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Show 446 ON N E W SPECIES O F H A W A I I A N BIRDS. [Nov. 5, head grey ; back hiir-brown tinged with red, rump distinctly russet, and the upper tail-coverts brownish scarlet; remises and rectrices blackish brown edged with brownish scarlet, as also are the upper wing-coverts. Beneath, dull white tinged with pale scarlet; sides of the body reddish brown, and wing-lining white tinged with scarlet. Dimensions. Total length 5 inches, wing from carpal joint 2\, culmen "5, tarsus *75, tail 2. Hab. Molokai. Obs. Differs from L. coccinea not only in its much larger size, but in the intense purity of its scarlet, which replaces the scarlet-orange of L. coccinea. HlMATIONE MONTANA, Sp. n. Male. Forehead, sides of the face, and throat deep lemon-yellow, shading into a lighter tint of yellow on the breast and abdomen, the lower part of which is white ; under tail-coverts deep lemon-yellow ; upper parts, with the exception of the rump, which is yellow, are dull greenish yellow ; primaries, of which the second is much shorter than the fourth and fifth, which are equal, ashy brown, edged with dull yellow ; wing-lining white, tinged with clear yellow ; tail-quills ashy brown edged with dull yellow. Bill light pinkish. Feet slender, of the same colour as the bill. Female. Similar in general colour to the male, but the underparts are of a very light shade of lemon-yellow instead of the deep yellow of the male. Dimensions. Total length 4 inches, wing from carpal joint 2*25, culmen *35, tarsus *70, tail 2*75. Hab. Lanai. Obs. The bill in curve approaches nearest to Oreomyza and in size to Himatione parva, Stejn. HlMATIONE STEJNEGERI, Sp. n. ? H. chloris, Stejneger, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1887, p. 96 (nee Cabanis, Mus. Hein. i. p. 99). Closely resembling H. chloris, but having the bill higher at the base, more decurved, and with the maxilla perceptibly exceeding the mandible in length. This species differs from the true LL. chloris, of which I have been able to examine a specimen in the Museum of the University of Cambridge, marked by Prof. Cabanis as agreeing with his type. Dr. Stejneger, it will be observed, did not feel certain as to the identity of the form from Kauai and that from Oahu, whence came Prof. Cabanis's examples, and where I obtained others agreeing with them. Hab. Kauai. Obs. The representative forms of Himatione chloris, Cab., from the Islands of Lanai and Molokai, are (easily) distinguishable from each other and also from Professor Cabanis's type, which was obtained from the island of Oahu. The following characters of the forms of this species from the three islands will serve to distinguish them :- |
