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male, and, although made seventy-five years ago, is in perfect 
preservation, except that its feet and legs have, at some time, 
been somewhat eaten by insects. 
Wilson and Evans in their Aves Hawaiiensis, 1890-1899 (p. 
''103" — the work is not paged) mention five specimens, all that 
were known to them, of A. apicalis — three in the British AIu- 
seum, one of which went by exchange to Rothschild's Tring 
Museum, and a pair collected by Deppe which are in Vienna. 
Rothschild's Extinct Birds, 1907, p. 27, enumerates the same 
five specimens, but says that Deppe's skins are in Berlin. 
Ours makes the sixth known example of A. apicalis, which is 
believed to have been confined to Oahu, and which has not been 
seen alive by a naturalist si^ce 1837. 
It is the only one in America, Dr. Chas. W. Richmond in- 
forming me that the United States National Museum does not 
possess any, and Air. Witmer Stone says that there is none in 
the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, although that 
institution had most of Cassin's Collection of birds. 
In the Museum of Comparative Zoology there is also a fine 
pair of Ciridops anna (Dole), one of the very rarest of Ha- 
waiian birds and certainly one of the most beautiful. 
The exact origin of these skins, of excellent make and in per- 
fect preservation. I have been unable to learn. They came to 
the museum with a few other Hawaiian birds — six skins of 
Acriilocerciis nobilis and several petrels and terns — and were 
catalogued by Dr. J. A. Allen in 1870; names for none but the 
Moheo being written on the labels or in the register by that 
naturalist. 
Ciridops anna was described by Judge Dole in 1879, and is 
supposed to be, or perhaps better to have been, confined to the 
Island of Hawaii. It was, until I unearthed our two skins, 
known by three male specimens only, one now in the Bishop 
Museum and two in Rothschild's Museum at Tring. The fe- 
male and young male were unknown. 
Our male. No. 10,995, is in full plumage, and very closely 
matches the exquisite plate in Wilson and Evans, Aves Ha- 
waiiensis. 
Our other specimen. No. 10,987, I take to be an adult female. 
Though a little smaller, it is exactly similar in proportions to 
the male, but is wholly different in color. It may be described 
as follows : — 
Forehead clothed in stiffened, pointed, semi-erect feathers as 
in the adult male. Top of head, nape, and sides of head cinna- 
mon washed with dull olive-yellow on forehead and with the 
lores and a narrow frontal band more dusky; cheeks with paler 
shaft-stripes to the feathers; lower back grayish cinnamon, 
gradually passing into the purer color of the head; rump and 
upper tail coverts olive-yellow; tail dusky, fringed with olive- 
yellow; primaries blackish, narrowly edged with dark olive- 
