266 Messrs. E. L. and E. L. C. Layard on 



rouzier/ reprinted in tlie ' Moniteur de la N. Caledonie/ 

 May 1877. He gives a list of the birds, reptiles, shells, 

 insects, and plants observed by him. Of the first, he notices 

 Sula bassana, Tachypetes aquilus, Phaeton Candidas, P. phoe- 

 nicurus, Rallus pectoralis ('^ dont les paillettes sont plutot 

 fauves que blanches, et dont la chair est d^un gout detes- 

 table"!!), "un Sterne noir-brun a calotte blanche," and 

 the new (?) Frigate-bird, which he designates Tachypetes 

 chambeyroni, and thus describes : — 



" Taille de la Eregate commune, d'un noir-brun, plumes 

 au-dessus du dos longues, irisees, a reflets metalliques; un 

 volumineux jabot place sous la gorge, pouvant se gonfler, d^uu 

 rouge de sang, garni k la base de quelques plumes rares, 

 courtes, distantes, et de tuberculosites analogues k celle de la 

 tete du Dindon." 



[I have compared specimens from nearly every group, and 

 feel satisfied that they must all be referred to T. minor, and 

 that no third species of Tachypetes exists. — H. B. T.] 



101. Anas superciliosa, Gm. 



This is the only Duck we have yet seen ; but Capt. Hutton, 

 in his ' Catalogue of the Birds of New Zealand,^ p. 36, adds 

 to our avifauna 



QUERQUEDULA GIBBERIFRONS, Miillcr. 



This makes a total of twenty-three additions to M. Marie^s 

 list ; and if we eliminate Nos. 35 and 69, to which no titles 

 are given, we shall have a total of 127 species in our supposed 

 avifauna — a number considerably in excess of that of Fiji as 

 at present known to us. 



106. PODICEPS GULARIS, Gould. 



M. Jouan describes a Dabchick (No, 53 of his ' Notes ') 

 which answers well to the Australian bird. One was shot 

 while E. L. L. was at Honailou, but, unfortunately, was not 

 shown to him till it appeared on the dinner-table ! Its size 

 answered to P. gularis, which we have from Australia ; but 

 not a feather could be found for identification. 



An analysis of the genera of birds found in New Caledonia, 

 Fiji, and Australia, gives us the following results : — 



