HIMATIONE SANGUINEA. 



APAPANE. 



"Crimson Creeper," Latham, Gen. Synops. i. p. 739 (1782). 



"Bird of a deep crimson colour/-" Cook, [Last] Voy. Pacif. Ocean, ii. p. 227 (1784). 



Certhia sanguinea, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 479 (1788) ; Latham, Ind. Orn. i. p. 290 (1790) ; 



Donndorff, Orn. Beytr. i. p. 643 (1794) ■ Shaw, Zool. viii. p. 231 (1812) ; Tiedemann, Anat. 



Naturgesch. Vog. ii. p. 431 (1814). 

 " L'Heoro-taire cramoisi/' Vieillot, Ois. Dores, ii. p. 128, pi. lxvi* (1802). 

 "Le Soui-manga sanguinolent," Virey (Sonnini), Hist. Nat. Buffon, Ois. xvii. p. 107 (1804-5). 

 Nectarinia sanguinea, Cuvier, Regne Anim. i. p. 410 (1817). 

 Petrodroma sanguinea, Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 108 (1818) [" Tanna " !] ; id. 



Encycl. Meth., Ornithol. p. 621 (1823) ; J. E. Gray (Griffith), Anim. Kingd. vii. p. 353 



(1829). 

 Nectarinia byronensis, Bloxam, Voy. ' Blonde/ p. 249 (1826). 



Drepanis byronensis, J. E. Gray, ut supra, pi. opp. p. 390 (1829) ; id. Zool. Miscell. p. 12 (1831). 

 Myzomela ? sanguinea, G. R. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 118 (1846). 

 Drepanis sanguinea, Hartlanb, Syst. Verz. Mus. [Bremen], p. 16 (1844) ; id. Arch. f. Naturgesch. 



1852, i. p. 131 ; G. R. Gray, ut supra, p. 96, partim (1847); Bonaparte, Consp. Av. i. p. 404, 



partim (1850) ; Lichtenstein, Nomencl. p. 55 (1854) ; Cassin, U.S. Expl. Exped., Mamm. & 



Orn. p. 439 (1858) ; Dole, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xii. p. 297 (1869) ; id. Hawaiian Alman. 



1879, p. 44 ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 347 ; id. Ibis, 1879, p. 92. 

 Himatione sanguinea, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. i. p. 99 (1850-51) ; Reichenbach, Handb. sp. Orn. p. 255, 



partim, pi. 612. fig. 3834* (1853) ; Sclater, Ibis, 1871, p. 360; Von Pelzeln, Journ. f. Orn. 



1872, p. 27, partim; Sundevall, Tentam. p. 48 (1872) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. x. p. 8 



(1885) ; Stejneger, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1887, p. 95 ; S. B. Wilson, Ibis, 1890, p. 183. 

 Drepanis (Himatione) sanguinea, G. R. Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Isl. p. 8, partim (1859) ; id. Hand-list, 



i. p. 113, partim (1869). 



* Figurce notabiles. 



The circumstances attending the discovery and description of this bird are almost 

 identical with those in the case of several other Sandwich Island species : for in the 

 account of Cook's last voyage it is mentioned as the " Bird of a deep crimson colour ;" 

 Latham, in the ' General Synopsis,' gives it the English name of " Crimson Creeper ;" 

 and Gmelin, whose only acquaintance with it was from Latham's work, bestowed upon 

 it, in his ' Systema Naturae,' the Latin title of Certhia sanguinea ; while Peale does not 

 mention it at all in the history of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, though Cassin gives 

 it a place in the Catalogue at the end of his edition of the same. Latham, however, 

 did not figure this species in his book, though Vieillot subsequently did so in his 

 ' Oiseaux Dores,' and still earlier W. W. Ellis, in 1779, had made a drawing of it 



