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No. 84
Vestiana coccinea Hawaii
native home - Divi.
length 5.83, Wing, 3.20; Tail 2.125, Fores 1.00,
For.74, Culmen 1.10, Depth of beak .28, Distance
from tip of wing to tip of tail, about 7 8 inches.
Female, found up among the mamame
trees on both sides of the stone fence, at 8,000 foot
elevation in the sand fields near Pokihi, on
Dane's Ranch, Hamakua Hawaii on Sept
-2, 1903.