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



7. Drepanis flava, Bloxham. 



Drepanis fiava, Bloxh. Voy. Blonde, p. 249 ; Dole, Proc. Boston 

 Soc. N. H. xii. p. 298. 

 525. Male. "] 

 ^:S, Hi.o, 0„ h ,hee. 



533. Female. J 



" Eyes black ; stomachs had seeds and insects." — J. M. 

 The females are much less yellowish than the males, especially 

 below. 



8. Munia nisoria (Temm.) ; Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 73. 



543. Male. "Sparrow, introduced; native who shot it said he 

 had never seen one before." — J. M. 



An imperfect skin of this species (or of the nearly allied M. punc- 

 tularia), no doubt introduced. 



Prof. Baird a short time ago sent me a skin of a young or female 

 of another Eastern Finch from the Sandwich Islands (probably 

 Munia malabarica) for determination; also without doubt introduced. 



9. Otus brachyotus (Forster). 



Strix sandwichensis, Bloxam, Voy. Blonde, p. 250. 

 Asio galapagoensis, Cassin, Mamm. et Orn. U.S. Expl. Exp. 

 p. 207. 



Asio accipitrinus, Sharpe, Cat. B. ii. p. 234. 



544. "Male ; eyes yellow ; brought on board alive." — J. M. 



10. BtFTEO SOLITARIUS. 



Buteo solitarius, Peale,Zool. U.S. Expl. Exp. Birds, p. 62 (1848). 

 Pandion solitarius, Cassin, Mamm. & Orn. U.S. Expl. Exp. 

 p. 97, Atlas, pi. iv. 

 Polioaetus solitarius, Sharpe, Cat. B. i. p. 452. 



No. 540. Female. 



" Eyes brown ; cere and legs yellow ; bill black." — J. M. 



Mr. J. H. Gurney has kindly examined this interesting bird for 

 me (of which two specimens were obtained, but one of them was sub- 

 sequently lost), and supplied me with the following notes : — 



" The female Buzzard brought from Owhyhee by the • Challenger ' 

 Expedition (No. 540 in that collection) appears to be of the same 

 species, though in a different stage of plumage, as the previously 

 unique specimen from the same island, which is preserved in the 

 Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia, and 

 which was described by Peale, in the first edition of the ' Zoology of 

 the United-States Exploring Expedition,' published in 1848, under 

 the name of Buteo solitarius. 



"In the subsequent edition of this work, published in 1858, and 

 edited by the late Mr. Cassin, the generic name of Buteo, as applied 

 to this species, was dropped, and that of Pandion substituted, with 

 the following remark : — ' This bird is strictly a member of a subgenus 



