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ISLAND LIFE. 
[part ii. 
Coming now to the Passeres, or true perching birds, we find 
sixteen species, all peculiar, belonging to ten genera, all but one 
of which are also peculiar. The following is a list of these 
extremely interesting birds : — 
I. Muscicapid.® (Flycatchers). 
1. Chasiempis sandvichensis. 
2. Pkceornis obscura. 
II. MELiPHAGiDiE (Honeysuckers.) 
3. Mohoa nobilis. 
4. „ braccata. 
5. ,, apicalis. 
6. Chcetoptila angustipluma. 
III. ‘Drepantdid^e. 
7. Drepanis coccinea. 
8. „ rosea. 
9. „ flava. 
10. „ sanguinea. 
Drepanididse — continued. 
11. Hemignathus olivaceus. 
12. „ obscurus. 
13. „ lucidus. 
14. Loxops coccinea. 
15. ,, aurea. 
16. Loxioides bailloni. 
1 7. Psittirostra psittacea. 
18. Fringilla anna (recently de- 
scribed, perhaps belongs also 
to this group). 
IV. Corvids (Crows). 
19. Corvus hawaiensis. 
Taking the above in the order here given, we have, first, two 
peculiar genera of flycatchers, a family confined to the Old 
World, but extending over the Pacific as far as the Marquesas 
Islands. Next we have two peculiar genera (with four species) 
of honeysuckers, a family confined to the Australian region, and 
also ranging over all the Pacific Islands to the Marquesas. We 
now come to the most important group of birds in the Sandwich 
Islands, comprising five peculiar genera, and eleven or twelve 
species, which are believed to form a peculiar family allied to the 
Oriental flower-peckers (Diceidse), and perhaps remotely to the 
American greenlets (Vireonidse), or tanagers (Tanagridse). They 
possess singularly varied beaks, some having this organ much 
thickened like those of finches, to which family some of 
them have been supposed to belong. In any case they form a 
most peculiar group, and cannot be associated with any other 
known birds. The last species, and the only one not belonging 
to a peculiar genus, is the Hawaiian crow, belonging to the almost 
universally distributed genus Corvus. 
On the whole, the affinities of these birds are, as might be 
