99? 
Cocdnca, 
T^cata, 
Soui-man- 
g!f‘ 
ManiLlcn- 
Surionica. 
Sannia. 
J^cve: Hoi- 
iandiiX. 
BIRDS. PIGiE. 29. Gerthia. 
Scarlet ; wings and tail black. Hook-hilled red 
Inhabits Sandwich IJlands ; hardly 6 inches long. j 
Bill longer than the head, curved like a rcvmetar, whitiih 1 
and long claws black ill) j tail feat hen Snarly pointed; 
of the wings and roots of the throat-feathers white. 
Green, beneath and tail violet ; wjngs, belly and 
pale, brown. Sickle-billed 
Length inches ; Will dulky, ficklc-lliapcd ; head with a 
of violet ; greater wing-aivcrts and Iq^s pale brown ; 
black. 
• h 
Green, beneath yellow ifh ; rump olive; breaft brown ''"‘'a 
2 tranfverfe bars, the one blue the other bay; 'j, 
black. I'ioM ' 
Inhabits Maiagafcar ; 4 inches long. 
l^ilL legs and claws black ; tongue bifid at the tip, longct 
the bill. 
Female olive-brown, beneath inclining to yellov. 
Green vaiied with blue and violet, beneath olive-gf^'! 
neck barred with green, blue, violet and yell<’'!' 
wings brown Manllln^^' 
Inhabits Aluitiliz ; hardly 4 inches long. ,■ 
Between the fiou'ders 2 yellow fpots ; upper wing-ce'<t‘’^ ‘ 
brown. 
Greenifii-brown, beneath varied with grey ; rump yell<?'^' 
wings and tail blackilb. Tello-w-rumped^'' 
Inhzhws Bourbon IJland : 5 inches long. 
Bill and kgs black ; Jlanhs rufous. 
Olive ; crown inclining to violet ; fpot on the 
white ; wings and fubl'orked tail brown. r. 
r Mocklrtrl 
Inhabits New ZeaLiyid s yl inches long-; fips the rnoin 
fi oin the neffary of flow'eis ; voire very imitative. . 'Jt 
BiUdulky, nnjiriL- Urge, covered with a .membrane ; 
brorvn ; body dbove inclining to green, beneath to ycH^'w 
fecondaiy quill and tailfi'athers .pdged with olive ! 
dulky ; claws black, the hmd.Qne longer. 
. JSIacIc, beneath flreaked with white ; -eyebrows and 
near the ears white ; ijuill and tail-feathers edged "1 
yellow. New Holland^^ 
