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This species lias been overlooked in Gray's Hand-List, as also in tlie British Museum Catalogue. 

 It appears to resemble Glycypliila undulata, Sparrm. but the measurements are considerably smaller. 



163.* Ptilotis carunculata. 

 Wattled Creeper, Lat/,. Gen. Syn. J, 782; Spl. I, 12'.J: G. F.nxt. Gutting. Magaz. 1780, 349?; Cook's 

 Last Voy. I, 334; d. Forst. Cook's dritte Enid. Reise I, 238. — Certhia carunculata (Jm. S. N. 1788 I, 

 472: /.«M. Ind. Orn. 179(), 295; iJcr/isY. Lath. Uebers. I, 598; IV, 180; For.st. Doscr. An. 1844, 165. — Le 

 Foulehaio. J'ieill. Ois. Dor. II, 131 t. 69. — Creadion musicus id. N. Diet. XXXI X, 480. — Creadion tabuensis 

 S/)jj/t. — Foulehaio musicus lic/ib. Meropinae 1851, 110, Taf. 497 f. 3550. — Meliphaga carunculata (''mi/. 

 Gen. B. I, 122; I'calc U. S. Exp. 1848, 144, pi. 42 f. 2 pt. ; Ihr/l. Wiegni. Arch. 1852, 108 jit. ; Gray, B. 

 Trop. li. 12; id. II. L. I, 157. — Myzantha carunculata Ilar/l. Wiegni. Arch. 1852, 130 pt. ; id. J. f. 0. 

 1854, 168 pt. — Ptilotis carunculata Cns.i. IJ. S. Exp. 1858, 173 pt.; F. et II. Orn. Centralpol. 1867, 58 

 Taf. V, 2 (head) et I, 2 (egg); Hd. P. Z. S. 1869, 545; iid. J. f. 0. 1870, 122, 125; Griiffe, t. c. 402, 404; 

 Finsch. ib. 1872, 32, 36; /.«//. P. Z. S. 1875, 27, 32: Whitmec, Ibis 1875, 438; Lay. ib. 1876, 391; id. P. Z. 

 S. 1876, 491, 501; Finsch, ib. 1877, 724. 773; Xehrkom, J. f. 0. 1879, 398; Fimch, Voy. Chall., B. 1881, 

 36, 45 pi. XII, 1; Gadow, Cat. B. 1884 IX, 225 pt.; Trisir. Cat. Coll. B. 1889, 207. — „Fulehaio", Tonga Is. 

 i^Forst. etc. — spelt in various manners). — „E-yow" (Peak], „Manu-yao" {Griiffe).^ „Jao" Whitmcvj Samoa Is. 

 ■"• Touijfi Is.: Tonga-tabu and Eua i Forst. etc.), Vavao Jiriiffc etc.). — SfiHoa Y.v. il'c(de): Upolu 

 (Griiffe etc), Tutuila (Mus. Brit.). -^ Matiika (Macffil/., ChuU. Exp.), Lomalonia (Imij.) in the Fiji Is. 



164.* Ptilotis procerior. 

 Meliphaga carunculata Vealc, U. S. Exp. 1848, 144 pt. ; llaril. "Wiegm. Arch. 1852, 103 pt. — 

 Myzantha carunculata llartl. ib. 130 pt. ; id. J. f. 0. 1854, 168 pt. — Ptilotis carunculata Hartl. Ibis 1864, 

 232":'; Cat. ilus. Godcf. I; Gadow, Cat. B. 1884 IX, 225 pt. — Ptilotis procerior F.d II. Orn. Centralpol. 

 1867, 62 Taf. V, 3 (Oval.); Gray, H. L. 1, 157; F.ctll. J. f. 0. 1870, 122, 126; Lay. P. Z. S. 1875, 27 

 (Oval.,Viti L.), 431 (Wakaia) ; »/. Ibis 1876, 392 (Kandavu); liamsay, Pr. L. Soc. X. S. AV. 1, 70 (Kand.); 

 Kleimchm. J. Mus. Godef. 1876 XII, 13; Finsch, P. Z. S. 1877, 732 pt. (Oval., Viti L. nee Vanua L.); id. 

 Voy. Chali., B. 1881, 46 pi. XII, 2; AV/»/o/-«, J. f. 0. 1879, 398; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. 1889, 2U8. — 

 „Barosissi", Ovalau (Griiffe):^ ^Giekau" or „Kassewan" Fiji Is. (Kleinschm.). 



■^ OvnUiii, Vifi Lei'u (Griiffe, Lay.).^ Kandavu, Wnkaia Lay. .^ (?) Vatu Lele (Finsch) in 

 the Fiji Is. 



165.* Ptilotis procerior flavo-aurita. 



Ptilotis flavo-aurita Lay. Ibis 1876, 148; Tristr. Cat. Coll. li 1889, 208. — Ptilotis procerior 

 liamsay, Pr. L. Soc. X. S. \V. I, 70. — Ptilotis carunculata Gadow, Cat. B. IX, 225 pt. 

 I'\)tlina Jff' (L<'</., liamsay). 



166- Ptilotis procerior taviunensis. 

 Ptilotis similis Lay. (nee Jacq. el Pacher.) Ibis 1876, 148, 389 pt. (Taviunij. — Ptilotis carunculata 

 GudoH-, Cat. B. 1884 IX, 225 pt. 



Taviiint, Fiji Is. (Lay., Mus.. Brit.). 



167.* Ptilotis procerior buaensis. 



Ptilotis similis Lay. (nee J. et P.) Ibis 1876, 392 ( Vanua LevuJ. — Ptilotis carunculata Gadow, 

 Cat. B. 1884 IX, 225 pt. — Ptilotis buaensis Lay. M. S. 



Vaittia Levu and Mathuata, Fiji Is. Lay. . 



The line scries of 43 specimens in the British Museum which have been united by Dr. Gadow 

 (1. c.) under the name P. carunculata will be fuund to belong more properly to two species, P. carunculata 

 Gm. andP. procerior F. etil., and several distinct insular subspecies of the latter. P. carunculata Gm. is 

 represented in 18 .specimens, of which 8 came from Samoa (7 Upolu, 1 Tutuila), 6 from Tonga (5 Tonga- 

 tabu, 1 Vavao) and 4 from Matuka in the Fiji Islands, — this small island and Lomaloma being the only 

 ones in that group from which P. carunculata has been recorded. These specimens are in every respect 

 identical, save that in those from Samoa the olivaceous yellow of the underside is a shade lighter and fainter, 



