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AVIFAUNA OF LAYSAN, ETC. 



description would have been behind that of Wilson's H. stejnegeri, which appeared in November, had it not 

 appeared in the 'Vossische Zeitung' of September 14th !! (see editorial note, J. f. O. 1889, p. 331). The 

 October number of the J. f. 0. did not appear in October. 



1889. Wilson, Scott B. Description of some new Species of Sandwich-Island Birds. (Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond. pp. 445-447.) 



Chrysomitridops, Loxops, Himatione. 



1890. Berlepscii & Leverkuhn. Ornis, vol. vi. pp. 2-4. 



About Chasiempis. The authors having only material from Oahu (Kiel Museum, Belm coll.), erroneously 

 united the forms from the various islands. 



1890. Wilson, S. B. On some of the Birds of the Sandwich Islands. (Ihis, pp. 170-196, 

 pi. vi.) 



Hemignathus hanapepe and H. stejnegeri. 



1890. Wilson, S. B. On a new Finch from Midway Island, North Pacific. (Ibis, p. 33, pi. ix.) 



Telespiza cantans, erroneously said to have come from Midway Island. 



1891. Wilson, Scott B. On the Muscicapine Genus Chasiempis, with a Description of a 

 new Species. (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 164.) 



1891. Wilson, Scott B. Description of a new Species of the Genus Himatione. (Ibid, 

 p. 166.) 



1891. Wilson, Scott B. Descriptions of two new Species of Sandwich-Island Birds. (Ann. 

 & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. vii. p. 460.) 



Himatione mana and Phmornis lanayensis. 



1892. Wallace, A. R. Chapter XV. " The Sandwich Islands," in < Island-Life,' 2nd edition, 

 pp. 310-329. 



On pp. 314-315 a list of 37 Passeres then known is given. That this is incomplete and not without 

 errors is only natural, considering how much we have learnt since 1892, but it is a valuable list. The 

 impression of the author is (p. 316) that the affinities of the Sandwich-Island Birds "are chiefly with 

 Australia and the Pacific Islands ; but they exhibit in the buzzard, one of the owls l , and perhaps in some 

 of the Drepanidida, slight indications of very rare or very remote communication with America." In my 

 opinion, however, the American element is more recent. 



[See also Wallace's < Island Life/ 1st edition, 1880-81.] 



1892. Bothschild, W. Descriptions of seven new Species of Birds from the Sandwich 

 Islands. (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. x. pp. 108-112.) 



Two new genera— Rhodacanthis and Viridonia— established ; seven new species, of which two — Bernicla 

 munroii and Telespiza flavissima—are not valid. 



1 This is based on the erroneous statement of Cassin, that the Short-eared Owl of the Sandwich Islands is the 

 Oalapagos Island form. 



