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the beach of Santa Cruz Island in 1897, and presented by him to 

 the Trustees. So unlike any other described species does it 

 appear that 1 have considered that even such imperfect material 

 should be utilised. 



The brothers Adams, in grouping the recent species of Lima, 

 set apart under the subgenus Ctenoides of Klein, L. scabra, Born, 

 and L. tenera, Chemnitz, distinguished, among other features, by 

 a sculpture of " ribs divaricate, meeting in the centre." Our 

 novelty appears to find its nearest relations with these. More 

 recently described species embraced by this character are : — L. 

 albicoma, Dall., L. concentrica, Sowerby, and L. murrayi, Smith. 

 L. alata appears to be longer than any of its immediate kin, 

 witli which I am not autopically acquainted, and to differ from 

 any recent Lima in the development and sinuation of the anterior 

 auricle. 



ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES. 

 Bv Alfred J. North, C.M.Z.S., Ornithologist. 



IV.— On a species of PIGEON frequenting the ATOLLS 

 OF THE ELLICE GROUP. 



For nearly a quarter of a century various observers and writers 

 have made reference to a species of Pigeon frequenting the Ellice 

 Group. As I pointed out in my brief notes on the birds brought 

 back from Funafuti by Mr. Hedley,* I could find no recoi'd of 

 adult specimens having been obtained, but there was little doubt 

 that the birds seen by Mr. Jansen on Funafuti in 1876, and by 

 Mr. C. R. Swayne on Niu in 1895, were correctly identified by 

 them as Glohicera pacifica. 



Prior to the departure of the Coral-Boring Expedition for 

 Funafuti last year, I urged the desirability of procuring one or 



* Austr. Mus. Mem. iii.— Atoll of Funafuti, pt. 1, Aves, 1896, p. 86. 



