BIRDS 



OP THE 



Hawaiian Possessions 



WITH NOTES ON THEIR HABITS. 



PART I.— SCOPE OF THE PRESENT LIST. 



With the exception of a limited knowledge of Oahu and a 

 short visit to the slopes of Haleakala on Maui, the author's own 

 field experience is restricted to the Island of Hawaii, the largest 

 and most extensively forested of the group, and mostly to its 

 windward side. Within this limited area he has enjoyed un- 

 usual opportunities to observe the habits of certain species. 



Many of the birds that inhabit the Island of Hawaii recur 

 upon the other islands. While the change of food and climate, 

 in other words, of environment, has been sufficient to transform 

 many of them into specifically distinct forms, yet the habits of 

 the related forms usually differ but little on the several islands 

 and the songs still less. Hence, observations of habits made 

 upon one island in the main apply to the allied birds of the other 

 islands. In the case of species which have not fallen under the 

 observation of the author, he has been aided by the published 

 accounts of Wilson, Rothschild and Perkins. 



It has been thought desirable to describe every species oc- 



