HOOK-BILLED GREEN CREEPER. 



bent quite in the shape of a semicircle: the under 

 mandible shortest by a quarter of an inch: colour 

 of both brownish black: the nostrils covered by a 

 membrane: between the bill and eye is a streak of 

 brown : the plumage in general is olive-green^, 

 palest beneath, and somewhat inclined to yellow: 

 quills and tail dusky; the last even at the end, and 

 edged with yellow green: legs dusky brown; the 

 feathers just above the knee, or garter, white: the 

 hind toe pretty long. Inhabits the Sandwich 

 Islands in general, and is one of the birds whose 

 plumage the natives make use of in constructing . 

 their feathered garments; which having these 

 olive-green feathers intermixed with the beautiful 

 scarlet and yellow ones belonging to the next 

 species, and yeilow-tufted Bee-Eater, make some 

 of the most beautiful coverings of those islanders.*' 

 The mention of the Yeliow-Tufted Bee-Eater m 

 this description induces me to remark that, per- 

 haps that bird, as well as some others, might with 

 equal propriety rank under the present genus as in 

 that of Merops; and the circumstance of the. 

 yellow tuft under each wing should seem to imply 

 a strong alliance to the genus Certhia, in which, 

 that appendage is so frequently observed^ 



