Notes on the American Birds Collected in the 

 Hawaiian Islands by Mr. Gerrit Wilder. 



BY WM. ALANSON BRYAN. 



The Bishop Museum has received as a gift from Mr. Gerrit 

 Wilder, of Honolulu, a collecflion of twenty-two birds which are, 

 for the most part, of as much interest to ornithologists on the 

 mainland as to persons residing in the Hawaiian Islands. Since 

 California, the nearest point on the American continent, is some 

 two thousand miles distant, the occasional occurrence in this group 

 of a strange bird from that quarter is regarded as a circumstance 

 worthy of permanent record. 



The following list, which notes for the first time the occur- 

 rence of two North American birds in the islands, is given more 

 especially in confirmation of recently published records. In a few 

 instances the list simply emphasizes the fact that certain shore and 

 water birds are to be met with in the Islands more commonly than 

 is generally supposed. From the view of a sportsman, Mr. Wilder 

 has, for a number of years, taken a lively interest in our game birds. 

 He has seldom failed to preserve skins of such rare birds as came to 

 his bag. In consequence our knowledge of the Hawaiian avifauna 

 has been very considerably extended, as the following, no less than 

 previously published notes' based on his field observations, testify. 



Micranous hawaiiensis (Roths.). Hawaiian Tern. Noio. 



The specimen (B. P. B. Mus. No. 2230) furnishes the first 

 properly authenticated record of this Tern being taken on Maui, 

 although it has long been known to frequent the waters about the 

 entire group. The bird is typical M. hawaiiensis, differing, as I 

 have elsewhere- pointed out, from 71/. maracsi and specimens in the 

 Museum from the leeward islands of the group. 



Phaethon lepturus Lacep. & Daun. White-tailed Tropic 



Bird. Koae. 



A single specimen from Maui. 



1 See Bryan's Key to the Birds of the Hawaiian Group, Memoirs B. P. Bishop Museum 

 vol. i, no. 3. 



2 Monograph of Marcus Island, Occ. Pa. B. P. Bishop Museum, vol. ii, no. i, p. loi. 



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