ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES — NORTH. 87 



The following is a list of the birds recorded up to date, that 

 frequent these atolls, brought so much into prominence by the 

 recent coral-boring expeditions : — 



Urodynamis taitensis ^trepsilas iiderpres 



Fregata aqui/a Limosa nnvce-zealandice 



Demiegretta sacra Anous stolidus 



Globicera pacifica Micranous leucocapillus 



*Carpophaga pistrinaria Procehterna ccerulea 

 Charadrius fulviis Sterna ancestheta 



Totanus incanus Sterna nielanauchen 



Nunienius tahitensis Gygis Candida 



v.— On the occurrence of BUTASTUR TEES A in 

 AUSTRALIA. 



Some time ago Mr. Richard Grant of Lithgow, presented a skin 

 of Butastur teesa to the Trustees, accompanied by the following 

 note : " With regard to this Hawk, I shot it in a ring-barked 

 tree, near the Bowenfels road, Lithgow. I do not know the 

 exact date, but as near as I can remember it was in November 

 1889. I skinned it, also some Brown Hawks, that I shot the 

 same day, and partly filled the skins out and put them away. I 

 took no further notice of them until my brother returned home 

 and drew my attention to this bird's plumage." Lithgow is 

 situated in a valley of tkie Blue Mountains, .3007 feet above the 

 level of the sea, and 96 miles west of Sydney. Buiastur teesa, 

 the White-eyed Buzzard Eagle is very abundant in some parts of 

 India, which is the habitat of this species, but I can find no record 

 of its having been obtained on any of the islands lying between 

 India and Australia. B. liventer, which occurs in Java and Timor, 

 or B. indicus, inhabiting Borneo, Sumatra, and the Phillipines, I 

 should not have been so much surprised at obtaining on the 

 Australian continent. The specimen of B. teesa procured at 

 Lithgow, is similar to others in the collection from India, except 

 in showing very little trace of the white mottlings on the wing- 

 coverts. It is not in full adult plumage, for the sides of the 

 throat and the spots on the breast are white instead of vellowish- 

 white, otherwise it agrees with the description of the adult female 

 given by Dr. Sharpef in the " Catalogue of Birds in the British 

 Museum." 



VL— On A LIVING EXAMPLE of PSEPBOTUS CHRY- 

 SOPTERYGIUS. 



Regarding this species, Gould, who described it, writes in his 

 Handbook to the Birds of Australia,; as follows : — "One of the 



* On the authority of Mr. Gardiner. 



t Sharpe— Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., i., p. 295, (1874). 



X Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., ii., p. 65 (1865). 



