

LOXOPS COCCINEA, 



AKEPEUIE. 



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" Scarlet Finch," Latham, Gen. Synops. ii. p. 270 (1783). 



Fringilla coccinea, Grnelin, Syst.'Nat. i. p. 921 (1788); Latham, Ind. Orn. i. p. 444 (1790); 



Donndorff, Orn. Beytr. ii. p. 541 (1795) ; Tiedemann, Anat. Naturgesch. Vog. ii. p. 433 



(1814) ; Stephens, Shaw's Zool. ix. p. 454 (1815) ; Cuvier, Regne Anim. i. p. 387 (1817) ; 



Vieillot, N. Diet, delist. Nat. xii. p. 167 (1817) ; id. Encycl. Method., Ornithol. p. 983 (1823) ; 



J. E. Gray & Griffith, An. Kingd. Aves, ii. p. 140 (1829) ; G. R. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 371 



(1849). 

 " Le Moineau des lies Sandwich," Sonnini, Hist. Nat. Buflon, Ois. xii. p. 251 (1802). 

 " Chardonneret ecarlate," Vieill. Ois. Chant, pi. 31* (1805). 



Fringilla rufa, Bloxam, Voy. ' Blonde/ p. 250 (1826) ; J. E. Gray, Zool. Miscell. p. 11 (1831). 

 Carduelis coccinea, Lesson, Compl. Buffon, viii. p. 281 (1837). 

 Linaria ? coccinea, Gould, Zool. Voy. ' Sulphur,' p. 41, Birds, pi. 22* (1843). 

 Drepanis rufa, G. R. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 96 (1847). 

 Loxops coccinea, Cahanis, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 1847, i. p. 330 ; G. R. Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Isl. 



p. 28 (1859) ; id. Hand-1. B. i. p. 114 (1869) ; Sclater, Ibis, 1871, p. 360, 1879, p. 92 ; Sharpe, 



Cat. B. Br. Mus. x. pp. 49, 50 (1885). 

 Hypoloxias coccinea, Bonaparte, Consp. Av. i. p. 518 (1850) ; Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Av. p. 48 



(1854) ; Hartlaub, Arch, f . Naturgesch. 1852, i. p. 133 ; Dole, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. 1869, 



p. 301 ; id. Hawaiian Alman. 1879, p. 49. 

 Loxops coccineus, Von Pelzeln, Journ. f. Orn. 1872, p. 29. 

 " Byrseus coccineus, Reichenbach," Bonaparte ut supra [Byrseus, Reichenbach, Natiirl. Syst. Vog. 



tab. lxxv. (1850)]. 

 Drepanis aurea, Dole, Hawaiian Alman. 1879, p. 45. 

 Loxops aurea, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. x. p. 50, partim (1885) . 



* Figurce notabiles. 



This is one of the birds of which examples have always been so rare in museums that 

 few persons have had opportunities of examining them, and in consequence we have an 

 involved synonymy. Brought home by Cook's people, and originally described by 

 Latham from the Leverian Museum, it was named Fringilla coccinea by Gmelin, but 

 unfortunately received the new appellation of F. rufa from Bloxam ; while G. E. Gray, 

 having the ' Blonde ' specimens before him, referred them in 1847 to the genus 

 Drepanis, retaining also, in 1849, the original F. coccinea as a distinct species ; Gould, 

 moreover, in the Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. ' Sulphur,' failed to perceive that 

 the so-called two species were identical. Further confusion has been caused by Judge 

 Dole, who, while including F. coccinea in his list, redescribed it there as Drepanis aurea 



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