THE 



BIRDS OF 



PRINCIPAL LITERATURE 



BEFEREING TO THE 



THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 



1780. Forster, G. Gottinger Mag. Wissenschaften, i. (6) p. 346. 



Description of " Certhia coccinea " (our present Vestiaria coccinea) from specimens brought to Cassel by 

 Barthold Lohmann, who had sailed with Cook's last expedition. 



1781-1785. Latham, John. Gen. Synopsis of Birds. 



A number of species are described for the first time, apparently all, or nearly all, from Cook's Voyages. 

 These birds received afterwards scientific names from Gmelin (Syst. Nat.), and from Latham himself, in the 

 'Index Ornithologicus ' (1787). (Cf. Chlorodrepanis virens, Drepanis pacifica, Himatione sanguinea, Psitti- 

 rostra psittacea, Phceornis obscura, Loocops coccinea, Chasiempis sandwichensis , Hemignathus obscurus, Pennula 

 sandwichensis.) 



[See also the Supplement to the ' General Synopsis/ and the same author's much later ' General History 

 of Birds' (1821-1824).] 



1782. Ellis, Will. Narrat. Yoy. Capt. Cook & Clerke, vol. ii. p. 156. 



Mr. William Ellis describes himself in this "irregularly published narrative " as " Assistant-Surgeon to 

 both vessels." A uumber of poor drawings of birds from his hand— among them that of the extinct Pennvla 

 sandwichensis — are in the British Museum, His narrative is not important to ornithologists. 



1784. King, James. Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, vol. iii- pp. 119, 120. 



A few short notes of little importance. The Drepanis pacifica, Vestiaria coccinea, Corvus tropicus, 

 Himatione sanguinea, Psittirostra psittacea, and Moho nobilis can be recognized with absolute certainty. 

 Cook's ships landed only on Hawaii, Kauai, and Niihau. Some of the skins of this voyage are still preserved 

 in the Liverpool, Cambridge, and Vienna Museums, and also probably in Gottingen. 



1784. Merrem, B. Beytrage bes. Gesch. d. Vogel, fasc. i. p. 8, pi. ii. p. 14, pi. iv. 



First scientific notice of our present Moho nobilis (sub nomine Gracula nobilis) published. Also figure 

 and description of Vestiaria coccinea, sub nomine Mellisuga coccinea. 



[1786. Merrem : Avium rariorum et minus cognitarum, Icones et Descriptioncs — the same in Latin !] 



1789. Dixon, G. A Voyage round the World in the King George ' and 



' Queen Charlotte.' 



On pages 55-61 the stay in the Sandwich Islands, principally Oahu, is described. In the Appendix, on 

 plate 8 is distinctly figured, under the name of " Yellow Tufted Bee Eater," the extinct Moho apicalis ! 

 Latham's description of the " Yellow Tufted Bee Eater " is copied, but the author " takes the liberty to add, 

 that the specimen from which the annexed engraving was made differed from that described by Latham in 

 having all the tail-feathers spotted with white at the ends" ! 



