Letters, Extracts, Notices, ^c. 575 



115. Wilson and Evans's ' Aves Hawa'denses ' *. 



[Aves Ilawaiienses : the Birds of the Sandwich Islands. By Scott 

 B. Wilson, F.Z.S., assisted by A. H. Evan , M.A., F.Z.S. Part III. 

 May 1892. 4to. London : R. H. Porter.] 



The present part of this valuable work gives us excellent 

 figures of various species of the peculiar Hawaiian genera 

 Heniignathiis and Himatione. Of the former H. obscurus, 

 H. olivaceus, H. procerus, and H. hanapepe are depicted ; of 

 the latter Himatione parva, H. montana, and H. dejnegeri. 



Besides the above we have full accounts of five more widely 

 distributed species also met with more or less frequently in 

 the Hawaiian Archipelago ; these are Charadrius fulvus, 

 Strepsilas interpres, Numenins ta/ntiensis, Totanus incanus, 

 and Calidris arenaria. Totanus incanus is carefully figured 

 in young and adult plumages, and its distinctions from the 

 nearly allied T. brevipes are pointed out. Mr. Seebohm 

 [' Plovers and Sandpipers/ p. 360) admits these two forms only 

 as subspecies, and says that they completely " intergrade.''^ 



L. — Letters, Extracts, Notices, ^c. 



We have received the following letters, addressed to the 

 Editor of ' The Ibis ' :— 



Sir, — For the purpose of collecting birds, I am at present 

 at the Great Loo Choo Island (Okinawa Sliima), and have 

 been stopping here for about four months. But the re- 

 strictions put upon me, and the constant worrying by the 

 local Japanese authorities, make it impossible for me to do 

 my work, which is so much more to be regretted, I think, as 

 additional specimens from this locality are desirable, 



I am, Sir, 



Yours &c., 

 May 17th, 1892. P. Aug. Holst. 



Sir, — I observe that in my notes on the Hallux of the 

 Kittiwake, contributed to the July ' Ibis/ I have iuadver- 



* For notice of Part II. see above, p. 178. 



