BEENICLA SANDVICENSIS. 



NENE. 



1 " Geese ... not unlike the Chinese Geese/' Ellis, Narrat. Voy. ii. p. 143 (1782). 



Anser sandvicensis, Vigors, List of Anim. in the Gardens of the Zool. Soc. ed. 11, p. 4 (for June 



1833). 

 Bernicla sandvicensis, Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1833, p. 65; id. op. cit. 1834, p. 43; Stanley, torn. 



cit. p. 41 ; Jardine and Selby, Ulust. Orn. ser. 2, pi. viii.* [no pagination] ; Hartlaub, 



Arch. f. Naturgesch. 1852, i. p. 137; Dole, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xii. p.. 305 (1869); id. 



Hawaiian Alman. 1879, p. 54 ; Pelzeln, Verh. z.-b. Gesellsch. Wien, 1873, p. 159. 

 Anser hawaiiensis, Eydoux & Souleyet, Voy. ' Bonite,' Zool. i. p. 104, pi. 10 * (1841). 

 Anser hauaiensis, Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped., Birds, p. 249, pi. lix * (1848). 

 Anser hawaiensis, Hartlaub, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 1852, i. p. 122. 

 Bernicla sandwich ensis, Cassin, U.S. Expl. Exped., Mamm. & Orn. p. 338 (1858) ; G. R. Gray, Cat. 



B. Trop. Isl. p. 54 (1859) . 

 Branta (Leucopareia) sandwicliensis, G. R. Gray, Hand-1. B. iii. p. 76 (1871). 



* Figures notabiles. 



Vigoes, as cited above, was apparently the first author to give a specific name to the 

 Sandwich Island Goose, a pair of which were presented to the Zoological Society of 

 London by Lady Glengall in 1833 ; but the birds had been noticed before that time 

 both by Ellis and Bloxam. The former author writes : — " Upon our first arrival at 

 Karacacooah Bay, the natives brought off several Geese, which were quite tame ; they 

 were not unlike the Chinese Geese ; they called them Na-na." To this account Latham 

 also refers, as noted below 1 , under the account of Anser cygnoides. Bloxam merely 

 mentions " wild geese and ducks of a small size " during the voyage of the ' Blonde,' 

 and did not apparently obtain specimens ; but Eydoux and Souleyet, while cruising in 

 the ' Bonite,' were more successful, and, thinking that they had made a new dis- 

 covery, figured it and named it Anser hawaiiensis. Peale, who repeatedly observed the 

 bird, also called it after the island on which he found it, in ignorance of the previous 

 accounts ; but Cassin, when editing that author's work, seems to have been aware of 

 the prior claims of A. sandvicensis. Herr Kraus, as stated by von Pelzeln, also noticed 

 it during the Austrian Mission to Eastern Asia and America in 1870,. 



An interesting account is given by the then Lord Stanley, in the ' Proceedings ' of the 

 Zoological Society of London for 1834, of the breeding of some of these birds at 



i Of. Latham, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 448 ; id. Gen. Hist. B. x. p. 238. 



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