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Show 1875.] MR. E. L. LAYARD ON FIJIAN BIRDS. 441 secured, driven into Levuka by a hurricane which swept over the neighbouring sea. Eggs have been brought me, said to be of this species, from the island of Wailangilala, to the N.E. of the group. They vary in size, shape, and coloration ; a good average specimen is, axis 2", diam. 1" 5'". Dull white, more or less speckled, but chiefly in the form of a ring at the obtuse end, with reddish brown and light purple spots. ANOUS CINEREUS (Neb.); F. & II. op. cit. p. 239. I fancy I have seen this species up to windward; and eggs have been brought from an island to the N.W., called Nuku Levu, of a bird the men on it call the " Snowy Petrel," said to be this species. Colour a pale cream, profusely dotted with dark red-brown and lighter purple spots; axis 1" 5'", diam. 1", rather pointed at the small end. ANOUS LEUCOCAPILLUS, Gould ; F. & H. op. cit. p. 237. Found in flocks on the open seas between the islands. During gales it approaches the land; and several have been brought to me picked up exhausted on the beach in Ovalau. One was seen by me, very tired and hardly able to fly, the day after the hurricane of January 7th, 1875 ; and one was brought in by Mr. Winchcomb on the 9th, picked up on shore, very thin and exhausted. Bill black ; legs and webs dirty orange and black; iris brown ; tongue yellow. Eggs, from Wailangilala, are like those of S. panaya, only smaller (axis 1" 9'", diam. 1" 3'"), and spots fewer and larger. THALASSIDROMA MACGILLIVRAYI, G. R. Gray ; F. & H. op. cit. p. 242. PUFFINUS NUGAX (Solander); F. & H. op. cit. p. 242. PROCELLARIA CEERULEA, Gmel.; F. & H. op. cit. p. 246. Neither of these three species has been seen by me during my residence here. PHAETON ^ETHEREUS, Linn.; F. & H. op. cit. p. 250. I have seen tails of P. rubricauda in the hair of the natives on the Windward Islands (Loma Loma) ; but they may have been brought from Tonga. I fancied, however, I saw a Phaeton at a distance, far out to sea, when we were on the north coast of Vanua Levu. DYSPORUS SULA (Linn.); F. & H. op. cit. p. 260. Seen about Mango and the Windward Islands. A young bird driven on shore at Levuka during the hurricane that swept over the Jasawas. T A C H Y P E T E S AQUILA (Linn.); F. & H. op. cit. p. 265. Seen about the Windward Islands in February and October. During gales it is invariably seen about Levuka; and during the hurricane which prevailed iu the New Hebrides, and of which we felt the tail here in November last, the Frigate-birds sought the |
