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wanting on the breast, the white spots of the scapularies absent, those on the wing- 

 coverts smaller, and those on the tertiaries also smaller, and tinged with rufous ; the 

 primaries also are less conspicuously banded with rufous. 



[Xos. 126, 127, males. Eyes red; upper mandible dark, the lower with a slight red 

 tinge ; feet light brown. Stomach contained beetles, egg-shells, and small calcareous 

 particles.] 



VI. — On the Birds collected in the Sandwich Islands. By 

 P. L. Sclater, M.A., Pb.D., F.B.S. 



(Plates XXL, XXII.) 



(Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 1878. With additions by the author.) 



The Challenger arrived in Hilo Bay, Owhyhee, on the 14th of August 1875, and left 

 on the 19 th of the same month. 



The skins of birds collected were twenty-four in number, belonging to thirteen 

 species. They were all obtained " within eight miles of the town." 



Tbe collection, although small, and containing nothing absolutely new except a single 

 Anas, is of interest, as it enables us to record the actual island of the Sandwich group 

 upon which the species contained in it were found, and as it includes an example of the 

 little-known Buteo solitarius of Peale. 



The most complete account of the avifauna of the Hawaiian groups of islands is that 

 given by Mr Sanford B. Dole in 1869 in the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural 

 History. 1 On this article I commented at some length in a paper published in the litis 

 for 1871. 2 Mr Dole has since published a revised List of the Birds of the Hawaiian 

 Islands in the Hawaiian Annual,' 3 and M. Oustalet has lately described a peculiar new 

 form from the same locality. 4 Finally, I have written some further remarks on the same 

 subject in the Ibis of 1879. 5 



From these different' sources we are now accpaainted with about fifty species as 

 inhabitants of these islands, of wdiich about one-half are peculiar to the group. But 

 there remain, no doubt, many other species to be discovered in the interior. In the 

 interests of science it is highly desirable that steps should be taken for the better 



1 Synopsis of the Birds hitherto described from the Hawaiian Islands. By S. B. Dole, Proc. Boston. Soc, N. II, 

 vol. xii. p. 294. 



2 Remarks on the Avifauna of the Sandwich Islands. By P. L. Sclater, Ibis, 1871, p. 356. 



3 See Ibis, 1880, p. 248, for a notice of this publication. 



4 Loxio'ides bailleui : vide Bull. Soc. Phil, de Paris, 7 me ser., torn. i. p. 99. 



5 On Recent Additions to out Knowledge of the Avifauna of the Sandwich Islands. By P. L. Sclater, Ibis, 1878, 

 p. 89. 



