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urements of this specimen are as follows: — wing 59.2; tail 38.2; 

 exposed culmen 11.0; tarsus 20.0. 



Though the plate given by Finsch is marked po7iapensis, in the 

 original description of this bird the name is given as Zosterops pona- 

 penensis. 



PLOCEIDAE. 



LONCHURA CASTANEOTHORAX (GoULD). 



Amadina castaneothorax Gould, Synop. birds Australia, 1837, pt. 2, pi. 21. 

 (Cairns, Queensland). 



A bird marked questionably as a female was taken at Tahiti in the 

 Society Islands, 3 October. It has the under tail coverts white 

 with brownish bases. An adult male was secured at Bora Bora in 

 the same group, 17 November. This introduced species does not 

 seem to have been recorded previously. 



93. Aegintha temporalis (Latham). 



Fringilla temporalis Latham, Ind. ornith. Suppl., 1801, p. xlviii. (New South 

 Wales). 



A male was secured at Tahiti, in the Society Islands, 13 Novem- 

 ber, and two females were collected the following day. This is an 

 introduced form that does not seem to have been recorded here pre- 

 viously. 



