Island Life; Or, The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and FlorasWallace, Alfred Russel
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Island Life; Or, The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Biogeography; Glacial epoch; Island ecology
12. _Drepanis pacifica_ (extinct) Hawaii.
13. _Vastiaria coccinea_ All the Islands.
14. _Hiniatione vireus_ Hawaii.
15. ,, _dolii_ Maui.
16. ,, _sanguinea_ All the Islands.
17. ,, _montana_ Lanai.
18. ,, _chloris_ Oahu.
19. ,, _maculata_ Oahu.
20. ,, _parva_ Kauai.
21. ,, _stejnegeri_ Kauai.
22. _Oreomyza bairdi_ Kauai.
23. _Hemignathus obscurus_ Hawaii.
24. ,, _olivaceus_ Hawaii.
25. ,, _lichtensteini_ Oahu.
26. ,, _lucidus_ Oahu.
27. ,, _stejnegeri_ Kauai.
28. ,, _hanapepe_ Kauai.
29. _Loxops coccinea_ Hawaii.
30. ,, _flammea_ Molokai.
31. ,, _aurea_ Maui.
32. _Chrysomitridops coeruleorostris_ Kaui.
33. ,, _anna_ (extinct)
FRINGILLIDAE (Finches).
34. _Loxioides bailleni_ Hawaii.
35. _Psittirostra psittacea_ All the Islands.
36. _Chloridops kona_ Hawaii.
CORVIDAE (Crows).
37. _Corvus hawaiiensis_ Hawaii.
Many of the birds recently described are representative forms found in the
several islands of the group.
Taking the above in the order here given, we have, first, two peculiar
genera of true flycatchers, a family confined to the Old World, but
extending over the Pacific as far as the Marquesas Islands. Next we have
two peculiar genera (with four species) of honeysuckers, a family confined
to the Australian region, and also ranging over all the Pacific Islands to
the Marquesas. We now come to the most important group of birds in the
Sandwich Islands, comprising seven or eight peculiar genera, and twenty-two
species which are believed to form a peculiar family allied to the Oriental
flower-peckers (Diceidae), and perhaps remotely to the American greenlets
(Vireonidae), or {316} tanagers (Tanagridae). They possess singularly
varied beaks, some having this organ much thickened like those of finches,
to which family some of them have been supposed to belong. In any case they
form a most peculiar group, and cannot be associated with any other known
birds. The last species, and the only one not belonging to a peculiar
genus, is the Hawaiian crow, belonging to the almost universally
distributed genus Corvus.
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