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Show 1878.] FROM THE ELLICE ISLANDS. 273 Anous tereticollis, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 661 (1846). Procelsterna albivitta, Bp. C. R. xiii. p. 773 (1856); Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 420 (1865). Sterna cinerea, Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Sterner, p. 38 (1863). Anous albivitta, Gray, Handl. B. iii. p. 123, no. 11089 (1871). Anous cceruleus, Saunders, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 671 (nee Bennett). Diagn. : Major, suprd cinereus; pileo et collo undique et corpore subtus toto albicanti-cinereis ; secundariis conspicue albo terminatis ; subalaribus albis. Hab. In Australia septentrionali et orientali usque ad insulas Pa-cificas ** Friendly ' dictas. Dr. Finsch, in his paper read before the Society on the 20th of November last, records this species from Eua in the Friendly group. He recognizes the distinctness of the two species ; but there is no need to restore the name of Anous albivitta, as the title cinereus was given by Gould in 1845, and Neboux's A. cinereus was not published till 1846. 3. ANOUS STOLIDUS (L.) ; Saunders, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 669. Two specimens. 4. ANOUS LEUCOCAPILLUS, Gould; Saunders, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 670. A single example of a Noddy apparently referable to this species. 5. STERNA ANASTHETA (Scop.) ; Saunders, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 664. One specimen. 6. GYGIS CANDIDA (Gm.) ; Saunders, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 667. One specimen. Besides the above-named species there are some eggs, two of a Noddy Tern, sent with the skins of Anous stolidus and A. leucocapillus and probably belonging to the former, and three eggs apparently of a Duck. In one box were also two wings of a small Parrot. Note on the preceding Communication. By the Rev. S. J. W H I T M E E , F.R.G.S., C.M.Z.S. During 1876 Mr. Fritz Jansen, a Danish Botanical student who had been residing with me in Samoa for a year, collecting the flora of those islands, went on a cruise through several groups of islands to collect for me the flora and as much as possible of the fauna existing there. In addition to the birds included in the foregoing list, he saw a Carpophaga in the Ellice Islands ; and the Frigate-bird (Fre-gata aquila) also occurs there. In fact, the latter bird is domesticated by the natives; and when I was in those islands in 1870 I saw scores of them about the villages sitting on long perches erected for P R O C ZOOL. Soc-1878, No. XVIII. 18 |
