XIX, 
SUMMARY OF THE FAUNA OF FUNAFUTI. 
Tue fauna of the Atoll of Funafuti, as presented by different 
writers in the preceding pages, will now be briefly enumerated 
in systematic order. With that information will also be in- 
corporated various records, either overlooked in the preparation 
of the articles referred to, or produced since their publication, 
and embracing the Archipelago as a whole. 
Prior to the advent of the Expedition, not more than eight 
species of animals were recorded in literature from Funafuti ; the 
following lists embrace about eight hundred and fifty entries. 
Though the student of Zoogeography will herein find a more 
complete account of the life of a Central Pacific Atoll than has 
previously appeared, he is cautioned not to use it as an exhaustive 
catalogue. The results of brief sojourn by a few poorly equipped 
visitors, may indeed present a picture in which the salient features 
loom obscurely, as in a partly-developed photograph, but nothing 
more. 
Class MAMMALIA. 
Mus exulans, Peale. Delphinus, sp. 
Class AVEs. 
The account of the Avifauna of the atoll by Mr, A. J. North 
(pp. 79—88) can be supplemented by a few additions. Dr. EE 
Gadow has briefly enumerated the birds shot on Funafuti by Mr. 
J. S. Gardiner.* To these he adds Carpophaga pistrinaria, a 
species identified on the wing by his informant. As Mr. Gardiner 
was not previously acquainted with this species, such an identifi- 
cation cannot be considered of value, and I accordingly exclude 
it. In 1897 Mr. W. G. Woolnough, B.Sc., succeeded in shooting 
an example of the much debated Ellice Island Pigeon, which was 
subsequently determined by Mr. A. J. North as Globicera pacifica. t 
The avifauna of the Archipelago will doubtless be found on 
examination to contain most, if not all, of the twenty-six birds 
observed in the neighbouring Phenix Group.} At present the 
revised list drawn up by Mr. A. J. North, consists of the following 
fifteen species :— 
* Gadow— Ibis (7), iv., Jan. 1898, p. 45. 
+ North—Rec. Aust. Mus., iii., June, 1898, p. 86. 
t Lister—Proc. Zool. Soc., 1891, p. 300. 
