. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. 54 ^ BIRDS OF THE HAWAIIAN GROUP. , wing , tail , culmen ., tarsus ., toe . Hab. Kauai, Molokai, Laiiai, Hawaii, Oaliu.'" PL XXIX., 6612. 104, P. psitta'cea (Gmel.). Ou'. Genus I^OXIOI'DISS Oustalkt. Head and neck to the mantle, and breast to the middle of the body, uniform bright gamboge ^^ellow; back and upper coverts ashy grey, decidedly ashy on the rump; wing coverts, primaries and tail feathers dusky brown or blackish edged wi
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. 54 ^ BIRDS OF THE HAWAIIAN GROUP. , wing , tail , culmen ., tarsus ., toe . Hab. Kauai, Molokai, Laiiai, Hawaii, Oaliu.'" PL XXIX., 6612. 104, P. psitta'cea (Gmel.). Ou'. Genus I^OXIOI'DISS Oustalkt. Head and neck to the mantle, and breast to the middle of the body, uniform bright gamboge ^^ellow; back and upper coverts ashy grey, decidedly ashy on the rump; wing coverts, primaries and tail feathers dusky brown or blackish edged with yellowish olive; abdomen and under tail coverts dusky whitish with a bluish cast. Female: Similar, but with the yellow showing a brownish wash; with a greenish cast to the under parts. Length about , wing , tail , depth of bill .60, tarsus ., toe .75. Hab. Hawaii. 105. ly. bailleu'i Oust. Palila. Genus TEI/KSPI'2^A Head all around, neck and under parts to the middle of the abdomen bright yellow, brightest on the head; back bright olive yellow with varying blackish shaft streaks; rump grey with some olive cast at times; webs of primaries and tail feathers brown; secondaries blackish edged with yellowish olive; wing coverts deep brown broadly edged with yellowish olive; bill horn color. Immahire: Feathers of the head deep brown wdth 3^ellowish edges; upper surface with centre of feathers deep brown or blackish edged with light brown; rump uniform brown; tail and primaries brown edged with olive yellow; throat and breast yellow with brown shaft stripes; centre of the abdomen white; sides and under tail coverts brown, or olive brown, and with brown shaft stripes. Young: Similar to immature birds, except yellow reduced to the slight- est tinge about the head and wings. Length , wing , tail , culmen .65-70, depth of bill .47-50, tarsus ., toe .95. Hab?^ Laysan. PI. XXIX., 8731. 106. T. can'tans^' Wilson. I^aysa
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