12 BULLETIN" 98, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



ANNOTATED LIST OF BIRDS. 



Family FREGATIDAE. 



* FREGATA MINOR MINOR (Gmelin).> 



[Pelecanus] minor Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 572 (no locality: type 

 region designated by Rothschild as eastern half of Indian Ocean). 



Observed in the Anamba Islands by C. B. Kloss, 2 but not reported 

 by Doctor Abbott. 



Family ARDEIDAE. 



* BUTORIDES JAVANICUS JAVANICUS (Horsfield). 



Ardea Javanica Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., vol. 13, 1821, p. 190 (Java). 

 Recorded from the Anamba Islands by C. B. Kloss. 2 



* DEMIEGRETTA SACRA SACRA (Gmelin). 



[Ardea] sacra Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 640 (Tahiti Island, Society 

 Islands). 



Recorded from the Anamba Islands by C. B. Kloss. 2 

 Family BUTEONIDAE. 



* CUNCUMA LEUCOGASTRIS (Gmelin). 



[Falco] leucogaster Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 1, 1788, p. 257 (no locality: 

 type-locality given by Mathews as New South Wales, Australia). 



No specimens of this species were obtained, but it was observed by 

 Doctor Abbott on Pulo Riabu, August 18, 1899; on Pulo Siantan be- 

 tween August 19 and September 13, 1899; on Pulo Telaga, September 

 14 to 15, 1899; and on Pulo Jimaja between September 17 and 28, 

 1899. 



Family ARENARIIDAE. 



ARENARIA INTERPRES OAHUENSIS (Bloxham). 



Tringa oahuensis Bloxham, in Byron's Voy. Blonde, Sandwich Ids., 1826, p. 251 

 (Sandwich [i. e. Hawaiian] Islands). 



One male, No. 171011, U.S.N.M.; Pulo Mata, August 29, 1899. 

 Length, 235 mm. This specimen is apparently immature; and it is 

 molting some of the wing feathers. 



Mr. Mathews is apparently quite right in separating the Pacific 

 turnstone from that of Europe, 3 for it differs from the latter, as he 

 says, in smaller size and deeper shade of the chestnut-colored por- 

 tions of the upper surface. The earliest available name is that 

 selected by Mr. Mathews and here used. It might be well to men- 

 tion, however, that if the date of Pallas' " Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica " 

 be 1811, as some contend, the proper subspecific designation of this 

 turnstone would probably be cinclus, from CJtaradrius cinclus Pallas. 4 



1 Species prefixed with an asterisk are not represented in Doctor Abbott's collection. 



s Journ. Straits Branch Roy. Asiatic Soc, No. 41, January, 1904, p. 80. 



3 Birds Australia, vol. 3, pt. 1, Apr. 2, 1913, pp. 5-10. 



« Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., vol. 2 (1811?), 1826, p. 148 (Siberia). 



