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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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FIG. 13. R. PALM KKI. a. Head, throat and under parts throughout rich scarlet orange; breast purer orange tinge; under tail coverts and flanks showing some grey; mantle brown; rump orange brown; tail and wing feathers brown, with some orange brown; wing and tail feathers bi'own with orange brown edgings to the outer webs; bill bluish grey. Female: Above, greenish olive with dark grey bases to the feathers; more olive on the rump and upper tail coverts; tail and wing feathers with olive edges; breast showing grey as the under color, with yellowish olive edges, yellowest on chin and upper breast; centre of the breast w^hitish wdth but faint yellowish wash; flanks greenish yellow. Young: Similar to females; young males brighter below. Length about 7.50, wing 4.20-4.40, tail 2.90-3.00, culmen .80-.85, depth of bill .58-.61, tarsus 1.00-1.05, toe 1.00. Hah. Hawaii. PL XXIX., 6603, 6601. 107. R. palm'eri Roths. aa. Head, neck and under parts generally apple yellow, brightest and richer on the head and neck, and greener on the under parts; upper parts ashy green, becom- ing bright green on the low^er back, rump and upper tail coverts. Wings and tail dull blackish brown, feathers externally margined with green; bill blue-brown; legs grey; iris brown. Total length about 7.50, culmen .72, wings 3.80, tail 2.50, tarsus i.oo. Adult female: Differs from the male in being much greener and duller in color, only the forehead being yellow; the crown similarly colored to the back; under parts dull yellowish green. Palmer obtained a small series in the district of Kona at the same place where A^. pabneri w^as first collected. The smaller size and yellow head of the adult male serves to distinguish this species very easily from the much larger R, palmen with its orange red head in the adult male. Neither Wilson nor Perkins met with this bird (Rothschild in Part III., Avifauna of Laysan, etc.). Hab. Hawaii. 108. R. flav'iceps Roths. (311)

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