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By the kindness of Her Majesty we have been allowed to examine and photograph this cloak, and the illustration shows the distribution of ʻiʻiwi red and ʻōʻō yellow and black. The red is so brilliant that I was inclined to think it ʻapapane rather than ʻiʻiwi: it is often a puzzle for different specimens of each of these two birds show such great variation in color that almost any shade of scarlet or crimson can be matched. The dimensions of the cape are: extreme width, 33.5 inches; depth at the back 16 inches, at the front 10.5 inches. The network is in one piece and uniform. In the absence of color in the illustration (Fig. 16) it will be well to specify more fully. The divided crescent is black with a filling of yellow; the two semicrescents above this are red as are also the triangles on the lower front. The neck band consists of twelve black and eleven yellow patches; similar patches ornament the front borders arranged in the following order from the top: red, yellow, black, yellow, red, yellow, black, yellow, red, black. The strings are of the square braid olona. The Queen inherited it from her mother Keohokalole, and of its earlier history we have nothing.