the Imperial Collection, at Vienna. 21 



Leverian collection ; but his description is evidently a repro- 

 duction of that of Buffon. 



MELIPHAGID.E. 



18. Drepanis pacifica (Gmel.). (m. 112, f. 113.) 

 Great Hook-billed Creeper, Lath. Gen. Synops. ii. 703. 3 



(Friendly Isles, Mus. Lever.), Suppl. 126 (Owhyhee). 



Hoohoo, Cook's last Voy. iii. 119. 



Certhia pacifica, Gmel. Syst. i. 470; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. 

 281. 3. 



Hoho, Audub. et Vieill. Ois. Dor. ii. t. 63 (from a specimen 

 from Mus. Lever., lent by Parkinson). 



Merops jaunoir, Levaill. Hist. Nat. des. Promer. t. 19 (err. 

 NewHoll.). 



Drepanis pacifica (Gmel.), Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2nd ed. i. 

 lxxxvi. 1820; Gray, Birds Trop. Isl. Pacif. Oc. 7; Reichen- 

 bach, Handb. d. Sp. Orn. 253, sp. 614 ; Gray, Hand-1. i. 113. 



"We have two specimens from Owhyhee, marked male 

 (no. 112) and female (113), Sale Cat. n. 2790, the types of 

 Latham's description, and one of them also the original of the 

 plate of Vieillot, to whom it was lent by Mr. Parkinson. It 

 seems probable to me that these birds are from Cook's voyage ; 

 I am not aware if, besides these, and the specimen formerly 

 contained in Levaillant's collection, other individuals are to 

 be found in European museums. 



Mr. Peale (United States Expl. Exp. 1848, 149) asserts 

 that he collected a bird, which he thought to be Drepanis pa- 

 cifica, in the island of Kanai, one of the Sandwich group ; but 

 Cassin (ibid, new edit. 1858, 172) refers it to his Mohoa 

 braccata (Proc. Acad. Philad. vii. 1855, 440). I regret that 

 I am not enabled to compare Cassin's description of the 

 latter species, this volume of the Philadelphia ' Proceedings ' 

 being incomplete in our library. 



19. Psittirostra psittacea (Gmel.). (79.) 

 Parrot-billed Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Synops. iii. 108. 3, t. 42. 

 Parroquet, Cook's last Voy. iii. 119. 



Loxia psittacea, Gmel. Syst. i. 844 ; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. 

 371. 3. 



