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bird since the date of my notes on it already communicated 

 to the Zoological Society {vide P. Z. S. 1874, pp. 184, GOG). 



The following, which are included among Samoan birds by 

 Hartlaub and Finscli, are omitted in the foregoing list because 

 I have no certain personal knowledge of them. Some, I think, 

 I may yet obtain ; others, I think, are incorrectly attributed 

 to Samoa ; and others are doubtful species : — 



1. Myzomela jugularis, Peale; 2. Tartare longiros- 

 TRis (Gmel.) ; 3. Myiagra castaneiventris, Verr. ; 4. Pa- 



CIIYCEPHALA FLAVIFRONS, Pcalc j 5. P. ALBIFRONS, Pcalc ; 6. 



Amadina optata, P. & H. ; 7. Ptilonopus apicalis, Bp. ; 8, 

 CoLUMBA CASTANEicEPS, Pcalc ; 9. Megapodius stairii. Gray ; 

 10. Ortygometra tabuensis, Gmel. 



Of these, Ptilonopus apicalis, Columba castaneiceps, and 

 Megapodius stairii may be safely regarded as synonyms of 

 P. perousii, C. vitiensis, and M. pritchardi, Gray, respec- 

 tively. The type oiM. stairii was, I believe, sent from Samoa, 

 but was brought here from the island of Nina-fou, where M. 

 pritchardi exists. If I am correct in this, then the former 

 name has the right of precedence. I also believe that Peale^s 

 Pachycephala flavifrons is not distinct from his P. icteroides. 

 The Samoan name which he gives for the former, " Vassi- 

 vassi," does not exist in the dialect ; but it is evidently an in- 

 correct form of " Vasa-vasa,^' the name of P. icteroides. I 

 doubt whether Tartare longirostris is correctly attributed to 

 this group. The other five species I hope still to find. I 

 believe I lately saw Myiagra castaneiventris in the bush. 

 When I obtain further information, I hope to continue my 

 list, and to include shore- and sea-birds. 



Upolu, April 2nd, 1875. 



XL. — On the Contents of a second Box of Birds from Hako- 

 dadi, in Northern Japan. By R. Swinhoe. 



I SHOULD like to record in the forthcoming number of ' The 

 Ibis ' that I have just received a second box of birds from Mr. 

 Thomas Blakiston of Hakodadi, N. Japan, together with a 



