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Title: Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History
Identifier: acs9793.0001.003.umich.edu
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
Subjects: Natural history; Ethnology
Publisher: Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press
Contributing Library: University of Michigan
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Michigan

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50 BIRDS OF THE HAWAIIAN GROUP. Genus H:EMIGNA'THUS Lichtenstein.
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X FIG. 7. H. OBSCURUS. Bill very long, slender and curved, with the tongue as long as the bill; feet reaching to the tip of the tail (in the skin); tip of the wings falling short of the tip of the tail by less than the length of the hind toe and claw. a. Back dull olive green; species has ver)^ inconspicuous plumage; the whole upper surface and wing feathers on the outside are dull olive green, the inner webs of the flight feathers dull brown. The under surface is light but still dull; throat and centre of the abdomen, as well as the under tail coverts, pale buff. A bright yellow superciliary stripe is very conspicuous, especiall)^ as direcflly underneath it from the beak to the eye there is a dark browm streak. The bow-shaped, curved bill, which terminates in a very fine, almost hair-like point, is exa^lly half as long as the body, and the under mandible is three lines shorter than the upper. The whole length, from the point of the bill to the end of the tail is 7 inches, bill i^, tail i^)^? tarsus 11 lines, middle toe and claw 9 lines (Excerpt from Rothschild\s translation of Lichtenstein's description). Hah, Oahu; rare or extinct. (No specimens in the Museum.) 95. H. lichtensteini^^ Wii.son. Kipi. aa. Yellowish olive green above; under parts yellower. b. Smaller size; bill shorter; above all over a beautiful bright olive green with a yellowish cast, yellowest on the rump, and with a distinct yellow mark over the eye; throat, sides of face and breast duller olive green than the back, fading into dis- tinct whitish on the abdomen and under tail coverts, varied only with an olive wash; primaries and tail feathers browm with olive on the outer edges; lores smoky black; wings falling short of the tip of the tail by less than .50 (in the skin). Female: Above, greyish olive green; more olive green on the rump; lores blackish, above w^hich is a pale superciliary stripe; chin whitish or greyish white with a yellowish tinge, becom- ing yellower on the chest and under parts, with olive tinge along the sides. Young: Similar to female. Length 6.25-6.50, wing 3.00-3.15, tail 1.80-1,85, chord of culmen 1.25-1.38, tarsus .87--.92, toe .80-.85, depth of bill .20, width of bill .25. //i^<^. Hawaii. PI. XXIX., 9421, 96. H. obscur^us (Gmel.)- Akialoa. 48 Since the first reference iti Gray's syiionomy (Cat. Birds Trop. Isds., p. 9) ior Drepanh (Hcmtgnathus) elHsiatia is given Certkia obscura (nee Gmel.) Vieill. Ois. dor. t. 53?". I prefer to consider that it is the tcference to the exact place in the volume cited that Gray wavS in doubt about, and that he did not intend questioning the name Cerihia obscura. That being the case Drepanu (Hemignathus) elthiaTia will become a svnonvm of Hemi^nathus ob^curus. Hence it seems that Mr. Wilson's name //. Uchtensicini should stand, (306)

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