THE IBIS. 



TENTH SERIES. 



No. III. JULY 1913. 



XIX. — On a small Collection of Birds from Henderson Island, 

 South Pacific. By W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. 



(Plate IX.) 



A SHORT account of the birds collected on Henderson Island 

 and presented to tlie British Museum by Messrs. D. R. Tait 

 and J. R. Jamieson, was published in the ' Bulletin of the 

 British Ornithologists' Club/ xxxi. pp. 58-61 (1913). 



Under the direction of Sir John Murray an expedition in 

 search of lime-deposits visited Henderson Island in 1912, 

 and though unsuccessful in their principal object, the 

 members met with several interesting birds, of which four 

 are peculiar to the island. 



When describing these birds I unfortunately overlooked 

 the fact that a short paper on the avifauna of that island had 

 already been published by Mr. A. J. North in the * Records 

 of the Australian Museum,' vii. pp. 29-31 (1908). Mr. A. 

 E. Stephen visited the island in 1907 and collected six 

 birds, which were preserved in spirits and forwarded to the 

 Australian Museum ; these included two, out of the three 

 species which I described as new. The cause of this over- 

 sight has already been explained in the * Bulletin' {t.c. 

 pp. 76-77), and I have to thank Dr. Charles W. Richmond, 

 of the United States National Museum, Washington, for 

 calling my attention to Mr. North's paper. 



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