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AVIFAUNA OF LAYS AN, ETC. 



Chmtoptila akgustipluma is evidently extinct. Nobody in the Sandwich Islands seems to 

 know anything about it, and its former native name is unknown. Besides the specimen in 

 my collection, we only know the type of the species in Washington, one in the Cambridge 

 Museum, from the same source as my example, and one in the Honolulu Museum. All these 

 specimens came from Hawaii. Bole quotes also Molokai as the habitat of this bird, but we 

 do not know why. All these specimens (except the type) were procured by Mills, who 

 according to Palmer's enquiries, collected them between the lower Volcano House and the 

 crater of Kilauea. 



Peale says (I. c.) :— « This rare species was obtained on the island of Hawaii. It is very 

 active and graceful in its motions, frequents the woody districts, and is disposed to be 

 musical, having most of the habits of a Meliphaga; they are generally found about those 

 trees which are in flower." 



Gray (Cat. 13. Tropical Islands) quotes as a doubtful synonym Moho atriceps, Lesson 

 (Traite d'Orn. p. 646), but hardly a word of the description can be supposed to refer to 

 Chatoptila angustiplwna, and the locality is unknown. 



