. Aves Hawaiienses : the birds of the Sandwich Islands. Birds. imply a wide and general range, while Peale omitted it entirely, though his party obtained the examples vouched for by Cassin. Gmelin called the bird Loxia psittacea, and, as will be seen from Dr. Gadow's ' Remarks' in this work, it is truly Fringilline and is near Loxioides, though belonging to a different genus, which Temminck rightly felt justified in separating in 1820 under the title of Psittirostra: I agree, however, with that author's later opinion that the more correct form is Psittacirostra, which was accepted at a subsequ
. Aves Hawaiienses : the birds of the Sandwich Islands. Birds. imply a wide and general range, while Peale omitted it entirely, though his party obtained the examples vouched for by Cassin. Gmelin called the bird Loxia psittacea, and, as will be seen from Dr. Gadow's ' Remarks' in this work, it is truly Fringilline and is near Loxioides, though belonging to a different genus, which Temminck rightly felt justified in separating in 1820 under the title of Psittirostra: I agree, however, with that author's later opinion that the more correct form is Psittacirostra, which was accepted at a subsequent date by Cuvier. In his ' Manuel,' Temminck made the mistake of considering the female, of which he had only a drawing, to be a distinct species; but when figuring it in the ' Planches Coloriees' he corrected the error*, Latham in his ' General History of Birds ' having meanwhile drawn attention to it. In the former author's own copy of the catalogue of the sale of the Bullock Collection (23rd day), a single specimen of this bird is marked " £1 Is.—genre nouveau : " in another copy, with annotations supposed to be in Latham's handwriting, the same example is marked " Lichtenstein ; " but this is probably a mistake, as the genus does not occur in Lichtenstein's " Verzeichniss," and therefore presumably was not in the Berlin Museum in 1823. Temminck, moreover, in the 'Planches Coloriees,' remarks: " Le Musee des Pays-Bas possede les sujets achetes a la vente du Bullockian Museum, a Londres," where " sujets " is in the plural. This would indicate that the Museum of the Netherlands contained more examples than one, though whether they all came from Bullock's collection must remain somewhat doubtful. A male and female are also in the Derby Museum at Liverpool (marked 1829 and 1829 a in Lord Derby's old catalogue), while W. W. Ellis has a drawing of the bird among those preserved in the British Museum (No. 79, " 1779 "
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