ORNITHOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS. 



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Savai (Hartlaub, Finscb) ; Fiji (Pealo, Waldeu). This is probably also 

 the species occurriug- ou the Hawaiian Islands. It may also be re- 

 marked that a bird recorded by Finsch aud Hartlaub from the Pelew 

 Islands seems to belong here. 



The true brevipes^ on the other hand, is a more Asiatic species, to which 

 is referable all or most of the records from Kamtschatka, Japan, Okotsk, 

 Baikal, Bonin Islands, Liu-Kiu Islands, Formosa, China, Philippine 

 Islands, probably also the Marianne and the Caroline Islands,* from 

 Borneo, Timur, Ceram, and Australia. 



Comparative table of dimensionn. 

 I.— HETERACTITIS INCANUS. 



82430* 



73441 



54602* 



92813 



92814* 



89077' 



89078* 



64272* 



87:44'- 



15724 



89640: 



92815; 



67321: 



87243 t 



75831: 

 21432; 



fielding. 

 Cooper . 



Nelson . 



Dall 



Stejneger 

 .. do.... 

 . . do . . . . 

 ...do.... 

 Elliott... 

 Goward.. 

 Pealet.- 

 Bendire . . 

 Stejneger 

 Streets . . 

 Goward . . 

 Nelson.. 

 ...do... 

 Gruber . . 



71 



3 



1649 

 2066 

 2067 

 1140 

 1141 



54 



1647 



12 



1292 

 475 

 21432 



Locality. 



Cerros Island, Cal... 



Slioalwater Bay, 

 W. T. 



Sannak Isl., Alaska. 



Nulato, Alaska 



Bering Island 



...do 



...do 



.. do 



St. George I., Alaska. 



Fyi Islands 



...do 



Fort Klamath, Oreg 



Bering Island 



Palmyra Island 



Fiji Islands 



Alaska 



....do 



Farallones, California, 



Apr. — , 1881 

 May 9, 1854 



May 15,1877 

 May 27,1868 

 May 29,1883 

 May 29, 1883 

 Juno 1, 1882 

 June 1, 1883 

 July 29, 1873 

 Summer 



Aug. 25, 1882 

 Sept. 20, 1882 



(Dec.) 

 Winter 



Average measurements of eighteen specimens 



mm. 

 170 

 166 



173 

 167 

 161 

 165 

 164 

 172 

 172 

 177 

 180 

 163 

 161 

 161 

 165 

 170 

 108 

 166 



mm,. 

 73 

 74 



77 

 73 

 77 

 73 

 74 

 78 

 77 

 77 

 79 

 70 

 68 

 72 

 80 

 80 

 78 

 80 



168 



mm- 



37 

 39 



38 

 38 

 39 

 37 

 35 

 39 

 38 

 39 

 42 

 36 

 37 

 38 

 38 

 38 

 36 

 38 



mm. mm. 



38 



34 



31 

 31 



31 

 31 

 31 

 31 

 32 

 31 

 31 

 31 

 32 

 29 

 30 

 31 

 31 

 32 

 31 

 30 



31 



* Cf. Finscli's statement about the birds collected by him ou the Eastern Carolines, 

 the Marshall, and Gilbert Islands : "Die Verfiirbnngsverhaltuissesiud sehr auft'alleud, 

 da Exemplare Mitte Jiini noc;h kcino Spur eiues Soumierkleides zeigen." (Viig. d. 

 Siidsee, p. 56 (1884)). Of course, the summer plumage which Finsch expected to see 

 is that of iucan us, while the siiecimens in question belong to brerijies ! 



