HUGUES, pg, DOMINICIrE .JEAN BAPTISTE (1549—). A French sculptor. born at Marseilles. He studied under Dummt and Bonnassieux at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and made his first sue ccss with a bas-relief of Homer, in 1875. His works have frequently appeared in the Salon, such as "Le bapteme du Christ" (1878) ; "CEdipe it Col one" ( 1882 ) and ".feune Romaine" (1889) ; and he contributed "L'Asie" (1886) to the decoration of the Paris Hotel de Ville.
HtHNE, BERNHA RD ( 1547-1611). A German navigator in the service of Spain. He was horn in Heidelberg. and by 1599 was head pilot of the Spanish colonies of North America. whence he embarked on the Pacific with Juan Fernandez (1600), to discover an outlet into Bering Sea, as California was then considered an island. The first voyage resulted merely in strife with the aborigines, but the following year 'lane set out alone. and though he did not find the mythical wealthy city of Anlan, which Philip Ill. had bidden him seek, he explored the Gulf of California. and made charts of it most useful to later navigators.
HUIA (hc'ya) BIRD (Maori name). A re markable bird of New Zealand (Heteroloeha Gouldi), now considered one of the starling fam ily, and approaching extinction, because it is confined to the limited forests of certain moun tain ranges, and is constantly pursued as a cage bird or as a curiosity, and also by the natives.
who regard its tail-feathers as a proper badge of mourning. It is about the size of an American thrush, and both sexes are glossy green-black, excepting a white terminal band upon the tail and the large rounded wattles at the gape, which are orange-red. Their ivory-white bills, however. differ to a degree unknown elsewhere among birds. That of the female is long. slender. curved, and hoopoe-like: that of the male only half as long and much straighter and shorter. Sir William Buller has described the species very fully (Birds of New Zealand, London, 2d ed. MS). He says its favorite food is the grub of a large. timber-boring beetle. The male bird, with his short, stout bill, attacks the more de cayed portions of the wood and chisels out his prey, while the female. with her long, slender bill, probes the holes in the sounder part, the hardness of which resists the male's weapon: and elsewhere she obtains for him grubs beyond his reach. It is not surprising to learn. in view of this co6perative work. that the pairs are de voted companions, and when one has been cap tured the other is easily taken. These birds nest in hollow trees.