HONEY-EATER. 191 



* * WITH CREEPER-LIKE BILLS. 



48 —GREAT HOOK-BILLED HONEY-EATER. 



Certhia pacifica, Ind. Orn. i. 2S1. Gm. Lin. i. 470. 



Le Hoho, Ois. dor. ii. 97. pi. 63. 



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



Hereo-taire, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxxxvi. 



Great hook-billed Creeper, Gen. Syn. ii. 703. Id. Sup. 126. Shaiv's Zool. viii. 227. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill brown, with the base pale, one 

 inch and three quarters long, stout at the beginning, and very much 

 hooked; plumage above black, but the lower part of the back, 

 rump, and upper tail coverts are fine deep yellow ; under parts of 

 the body dusky ; shoulders, inner ridge of the wing, and part of the 

 coverts yellow ; bastard wing yellowish white at the end ; the under 

 wing coverts quite white ; vent and thighs yellow ; quills and tail 

 black, the last rounded at the end ; legs black. 



Inhabits the Friendly Islands, in the South Seas ; called, at 

 Owhyhee, Hoohoo. 



49— SICKLE-BILLED HONEY-EATER. 



Certhia falcata, Ind. Orn. i. 282. Gm. Lin. i. 470. 



Soui-manga a bee en faucille, Ois. dor. ii. p. 67. 



Sickle-billed Creeper, Gen. Syn. ii. 705. Shaw's Zool. vii. 230. 



LENGTH five inches and a half. The bill one inch and three 

 quarters, curved like a sickle, and dusky ; upper part of the head, 



