An Extinct Goose from the Island of Hawaii

Abstract

In the course of engineering operations connected with the domestic water supply of P&ala on the Island of Hawaii, in 1926, fragmentary bones of a good-sized bird were obtained by W. 0. Clark. Through the United States Geological Survey these were forwarded to the United States National Museum. The specimens were taken from a tunnel at a depth of about 100 feet from the surface at a point approximately 1000 feet to the eastward of the shoulder of the mountain peak called Kaumaikeohu, which is shown in the northeastern corner of the Honuapa quadrangle of the Geological Survey topographic map of this area.