46 Dr. R. W. Shufeldt on the Terrestrial 



Funafuti, where it is not common, being found only in the 

 south-western corner of the island. 



Lastly, while at "Fiji, Mr. Gardiner had the good luck to 

 shoot a specimen of the rare Leptornis viridis, and has brought 

 it home well preserved in spirit. He observed three of these 

 birds at Taviani in a crater-like depression, 2200 feet above 

 the sea- level, surrounded by swamp overgrown with trees. 

 He distinctly denies the correctness of Liardet's report that 

 these birds "creep" on trees (c/. Layard, P. Z. S. 1875, 

 p. 432). 



P.S. — I take this opportunity of respectfully answering the 

 following remark of Count Salvador!, which I have recently 

 noticed in Cat. Birds, vol. xxvii. p. 495, anent Crypturi : — 

 "Dr. Gadow defines the Tinamiformes .... and places them 

 between the Falconiformes (!) and the Galliformes.'^ The 

 fact is, I do no such thing. Both groups not only belong to 

 different " E-egions,^^ but even to different " Brigades " of my 

 System. How would the justly-renowned Italian authority 

 relish the analogous statement that he " places the Crypturi 

 between the Chenomorphse (!) and the Ratitse,^^ or " near the 

 Goosanders"? — H. G. 



III. — On the Terrestrial Attitudes of Loons and Grebes. 

 By Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, C.M.Z.S.^ 



My attention has recently been invited by Mr. H. H. 

 Brimley, the Curator of the State Museum of Raleigh, 

 North Carolina, to an interesting question in regard to the 

 normal attitudes assumed by the Loons and Grebes {Pygo- 

 podes) when removed from their natural element, the water, 

 and placed upon dry land or elsewhere, and to the mode of 

 locomotion of these birds when on shore. 



In a letter to the present writer, Mr. Brimley says : — 

 ''The snowstorm of three weeks ago brought an unpre- 

 cedented influx of Loons into this locality, several of which 

 came into my hands. One I had alive for a short time, and 



* On this subject see Bull. B. 0. C. vi. p. xxiv. 



