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by the latest authority on the Petrels Dr. F. 

 Du Cane Godman to be not a new species but 

 the same as the Diving Petrel of the southern 

 Indian Ocean, Pelecanoides exsul. It had not 

 before been recorded from Tristan da Cunha, and 

 its discovery on this island makes a great and 

 somewhat remarkable extension to its range. 



SECOND. " Wilson's " Petrel from South 

 Trinidad is now acknowledged by the same 

 authority* to be identical with Arminjon's Petrel 

 (CEstrelata arminjoniana) ; this I pointed out as 

 being probable in the First Edition (p. 62). 



With regard to the mammals, reptiles, etc., I 

 have no corrections to make, but should point out 

 that on pages 87 and 88 of the First Edition I 

 inadvertently described a new form of Fruit-Bat. 

 I there gave a short description of the Mayotte 

 Fruit-Bat, which now proves to be separable from 

 those of the other Comoro Islands. The name 

 Pteropus comorensis, which I used in referring to 

 this Fruit-Bat, was a nomen nudum (a name 

 unaccompanied by a diagnosis), and, therefore, 

 this name will in future have to stand as that of 

 the Mayotte Fruit-Bat. 



Except where otherwise stated, all the plates 

 in this book are from photographs taken by 

 myself. That of the human skulls from Easter 

 Island is from two incomplete and very old and 

 brittle specimens in my possession. 



* c/. F. Du Cane Godman, " A Monograph of the Petrels," p. 230. 



