I878 "J FR °U THE ELLICE ISLANDS. 273 



Anous tereticoltis, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 661 (1846) 



K^TZ^tTAm*- Xlii ' P - m (m6)i Gould ' 



Sterna cmerea, Schleg. Mus. R-B. Stern*, p. 38 (1863) 

 Anous albmtta, Gray, Handl. B. iii. p. 123, no 1 1089 fWn 

 Anous caruteus, Saunders, P. Z. S. 1&«, p.' 671 [T^lll^. 



<£$ l^r™*T ntM et orientali usque ad insulas Pa - 



Dr. Finsch, in his paper read before the Society on the 20th of 

 November last, records this species from Eua in the^riendW oup 

 He recognizes the distinctness of the two species- b [there is . o 

 need to restore the name oi Anous albivitta, as h it le cVreZ 



Hshef lill K° m 1845 ' aUd Ne ' b ° UX ' S A ' Cinereu * was ™* Pub 



3. Anous stolidus (L.) j Saunders, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 669. 

 Two specimens. 



p.670 ANOUS LEUCOCAPILLUS ' Goul d; Saunders, P. Z. S. 1876, 

 A single example of a Noddy apparently referable to this species. 



p.664 STERNA AN " ESTHETA < Sc °P-); Saunders, P. Z. S. 1876, 

 One specimen. 



6. Gygis Candida (Gm.) ; Saunders, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 667. 

 One specimen. 



\i ld T thC a l ,ove -" am l ed S P ecies there ™ some eggs, two of a 

 Noddy Tern, sent with the skins of Anous stolidus and 1 1„ 

 pillus and probably belonging to the former, and three L s Zl 

 rently ot a Duck. In one box were also two wings ofa sSl 



Note on the preceding Communication. By the liev. S J 

 Whitmee, F.R.G.S., C.M.Z.S. 



During 1876 Mr. Fritz Jausen, a Danish Botanical student who 

 had been residing with me in Samoa for a year, co£ct , " th flora 



co'l £jfo* 2 theT ° n Y"* 8 th u r ° Ugh -e-end groups o?id.ud°S 

 collect tor me the flora and as much as possible of the fauna existing- 



awtV ad , dltl ° n t0 . the birds ^"ded in the foregoin" H st hf 

 aataa„TA a9a ™ ^ , ElliCe Isk " ds ; and the Frigal-bTrd iFre. 

 £fl also . occurs there. In fact, the latter bfrd is domestt 

 cated by the natives ; and when I was in those islands in l s™ T 



Tr/ T *r the ,i,la8es si,,ing °«°°» S- ssiT: 



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