

HEMIGNATHUS OBSCUEUS. 



AKIALOA. 



"Hook-billed Green Creeper," Latham, Gen. Synops. i. p. 703, pi. xxxiii.fig. 1 (1782) ; id. Suppl. 

 p. 126 (1787). 



? " Akaiearooa," King, Voy. Pacif. Ocean, iii. p. 119 (1784). 



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

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

 Naturgesch. Vog. ii. p. 430 (1814) ; J. E. Gray & Griffith, An. Kingd., Aves, vii. p. 358 

 (1829). 



" L'Akaiearoa/' Vieillot, Ois. Dores, ii. p. Ill, pi. liii. (1802) ; Lesson, Compl. Buffon, ix p 155 

 (1837). 



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

 p. 98 (1804-5). 



Melithreptus obscurus, Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 322 (1817) ; id. Encycl. Meth., 

 Ornithol. p. 601 (1823) ; Cuvier, Regne Anim. ed. 2, i. p. 433 (1829). 



Drepanis obscura, Temminck, Man. d'Orn. i. p. lxxxvi (1820). 



" Hook-billed Green Honey-Eater," Latham, Gen. Hist. B. iv. p. 192, pi. 71. fig. 1 (1822). 



Melithreptus vestiarius, ?, Lesson, Tr. d'Orn. p. 300 (1831). 



Vestiaria akaroa, Lesson, Eev. Zool. 1840, p. 268. 



Drepanis coccinea {partim), G. R. Gray, Gen. B. p. 96 (1847). 



Hemignathus obscurus, Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped., Birds, p. 153 (1848) ; Hartlaub, Arch. f. Natur- 

 gesch. 1852, ii. p. 110; Reichenbach, Handb. sp. Orn., Tenuirostres, p. 312, pi. 591. fig. 4009 

 (1853) ; Cassin, U.S. Expl. Exped., Mamm. & Orn. p. 178 (1858) ; Dole, Proc. Bost. Soc. 

 N. H. xii. p. 298 (partim) (1869) ; id. Hawaiian Alman. 1879, p. 45 ; Sclater, Ibis, 1871, 

 p. 360; id. op. cit. 1879, p. 92; Sundevall, Tentam. p. 48 (1872) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus' 

 x. p. 4 (1885) ; S. B. Wilson, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, iv. p. 400 (1889) ; id. Ibis, 1890 

 p. 189. 



Drepanis {Vestiaria) coccinea, ? , G. R. Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Isl. p. 8 (1859); id. Hand-1. B. i. 

 p. 114 (1869). 



Drepanis (Hemignathus) ellisiana, G. R. Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Isl. p. 9 (1859) ; id. Hand-1. B. i 

 p. 114 (1869). 



Nature has shown great symmetry with regard to the species of this genus to be found 

 in the Sandwich Archipelago, three of the main islands having each a long-billed and 

 a short-billed form, in the latter of which, moreover, the mandible is only about half 

 the length of the maxilla. The subject of our present notice is the long-billed form 

 from Hawaii, which was called by Latham the " Hook-billed Green Creeper " in his 

 'General Synopsis' of 1782, and the "Hook-billed Green Honey-eater" in his later 



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