DBEPANIS PACIFICA. 



MAMO. 



"Great Hook-billed Creeper," Latham, Gen. Synops. i. p. 703 (1782) ; id. Suppl. p. 126 (1787). 



" ? Hoohoo," King, Voy. Pacif. Ocean, iii. p. 119, par tim (1784). 



Certhia pacifica, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 470 (1788); Latham, Ind. Orn. i. p. 281 (1790); 



Donndorff, Orn. Beytr. i. p. 621 (1794) ; Shaw, Zool. viii. p. 227 (1812) ; Tiedemann, Anat. 



Naturgesch. Vog. iv. p. 431 (1814) ; Peale,U.S.Expl.Exped., Birds, p. 149 (1848); Hartlaub, 



Arch. f. Naturgesch. 1852, i. p. 109; Cassin, U.S. Expl. Expecl., Mamm. & Orn. p. 171 



(1858). 

 " Le Hoho," Vieillot, Ois. Dores, ii. p. 124, pi. lxiii * (1802) ; Lesson, Compl. Buffon, ix. p. 156 



(1837). 

 u Grimpereau a long bee des iles Sandwich," parlim, Virey (Sonnini), Hist. Nat. Buffon, Ois. xvii. 



p. 97 (1804, 5). 

 "Le Merops jaunoir," Levaillant, Hist, des Prornerops et des Guepiers, p. 45, pi. xix.* (1807). 

 Melithreptus pacificus, Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 323 (1817) ; id. Encycl. Meth., 



Ornithol. p. 602 (1823) ; Cuvier, Regne Anim. e'd. 2, i. p. 433 (1829) ; J. E. Gray (Griffith), 



Anim. Kingd. vii. p. 358 (1829). 

 Drepanis pacifica, Temminck, Man. d'Orn. i. p. lxxxvi (1820) ; G. R. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 96 (1847) ; 



id. Cat. B. Trop. Isl. p. 7 (1859); id. Hand-list, i. p. 113 (1869) [" Friendly Islands " !] ; 



Bonaparte, Consp. Av. i. p. 403 (1850) ; Hartlaub, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 1852, i. p. 131 ; 



Reichenbach, Handb. sp. Orn. p. 253, pi. 611. figs. 3828, 3829 * (1853) ; Dole, Proc. Bost. 



Soc. N. H. xii. p. 297 (1869) ; id. Hawaiian Alman. 1879, p. 45 ; Sclater, Ibis, 1871, p. 368; 



id. op. cit. 1879, p. 92; Sundevall, Tentam. p. 48 (1872) ; Von Pelzeln, Journ. f. Orn. 1872, 



p. 26; id. Ibis, 1873, p. 21; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. x. p. 5 (1885); S. B. Wilson, Ibis, 



1890, p. 178. 

 Vestiaria hoho, Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 269. 



* Figurce notabiles. 



This species, the Great Hook-billed Creeper of Latham, was first described in the 

 ' General Synopsis ' from two examples in the Leverian Museum, said to be male and 

 female, which are now, according to Herr von Pelzeln, in the Imperial Museum at 

 Vienna. In the main text of Latham's work the bird is erroneously stated to inhabit 

 the " Friendly Islands, in the South Seas," though this slip is rectified in the ' Supple- 

 ment,' where it is said to be " common at Owhyhee and called by the natives Hoohoo." 

 Vieillot, nevertheless, in the ' Oiseaux Dores ' makes a fresh blunder by giving the 

 habitat as ' Owhihee, Iles des Amis," and G. R. Gray in his ' Hand-list ' repeats the 

 mistake as far as the islands are concerned. The specimens thus brought to notice 

 were no doubt derived from the spoils of the early explorers of the Pacific, and King 

 mentions the " Hoohoo " in his account of Cook's last voyage ; but as this name appears 



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