PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION XXHI 



Valparaiso, 14th to 24th February ; 

 Easter Island, 10th to 13th March ; 

 Pitcairn Island, 22nd to 23rd March ; 

 Tahiti, Society Islands, 31st March to 17th 



April ; 

 Tutuila Island, Samoan Group, 22nd to 24th 



April ; 

 Apia, Upolu Island, Samoa, 25th to 29th 



April ; 



Suva, Fiji Islands, 3rd to 6th May ; 

 Thursday Island, Torres Straits, 18th to 23rd 



May; 



Singapore, 3rd to 9th June ; 

 Colombo, 17th to 20th June ; 

 Aden, 2nd to 3rd July ; 

 Suez, 10th July ; 

 Port Said, llth to 13th July ; 

 Gibraltar, 22nd to 26th July ; 

 Cowes, 1st August. 



The collections made during this voyage com- 

 prised some two hundred and twenty bird-skins, 

 thirty mammals, a few hundred fishes and reptiles, 

 and several hundred butterflies, moths, and other 

 insects. 



No new species of bird or mammal was obtained, 

 but a series of skins of the Pitcairn Warbler 

 (Tatar e vaughani) was of considerable interest. 

 The types of this species are spirit specimens in 

 the British Museum : no skins of the bird had 

 ever been collected before; moreover, the fact 

 that the first plumage of the young differs very 

 considerably from that of the adult of this warbler 

 was unknown until we obtained specimens. 



