See letter from R. B. Hinds, 21 April 1843.

Cactornis inornatus, Gould. The species was interesting because Cactornis was previously known to inhabit only the Galápagos. Bow Island (now Hao) is in the Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia, over 3,000 miles west of the Galápagos. See Hinds, ed. 1844, 1: 42–3 and Plate 25. However, the plate is not by John Gould, but by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins. Cactornis inornatus is now classified as Pinaroloxias inornatus, Gould. The habitat has since been corrected to Cocos Island, south-west of Costa Rica, which HMS Sulphur visited and which CD surmised was likely to be its station (see Birds, p. 105). For the correction, see C. W. Richmond, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington [DC] 15 (1902): 247–8.