On a new Finch from Midway Island, N. Pacific. 339 



Steatornis caripensis, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 779 

 (Merida). 



Steatornis caripensis, Garrod, P. Z. S. 1873, pp. 463, 526, 

 630. 



Steatornis caripensis, Murie, Ibis, 1873, p. 81. 



Steatornis caripensis, Garrod, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 344. 



Steatornis caripensis, Brown, Canoe & Camp Life in British 

 Guiana, p. 386 (1876). 



Steatornis caripensis, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 139 

 (Caxamarca). 



Steatornis caripensis, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 532 

 ( Antioquia) . 



Steatornis caripensis, Taczanowski, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 208. 



Steatornis caripensis, Newton, Enc. Brit. xi. p. 227 (1880). 



Steatornis caripensis, Stolzmann, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 

 v. p. 198 (1880). 



Steatornis caripensis, Taczanowski, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 40. 



Steatornis caripensis peruvianus, Tacz. P. Z. S. 1885, 

 p. 106. 



Steatornis caripensis, Salv. Ibis, 1885, p. 439. 



XXX. — On a new Finch from Midway Island, North Pacific. 



By Scott B. Wilson, F.Z.S. 



(Plate IX.) 



The specimen from which the present figure is taken was 



brought by me alive from Honolulu in January 1889. 



About March of the preceding year, a small schooner 

 named the 'Mary Bohra' arrived in the Hawaiian Islands 

 from Japan, off the coasts of which country it had been 

 engaged in a fishing venture. Having met with many mis- 

 haps, the vessel put into port at Midway Island*, where there 



* The following extract from the ' North Pacific Directory,' page 867, 

 may be of interest : — 



" Brooks or Midway Islands. — This atoll is of much more interest than 

 its uninhabited and barren condition would warrant. It was discovered 

 by Captain N. C. Brooks, in the 'Gambia/ July 5th, 1859. He called 

 the two islands Middlebrook Islands, and took possession of them for the 



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