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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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TURDID^. 59 Family TURDID^.—Thrushes, Etc. Genus, The young different from the adults, having the under parts spotted; tarsus for the greater part of its length without transverse scutulse, being booted; bill somewhat depressed, with a few redal bristles; gonys about one-third the length of the com- misure of the beak (Sub-family MyadestincE)'^ inner toe about equal to the hind toe; nostrils exposed and not hidden by bristles, and situated in a wide oval groove; culmen not longer than the hind claw; second primary longer than the secondaries; bill with a distinct sub-terminal notch (Page 59.) Phseor'nis. Genus PH^OR'NIS Scuvtek. ^^—y-
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FIG. 17. P. OESCimA. a. Uniform in color above, brown or hair-brown, with faint olive wash. b. Very conspicuous buffy white mark on the outer tail feathers. C, Wing less than 4.00; feet light flesh-color; above, dull browm with an olive cast, most pronounced on the middle of the rump and mantle; throat and lores bluish grey; chest bluish ash or grey, sometimes mottled w^ith blackish; abdomen and under tail coverts buff-white; outer web of primaries with very dull brown edge; inner web edged so as to form a dull buffy patch at base of feathers; outer tail feathers edged with whitish or fulvous on the inner web; ends of primary coverts blackish, forming a patch. Young: Feathers above, browm with broad blackish borders to the tip, and before this a creamy buff, more or less triangular spot; feathers of lower parts ashy brown at the base, then lighter cream color and broadl)^ bordered wdth blackish brown, these borders blackest and broadest on the breast (Rothschild). Length about 6.15, wing 3.35, tail 2.45, culmen .70, depth of bill .20, width of bill .22, tarsus 1.30, toe .95, gonys .32. Hah, Kauai. PI. XXVII., 6693. 116. P. palm'eri Roths. Puaiohi. (315)

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