570 



INDEX. 



Nets [Koko], 68 



Bag, 341 



Dip. 341 



Fish, 73 



Gill, 339 



of olona, 73 



Opelu, 341 

 Nettle, Sea, 480 

 Newa, 44 



Newell 's shearwater, 309 

 New industries (sec Industries), 281 



Zealand, 229, 281, 307 

 Night birds, 309 



blooming Cereus, 246, 254 



fishing, 242 



heron, Black-crowned, 310, 325 



-mare, How interpreted, 49 



mosquito, 387 



view of Mokuaweoweo, 186 

 Niho. A tooth, especially a whale's tooth : hence 



Nihopalaoa, an ivory ornament, worn pendent 



from the neck, made from the ivory of the 



whale or walrus. Originally this ornament 



was worn only bv high chiefs {see plate 10, 



fig. 1). 

 Nihoa (Bird Island), 88, 96, 9S 



Position of, 98 



Visited by, 98 

 Niihau, Description of. liil 



Island, 88 



mats [makaloa], 57, 72 



mat.s, how ornamented, 731 



Position of, 100, 101 



shell, 470, 101, 453 

 Nitidulid beetles, 388, 417 

 Nitrogen in soil, 105 

 Niu. The name of the cocoanut tree. Under 



the tabu system females were forbidden to 



eat the nuts under penalty of death. 

 Niu (see (llw cocoanut), 201, 23(i 



uses of ,23(i 

 Noah's ark shell (Ark shell), 456 

 Nobility a powerful class, 54 

 Noctuids, 396 



Nocturnal (309). Active at night, appearing at 



night. 

 Noddy tern, 310, 311, 318 

 Nohu' (Scorpion fish), 374, 168 

 Nohu, 92, 199, 3(i8 

 Nohuanu, 229 



Nomenclature, 'I'he systematic naming of things. 

 Scientilir kiMiwlrdge is based primarily on 

 the tl,]sMlii;iii..n of facts. Classification in 

 genciid riMiMsls m observing objects and plac- 

 ing those wliirh are alike in one or more char- 

 acters in the same group under a common 

 name. As the study of living objects has 

 advanced, and the number of species been 

 increased IIumu-Ii ^i^.:,l.ll. 11m- detail of pro- 

 viding a s<]i,ii.i!i iii'l ilifiiiilr n;itne for each 



living thiiii: li..- i :ui mi.rmous task. 



This labor iv l.n-.h [. t inr iiii<i by specialists, 

 who working ;i^ 1m, i;i [lists, zoologists, ento- 

 mologists iiimI III! Ilk'', are guided in the 

 naming of nl,|i , t~ m ili, ir respective fields, by 

 certain moif m Ifss il,-linite rules known as 

 the rules, or can<nis of nomenclature. By 

 these rules scientific or technical names are 

 applied which are intended to serve the 

 double purpose of providing a definite name 

 for the animal or plant, and at the same 

 time, one which will indicate its relation to 

 other similar groups and to still other groups 



from which it ditt'ers more or less in import- 

 ant characters. Natural classification at- 

 temps to indicate the relation of groups to 

 other groups of varying degrees of similarity. 

 In this scheme of classification and nomen- 

 clature a number of terms are quite gener- 

 ally applied, in the biological sciences, with the 

 general meaning of which every person should 

 be acquainted. The classification of the do- 

 mestic cat is a familiar e-xample and one that 

 serves well to indicate the important points 

 in the whole scheme of classification and 

 nomenclature in force among both botanists 

 and zoologists. 

 The many varieties or breeds of domestic cats indi- 

 cates the variation liable to occur within a 

 given species. The lion and the tiger differ 

 more widely in their characters and for that 

 reason are given different specific names, 

 but they, together with the common eat (as 

 well as numerous other species), are all 

 grouped together as species belonging to one 

 GENUS (Kelis), The genus Felis and other 

 geiu'r,-!, in wliir-h are placed less common cat- 

 likr iiniinnK, are grouped together in a 

 lai:;ii ^r.iti|i the FAMILY (Felida;), This 

 inii.nrliiiii mull]!, together with the members 

 of llii- doK laiiiilv form a still larger group — 

 the ORDER (Carnivora), These families, 

 as an order, are included with other orders to 

 form a CLASS and so on, as indicated in the 

 following diagram: 

 Kingdom — Animalia. 

 Phylum — Chordata. 



Cla 



nalii 



Order — Carnivora. 



Family — Felida?. 



Genus — Felis. 



Species — Felis duiiiestira. 



The name of the animal is generally understood 

 to be its generic name followed by its specific 

 name. To this, under varying rules, is 

 ustially added as nuilintitx tm- the name, the 

 family name of tli. pri-uii iirst publishing an 

 accurate descriplimi uf iln animal or plant. 

 Variety names air aildid under the same 

 gener.i'l rule: the nanus of the sub-species or 

 y:iriely foil. .wing that of the species as Asio 

 n,-i-ii,il,inii!< .■,in,,l, ■!,■,■ nxt.i (Blox.). The name 

 indicating that tin H.uyaiian owl is a variety 

 of the shi.ii iiiiril owl of America and that 

 it was tirsi 1I.M11I..1I by Bloxham. The 

 name of ih.' aii( li(>rif\- being enclosed in 

 parenthesis ( Bloxham j indicates, to the 

 student of nomenclature, that the species has 

 lieen changed from the original genus to 

 which Bloxham referred it in the original 

 description, 



Non-calcarious sjionges, 500 



Noni, 201, 205 



Distribution of, 205 

 uses of, 205 



Norfolk Island pine, 237 



North America, 191, 204, 220, 34(5 

 coast of Molokai, 133 

 -east coast of Hawaii, 154 

 Pacific currents, 191, 248 



Norway, 291 

 rat, 291 



Nose flute, 82 



how played, 82 



player, 40, 76 



of Hawaiians (characteristic), 38 



Notes, comments, observatioi s, where 

 found, 10 



Notoehonl, 484 



Noxious animals, 35 



Nuihi, 345 



