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32. DREPANIS PACIFICA (Gm.). 



« MAMO." 



Great Hook-billed Creeper, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 703 (1782) (types in the Leverian Museum: " Friendly 



Isles in South Seas") ; id. Suppl. p. 126 (1787) (" Common at Owhyhee "). 

 ? Hoohoo, King, Voy. Pacif. Oc. iii. p. 119, partim (1781). 



Certhia pacijica, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 470 (1788) (ex Latham) j Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 281 (1790) j Donudorff, 

 Orn. Beytr. i. p. G21 (1794); Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. viii. p. 227 (1812); Tiedemann, Anat. 

 Naturg. Vog. iv. p. 431 (1814) ; Peale,U.S. Expl. Exp., B. p. 149 (1848) ; Hartl. Arch. f. Naturg. 1832, 

 i. p. 109. 



Le Hoho, Vieili. Ois. Dor. ii. p. 121, pi. lxiii. (1802) ; Less. Corapl. Buff. ix. p. 156 (1837). 

 Le Merops jaunoir, Levaill. Hist. Promerops et des Guepiers, p. 45, pi. xix. (1807). 



Melithreptus pacificus, Vieili. Nouv. Diet. xiv. p. 323 (1817) ; id. Erie. Meth. p. 002 (1823) ; Cuv. Regne 

 An., ed. II. i. p. 433 (1829). 



Brepanis pacipca, Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. lxxxvi (1820) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 96 (1847) ; id. Cat. B. Trop. 

 Is. pp. 7 & 8 (1859) (« Friendly Islands [^Lath.] [?] ; Sandwich Islands (Owhyhee, Atoui or Atooi or 

 Atowi or Towi or Attoway or Tauai or Kauai) " [sic]); id. Hand-1. i. p. 113 ("Friendly Islands") 

 (1869) ; Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 403 (1850) ; Hartl. Arch. f. Naturg. i. p. 131; Reichb. Handb. spec. Orn. 

 p. 253, pi. 611. figs. 3828 & 3829 (1853) ; Dole, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. II. xii. p. 297 (1869) (" Hawaii, 

 Kauai") ; id. Hawaiian Alman. 1879, p. 45; Scl. Ibis, 1871, p. 368; id. Ibis, 1879, p. 92; Sund. Tent, 

 p. 48 (1872) ; Pelz. J. f. O. 1872, p. 26 (the two types of Latham from the Leverian Museum, now in 

 the Vienna Museum, are from Owaihi, marked as £ & ? , show no differences in size or colour !) ; id. 

 Ibis, 1873, p. 21 (same specimens mentioned ; they are probably from Cook's voyage) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. 

 x. p. 5 (1885); Lucas, Rep. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1888-89; Newton, Nature, 1892, p. 469; Wilson, Ibis, 

 1890, p. 178 (state-robes of feathers) ; id. & Evans, Aves Hawaiiens. pt. ii. plate & text (Sept. 1891) 

 (very complete history, etc. etc.) ; Gadow in Aves Hawaiiens. pt. ii. p. 10 (1891) ; Hartl. Abh. nat. Ver. 

 Bremen, xiv. p. 19 (1895) j id. Beitr. Gcsch. ausgest. Vog. (2 te Ausg.) p. 25 (1896). 



Vestiaria hoho, Less. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 269. 



Description o/Drepanis pacifica, taken from the two skins in my collection. 



Adult male. Black with a slight gloss. Rump and upper tail-coverts, the shoulders, the 

 ridge of the wing, the outer part of the under wing-coverts, thighs, vent, and under tail- 

 coverts, all of a beautiful rich yellow, hut paler on the ridge of the wing. The large 

 primary wing-coverts white, blackish brown at base. Under wing-coverts white, washed 

 with yellow on the outside. Primaries brownish black, outer web of the second (outer- 

 most) washed with ashy, the apical halves of the outer webs of the rest of the primaries 

 washed with ashy, more white towards the tips. Pectrices brownish black, the outer 



