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the Minneapolis Public Library, which acquired it from the Minnesota 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, where it was No. 3533 of the Menage 

 Collection. 

 316130. Adult male. Tataan, Tawitawi Island, Sulu Province, Philippine 

 Islands. October 19, 1891. Collected by Dean C. Worcester and Frank 

 S. Bourns. Received from the Minneapolis Public Library, which ac- 

 quired it from the Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences, where it 

 was No. 3532 of the Menage Collection. 

 No. 316129 has lost the collectors' label, on which was presumably found 



full data. The exhibition label it now bears gives only the information listed 



above. 



Peristera pectoralis Peale 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm. and Orn.) : 205, "pi. Lix," 1848. 

 =Gallicolumba erythroptera (Gmelin). See Murphy, Amer. Mus. Nov. 

 115:8,9, 1924. 



15740. Adult female. Carlshoff Island=Aratika Island (lat. 15°33'25'' 

 S., long. 145°39' W.), Tuamotu Islands, Oceania. September 3, 1839. 

 Original number 580. U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). 



15741. Adult female. Carlshoff Island=Aratika Island, Tuamotu Islands, 

 Oceania. September 3, 1839. Original number 580. U.S. Exploring 

 Expedition (1838-1842). 



Genus DIDUNCULUS Peale 



Didunculus slrigirostris Peale 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm. and Orn.) : 209, "pi. LX," 1848. 

 =Didunculus slrigirostris (Jar dine). See Salvadori, Catalogue of the 



birds in the British Museum 21 : 626, 1893. 

 14806. Adult (sex not indicated). Upolu Island (lat. 13°46' S., long. 

 171°20' W.), Samoan Islands, Oceania. Original number 557. U.S. 

 Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). 

 Three specimens were taken, of which one (presumably the young "covered 

 with a sepia-coloured down") was lost by the wreck of a ship. Peale's 

 description was based upon an adult male and an adult female, and entries 

 for the two are found in the museum register; No. 21854, however, has 

 vanished without trace. 



This bird had been named Gnathodon slrigirostris by Jardine three years 

 earlier, and while Peale used Jardine's specific name, he credited it to him- 

 self. Peale, in fact, knew of Jardine's description (see p. 209, footnote), 

 "but the authorities who had the work in charge made him describe as new 

 everything that was new at the time the Expedition collected it! This is 

 explained in Peale's suppressed introduction" {ex Richmond MS.). Our 

 specimen is then a type of slrigirostris of Peale only ! 



