170 Mr. Scott Wilson on some 



71. Tringa subarquata. 



Tringa subarquata, Sharpe & Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 Prance, i. p. 313 (1876) j Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. 

 p. 419. 



Aruwhimi River. 



A young bird in winter plumage. It has been found on 

 the Lower Congo and probably follows the course of that 

 river on its winter migration. 



72. Tringoides hypoleucus. 



Actitis hypoleuca, Sharpe & Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 France, i. p. 18 (1876). 



Tot anus hypoleucus, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. 

 p. 371. 



? ad., Yambuya. 



XVI. — On some of the Birds of the Sandwich Islands. 

 By Scott Wilson, F.Z.S. 



(Plate VI.) 



It may be advantageous to preface these notes by a few 

 geographical remarks as well as by a slight sketch of the 

 leading physical features of the islands of the Hawaiian 

 group, and especially of their forests, with which the 

 existence of their feathered inhabitants is so closely bound 

 up that the destruction of the one involves the extinction of 

 the other. It is, alas ! only too probable that both are 

 doomed in a very near future, so that these notes will 

 possess a melancholy interest for naturalists ; but it will be 

 quite needless for me to add another to the many descriptions 

 already published of these lovely islands *. 



Anyone turning to Mr. Wallace's ' Island Life' (chap, xv.) 

 will see that the Sandwich Islands form one of the most 

 remote groups in the world, rising from ocean-depths which 

 average about 3000 fathoms, whence Mr. Wallace infers that 

 during the whole of their existence they have been as com- 



* Of late they have been brought into prominent notice owing to the 

 heroic devotion of Father Damien, the martvr of Molokai. 



