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Show 1991.] ON THE BIRDS OF T H E PHCENIX ISLANDS. 289 DODONA EGEON. Taxila egeon, Doubl. & Hew. Gen. Diurn. Lep. ii. p. 422, t. 69. 2. Dodona egeon, Butt. Ind. ii. p. 314. Seems to be fairly common in the Karen Hills at 4000-5000 feet, and occurs also at Bemardmyo. The female is undescribed, and differs considerably from the male in having the yellow markings paler and much more diffused. I have females also from Kulu and Sikkim, which are somewhat darker than these. EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXVII. Fig. 1. Ypthima methora, Hew., 6 > P- 267. 2. Ypthima narasingha, Hew., J, p. 263. 3. Mycalesis clokertyi, n. sp„ 6 > P- 261. 4. Mycalesis dohertyi, n. sp., § , p. 261. 5. Araschnia jororzoides, Blanch., 6> P- 285. 6. Araschnia prorsoicles, Blanch., $,p. 285. 7. Neurosigma doubledayi, var. ?, 6, P- 277. 8. Bodona deodata, Hew., 6 > P- 288. 2. Notes on the Birds of the Phoenix Islands (Pacific Ocean). By J. J. LISTER, M.A., E.Z.S. [Received April 2, 1891.] The Phcenix Islands are a scattered group of low coral islands lying far out in the South Pacific Ocean, extending from 1° north of the Equator to nearly 5° south of it. They are within 10° to the east of the 180th parallel, which divides east longitude from west. There are eight islands south of the equator, viz. :-Sydney, Phcenix, Canton or Mary, Hull, Enderbury, Birnie, M'Kean, and Gardner Islands, and two outliers of the group to the north of it- Howland and Baker Islands. Situated in the dry, comparatively rainless belt which extends some degrees on either side of the Equator, they are uninhabited desolate places only frequented by sea-birds, which resort to them in innumerable multitudes for nesting \ The notices of birds of this group with which I am acquainted are the following ;-References to some of the islands as localities in Cassin's edition of the ' United States Exploring Expedition, Mammalogy and Ornithology,' and in the ' Fauna Centralpoly-nesiens' of Finsch and Hartlaub ; a description by Canon Tristram of an apparently new species of Duck (Dafila modesta, Tristram), and mention of "other birds collected by Mr. Arundel in Sydney 1 Of late years the islands have been turned to account as a source of guano. An interesting general description of these and other guano islands was read by Mr. J. T. Arundel, F.R.G.S., before the Geographical Society of the Pacific, in San Francisco. It was reprinted in the ' N e w Zealand Herald,' July 5 and 12, 1890. See also J. D. Hague, " O u the Guano Islands of the Pacific Ocean" (' Silliman's Journal,' xxxiv. 1862, pp. 224-243). PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1891, No. XIX. 19 |