. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 19. CHASIEMPIS. 231 Total length 3-8 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-15, tail 1-45, tarsus 0'6. (ilft/s. Civic. Genov.) Adult femcile. Rather more olive-yellow, and not of such a deep green above as the male ; quills and tail-feathers dusky brown, with olive-yellow margins, the latter with a slight shade of darker or blackish brown towards their ends; lores dusky white; ej^e-ring j-el- lowish ; ear-coverts ashy grey ; cheeks and throat dull whitish, the lower part of the latter washed with yellow; rest of under surface of body blight yellow, as also
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 19. CHASIEMPIS. 231 Total length 3-8 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-15, tail 1-45, tarsus 0'6. (ilft/s. Civic. Genov.) Adult femcile. Rather more olive-yellow, and not of such a deep green above as the male ; quills and tail-feathers dusky brown, with olive-yellow margins, the latter with a slight shade of darker or blackish brown towards their ends; lores dusky white; ej^e-ring j-el- lowish ; ear-coverts ashy grey ; cheeks and throat dull whitish, the lower part of the latter washed with yellow; rest of under surface of body blight yellow, as also the under wing-coverts and axillaries ; quills dull brown below, whitish along the edge of the inner web. Total length 38 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 1'9,5, tail 1"4, tarsus 0-6. Ohs. The type of the species is a young male, resembling the female, but already showing traces of the adult plumage in the shape of black feathers on the throat and a ring of black plumes round the eye. Hah. Aru Islands and New Guinea. a. (S ad. sk. Aru Islands. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. (Type of species.) b,c. (^2 f^d. sk. Aru Islands ( Voti Rosen- Leiden Museum [P.]. berg). 19. CHASIEMPIS. Type. Chasienipis, Calanis, Arch, fur Naturg. 1847, p. 207. C. sand-^' Foot of Chasiempis sandvicensis. Range. Confined to the Sandwich Islands and Earotonga in the Pacific. Key to the Sjoedes. Males. a. Above rufous-brown ; upper tail-coverts white ; forehead and eyebrow rufous sandvicetisis, p. 232. b. Above dark ashy grey; upper tail-coverts black; forehead and eyebrow dull white dimidiata, p. 232. Females. a. Rufous; tail bro-v\m, with white tips to the inner webs sandvicensis, p. 2"32. b. Rufous ; tail palo rufous, with a broad band of dark brown at the tip dimidiata, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original
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