1875.) MR. E. L, LAYARD ON FIJIAN BIRDS. 441 
secured, driven into Levuka by a hurricane which swept over the 
neighbouring sea. 
Eggs have been brought me, said to be of this species, from the 
island of Wailangilala, to the N.E. of the group. They vary in size, 
shape, and coloration; a good average specimen is, axis 2”, diam. 
1”5"". Dull white, more or less speckled, but chiefly in the form of 
a ring at the obtuse end, with reddish brown and light purple spots. 
ANOUS CINEREUS (Neb.); F. & H. op. cit. p. 239. 
I fancy I have seen this species up to windward ; and eggs have 
been brought from an island to the N.W., called Nuku Levu, of a 
bird the men on it call the “ Snowy Petrel,” said to be this species. 
Colour a pale cream, profusely dotted with dark red-brown and 
lighter purple spots; axis 1" 5!, diam. 1", rather pointed at the 
small end. 
Anous LEUCOCAPILLUS, Gould; F. & H. op. cit. p. 237. 
Found in flocks on the open seas between the islands. During 
gales it approaches the land; and several have been brought to me 
picked up exhausted on the beach in Ovalau. One was seen by me, 
very tired and hardly able to fly, the day after the hurricane of 
January 7th, 1875; and one was brought in by Mr. Winchcomb on 
the 9th, picked up on shore, very thin and exhausted. Bill black ; 
legs and webs dirty orange and black; iris brown; tongue yellow. 
Eggs, from Wailangilala, are like those of S. panaya, only smaller 
(axis 1° 9'", diam. 1” 3'”), and spots fewer and larger. 
THALASSIDROMA MACGILLIVRAYI, G. R. Gray; F. & H. op. cit. 
p- 242. 
Purrinus nueax (Solander); F. & H. op. cit. p. 242. 
PROCELLARIA CHRULEA, Gmel.; F. & H. op. cit. p. 246. 
Neither of these three species has been seen by me during my 
residence here. 
PHAETON £THEREUS, Linn.; F. & H. op. cit. p. 250. 
I have seen tails of P. rubricauda in the hair of the natives on the 
Windward Islands (Loma Loma) ; but they may have been brought 
from Tonga. I fancied, however, I saw a Phaeton at a distance, far 
out to sea, when we were on the north coast of Vanua Levu. 
Dysporus suta (Linn.); F. & H. op. cié. p. 260. 
Seen about Mango and the Windward Islands. A young bird 
driven on shore at Levuka during the hurricane that swept over the 
Jasawas. 
TACHYPETES AQuiLa (Linn.); F. & H. op. cit. p. 265. 
Seen about the Windward Islands in February and October. 
During gales it is invariably seen about Levuka; and during the 
hurricane which prevailed in the New Hebrides, and of which we 
felt the tail here in November last, the Frigate-birds sought the 
