346 mr. p. l. sclater on the [Mar. 19, 



plumes are black throughout their length, and not only at their tips, 

 as described by Vigors and figured by Fraser. 



66. Sterna bergii. 



Sterna bergii, Licht. Verz. d. Doubl. Mus. Berl. p. 80. 

 [S. Leyte, d 1 , October.] 



67. Dendrocygna vagans (203). 

 [Amparo, S 2 > July ; S- Leyte, tf , September.] 



2. Reports on the Collections of Birds made dnring the 

 Voyage of H.M.S. ' Challenger/— No. VIII. On the 

 Birds of the Sandwich Islands. By P. L. Sclater, 

 M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S. 



[Eeceived February 26, 1878.] 



The 'Challenger' arrived in Hilo Bay, Owhyhee, on the 14th of 

 of August, 1875, and left on the 19th of the same month. 



The skins of birds collected were 24 in number, belonging to 13 

 species. They were all obtained " within eight miles of the town." 



The collection, although small, and containing nothing absolutely 

 new except a single species of Anas, is of interest, as it enables us 

 to record the actual island of the Sandwich group upon which the 

 species contained in it were found, and as including an example 

 of the little-known Buteo solitarius of Peale. 



The best account of the avifauna of the Sandwich-Island group, 

 which is still very imperfectly known to us, is that given by Dole in 

 1869 1 . On this I have commented at some length in ' The Ibis ' for 

 1871 2 , and given my views on the subject pretty fully. Lately M. 

 Oustalet has described a most remarkable new form 3 from the same 

 group ; but I am not aware of any other more recent contributions 

 to this subject 4 . 



1. CHASIEMPIS SANDVICENSIS. 



Sandwich Flycatcher, Lath. Syn. ii. p. 343, unde 

 Muscicapa sandvicensis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 945. 

 Chasiempis sandvicensis, Cab. Wiegm. Arch. 1847, i. p. 208. 

 Cnipolegus, sp. 1238, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 203 ; vide P. Z. S. 1873, 

 p. 555. 



No. 528. Hilo, Owhyhee. $ . 1 

 ozy. ,, „ „ j 



" Flycatcher : eyes black ; stomachs contained insects." — J. M. 



1 " Synopsis of the Birds hitherto described from the Hawaiian Islands. By 

 S. B. Dole," Proc. Boston Soc. N. H. xii. p. 294. 



2 " Bemarks on the Avifauna of the Sandwich Islands. By P. L. Sclater," 

 Ibis, 1871, p. 356. 



3 Loxioides bailloni: vide Bull. Soc. Phil, de Paris, 7 me ser. t. i. p. 99. 



4 Dr. Pucheran's somewhat peculiar views on the avifauna of the Sandwich 

 Islands will be found explained in the Proces-Verbaux Soc. Phil, de Paris, 

 1858, p. 85. 



