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Show 22 MESSRS. H A R T L A U B A N D FINSCH [Jan. 3, Dr. Graffe collected several years ago for Mr. Godeffroy, has nearly unexplored. Only two of its birds are known- namely Carpophaga pacifica and the remarkable Didunculus strigirostris. Although this latter rare bird is wanting amongst the collections sent by Mr. Kubary, we have had the pleasure to find in them a quite new grallatorial form, our Pareudiastes, remarkable for the shortness of its wings, which remind one of those of Habro-ptila. The other species collected by Mr. Kubary are all identical with species from Upolu. The small island Rarotonga, onlv eight geographical miles in circumference (?), situated in 21° 22'S. lat. and 159° 54' W . long., belongs to the Cook, or Hervey group, and has, as far as we know, never been explored by naturalists. Of the seven species of birds collected by Mr. Garrett in this island, three prove to be new, namely Monarches dimidiatus, Aplonis cinerascens, and Ptilinopus rarotongensis ; the others are widely distributed well-known Pacific birds. We regret that neither of these collectors, whom we have the pleasure of first introducing to public notice, give any notes concerning the habits, breeding, and other peculiarities of these birds. Such additions would have made our paper still more interesting and valuable. Mr. Andrew Garrett is an American, who has been collecting already several years for the Smithsonian Institution and for the Cambridge Museum, U. S. A. For two years he has been employed for the Museum Godeffroy, and has explored the Paumotu archipelago and the Viti group. A large collection from the latter locality has been lost, unfortunately, by shipwreck. Mr. Kubary is a Polish gentleman from Warsaw, who was a student of medicine, but was obliged to abandon his country, and was sent in April 1869 by Mr. Godeffroy to the Pacific. Species from Savai. 1. STRIX DELICATULA, Gould; Finsch et Hartl. Ornith. Centr. Polyn. p. 11. One specimen (female), agreeing entirely with specimens from Upolu and the Vitis. Long. al. caud. culm. tars. dig. med 9" 6'" 4" 0'" 9^'" 2" 3'" 14'" (Savai ) 10 0 4 3 10| 2 2\ 15 (Savai.) "Irides black; bill hornish grey. Native name, O le lulu." (Kubary.) From Savai we have already received this species in 1868, in a collection made by Dr. (iraffe. 2. CORIPHILUS FRINGILLACEUS fGmel.); Finsch et Hartl / c p. 25. Nine specimens, amongst them males and females, which are alike in every respect, as already stated by Dr. Pickering. There is no |