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Show 1877.] DR. O. FINSCH ON THE BIRDS OF PONAPE. 781 primaries are not cinnamon, but dull rusty brown, and the wings are a trifle longer (about | inch). The female differs a good deal from a Sumatran specimen ; the back, wings, and remainder of upper parts are blackish, nearly without rusty vermiculations; the wing-feathers are externally broadly edged with fulvous, which is the prominent coloration of underparts ; the flank-feathers are margined with blackish ; the feet are yellow (not dark, as in the Sumatran specimen). Although no particulars are given, I am inclined to believe that the differences which this bird shows are due to a domestic state. 19. CHARADRIUS FULVUS, Gm.; Finsch, /. c. p. 38. In Mr. Kubary's first collection. 20. STREPSILAS INTERPRES, L. One male in winter dress, the other nearly in full plumage. Ponape is a new locality for this cosmopolitan species. 21. ARDEA SACRA, Gm. ; Finsch, I. c. p. 38. One white specimen (labelled female), and one slate-blue (also marked female). The latter shows only a few faint traces of white feathers along the middle of the chin. 22. ACTITIS INCANA (Gm.); Finsch, I. c. p. 38. Sent previously by Mr. Kubary. 23. STERNA BERGII, Licht. Male and female exactly alike. Ponape is a new locality for this Tern. 24. STERNA FULIGINOSA, Gm.; Finsch, I. c. p. 39. In the former collection of Mr. Kubary. 25. ANOUS STOLIDUS (L.), I. c. p. 40. The specimen sent by Mr. Kubary confirms m y suggestion as regards the supposed A. pileatus in the Vienna Museum, collected during the voyage of the ' Novara,' near Ponape. 26. ANOUS LEUCOCAPILLUS, Gould. A. leucocapillus, Saunders, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 670, t. Ixi. f. 3. A. tenuirostris, Finsch (nee Temm.), pt., Journ. Mus. God. Heft viii. (1875) p. 42. One specimen, a young one, with not fully developed wings, but in the full colour of the adult; the sides of the head are uniform black, and not tinged with grey, this being, according to Mr. Saunders, a chief point of distinction in A. melanogenys. I may remark that in a good series of Sooty Terns, from Palau, which are A. melanogenys, Gould, - A. tenuirostris, Kittl. (not of Temminck, as given erroneously by me), there were two young birds, corresponding in size and colour with the one before me, which also PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1877, No. LI. 51 |