm. & Orn. p. 168, pi. xi. fig. 1 (1858) (Hawaii: specimen in 



Mus. Washington); Dole, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. 1869 (xii.), p. 296 (wooded region, Hawaii: specimen 



in Smiths. Inst.) ; id. Hawaiian Alman. 1879, p. 47. 

 Chattoptila angustipluma, Gray, Hand-1. i. p. 159 (1869) ; Scl. Ibis, 1871, pp. 358, 360 ; id. Ibis, 1879, p. 92 ; 



Wilson & Evans, Aves Hawaiiens. pt. ii. (1891) j Gadow, in Aves Hawaiiens. pt. ii. p. 10 (pterylosis etc.; 



is a Meliphagine bird). 



(No mention whatever is made of this bird in Vol. ix. of the ' Catalogue of Birds/) 



Top of the head dark brown, mottled with light grey and yellowish, the feathers being pale 

 greyish and bordered and tipped with brown, also with some yellow feathers at the tip. 

 Nape and hind-neck rich citron-yellow, streaked with dark brown and with lighter lines 

 of a brownish grey, the yellow tips having become very large here. Interscapular region 

 and upper back dark olive-brown, with yellowish -white elongated spots, each feather 

 being deep brown with a greyish base ; a lighter shaft-line and a raindrop-like yellowish 

 spot at the tip. Lower back and rump olive-brown with a faint rufous tinge ; upper 

 tail-coverts olive-brown with a greenish tinge. Quills dark brown, with the outer webs 

 margined with pale brown and with greenish towards the base ; secondaries with the 

 green margins reaching along the whole feather, and with very small pale tips. Wing- 

 coverts dark brown, Bectrices dark olive-brown, broadly margined with yellowish green 

 on the outer webs and with obsolete pale tips. Lores blackish. Eyelids, a broad stripe 

 from the under mandible to the ear-coverts, ear-coverts, and feathers behind the eye 

 black. A very narrow obsolete blackish line from the under mandible to the neck. .V 

 spot of feathers under the eye greyish. Chin and throat greyish yellow, each feather 

 with the black shaft elongated into a long hair-like bristle. Breast greyish, striped with 

 brown, each feather being greyish with brown borders. Abdomen of the same colour, 

 but much more distinctly and boldly striped. Flanks and anal region washed with 

 rufous. Under tail-coverts pale rufous, whitish along the shaft. Under wing-coverts 

 pale brown. Bill blackish ; feet and claws dark brown. Total length nearly 13 inches, 

 culmen 155, wing 5'65, tail G 3, lateral rectrices 3*7, tarsus 1G, middle toe with claw 1/3, 

 hind toe without claw 0*6, claw of hind toe 0*5. 



(Description from a very good specimen in my Museum, which I received in exchange from 

 the " Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, in Honolulu.") 



