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Show 1889.] MR. W'lLSON ON NEW SPECIES OF HAWAIIAN BIRDS. 445 6. Descriptions of some new Species of Sandwich-Island Birds. By SCOTT WILSON. [Eeceived November 2, 1889.] CHRYSOMITRIDOPS l, gen. nov. Bill moderate, conical and sharp at the tip, with culmen nearly straight and tomia slightly curved ; nasal membrane very small and nearly covered with feathers. Wing moderate: first primary wanting; third and fourth nearly equal, and rather longer than the second and fifth ; secondaries slightly mucronate at the tip. Tail moderate, forked, and rectrices acuminate. Feet slender, claws much curved. CHRYSOMITRIDOPS CERULEIROSTRIS, sp. n. Male. Bill light prussian blue, darker on maxilla. Lores black, meeting below the chin and in front, where the black passes into olive and is succeeded by an ill-defined coronal patch of gamboge-yellow, gradually shading into yellowish-olive, which extends over the whole surface of the sides of the head, neck and mantle, back, and rump, but is rather brighter on the last; lower surface gamboge-yellow, brightest on the throat, and shading into olive on the flanks. Wing-lining primrose-yellow, passing into white. Wing and tail-quills blackish brown, margined outwardly by olive and the former inwardly by greyish white, while the middle pair of the latter have most of the inner web dusky olive ; irides dark hazel; feet bluish black. Obs. The bill is certainly stouter than that of Loxops, but less powerful and straighter than that of Oreomyza, and recalls, as does the general appearance of the bird, that of Chrysomitris. At present it seems doubtful whether this generic form should be assigned to the Finches or to the Honey-eaters; the slightly covered nostrils indicate the latter, but the mucronate tips of the secondary quills and, above all, the Siskin-like song seem to show a Fringilline affinity. Dimensions. Total length 4 | inches, wing 2|, tail 2, culmen *4, tarsus '75. Hab. Kauai. LOXOPS FLAMMEA, sp. n. Male. Front and sides of the head pure scarlet; top of the head and back brownish scarlet, brightening into nearly pure scarlet on the rump ; chin, throat, and lower surface generally pure scarlet, but paler in hue, brighteniug, however, on the flanks ; rectrices blackish brown edged with brownish scarlet; wing-lining pale scarlet. Bill and legs light pinkish brown. Female. Top of the head hair-brown, but each feather brownish scarlet at the base, and the shaft of those towards the back of the Chrysomitridis faciem habens. |
