The United States Territory of Hawaii

Abstract

THE first article in the “Fauna Hawaiiensis” is entitled “Introduction, being a Review of the Land-Fauna of Hawaiia.” Dr. Brigham's quarrel is hence with the writer of that article, and with the editor of the fauna, not with me. I should have expected “Hawaiia” to meet with his approval as against the rather cumbrous title, United States Territory of Hawaii, a title taken from the name of the largest island. The islands from Niihau to Hawaii stand on an isolated plateau in the ocean, and represent a geographical group; the name “Hawaiia,” I consider, may quite usefully be applied to them. A name will also have to be adopted for the islands between Nihoa and Lisiansky, which form a similar group; these I frequently find in maps included in the Hawaiian Islands.