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Show 166 ON A N E W SPECIES OF HIMATIONE. [Feb. 17, rump, flanks, and under tail-coverts bright tawny Ch. sclateri, Ridgw. c1. Breast, rump, and flanks lighter tawny than in the preceding species; under tail-coverts white, very slightly tinged with tawny. Dimensions smaller than the preceding species Ch. ibidis, Stejn. [Ibis, 1885, pi. i. fig. 2.] It thus follows that there are, so far as is at present known, five species of Chasiempis inhabiting the Sandwich Islands :- 1. Ch. dolei, Stejneger. 2. Ch. sclateri, Ridgway. 3. Ch. gayi, Wilson. 4. Ch. ibidis, Stejneger. 5. Ch. ridgwayi, Stejneger. Hawaii. Dr. Stejneger inclines to the belief that there still remains a species, a form with tawny wing-markings, the Sandwich Flycatcher of Latham (Ch. sandwichensis of Gmelin), the real habitat of which may be one of the islands between Hawaii and Kauai. His reason for this theory is that Latham's description of the Sandwich Flycatcher, Ch. sandwichensis, which is plainly that of a species with tawny wing-markings, does not agree in detail with that of either Ch. sclateri or Ch. ibidis. In his letter to m e he further says " that you did not find it there (on Hawaii) may be due either to it having become exterminated, or to a particular misfortune of yours in not coming across it during your stay on that island." I have in m y collection four specimens from Hawaii with tawny wing-markings, but these I take to be immature examples of Ch. ridgwayi. Dr. Stejneger, however, may be right, but this is a question 1 hope will be satisfactorily solved by the time the part of my ' Birds of the Sandwich Islands ' including this genus appears. 4. Description of a new Species of the Genus Himatione from the Sandwich Islands. By S C O T T B. W I L S O N , F.Z.S. [Received January 31, 1891.] I herewith give a brief description of a new species of Himatione, based on a single specimen which I obtained in the district of Kula on the island of Maui, in July 1888. I may mention that I killed it and an immature example of Himatione sanguinea at one shot. I have named it after m y friend Mr. Dole, whose name is so well known amongst those ornithologists that have studied the Hawaiian Avifauna. HIMATIONE DOLEI, sp. nov. Crown of the head grey, shading into dull brown-pink, which is tinged on the sides with dull red ; rest of the upper parts dusky brown Kauai. Oahu. |