J 878.] MR. FORBES ON BIRDS FROM THE SAMOA ISLANDS. 35 1 



small coverts, there is a narrow ashy-white margin ^ 



Ihe description is taken from specimen 541 the other fU9\ ; 

 apparently a young bird and is rather smaller in ks dimensi^f " 



12. Fulicaalai, Peale. 



Fulicaalai, Peale, Zool. U.S. Expl. Exp Birds n 2?j . r ■ 

 Mamm. & Orn. U.S. Expl. p. 30oAtias,V «*/' ' ^^ 



13. Totanus INCANUS (6m.). 



532. Female. Eyes hazel ; bill brown ; legs yellow. 



3 ' and a th p m Tl °f f I" ° £ B r h £r ° m thG Sam ° an Isla ^s 

 and the Island of Rotumah, Central Pacific. By W A 



Forbes, F.Z.S. y ' 



[Eeceived March 1, 1878 ] 



CentrPdyrp AL ; 6 . ICTEROIDES ' ^ Fi » Sch & Hartl. Fann. 



Three examples of this species, in different stages of plumage 

 hough none are qmte adult, traces of the rufous plumage oHmnfa 



Upo7u" m 3 n tL t0 V^ 6 ^" ° r ,CSS CXtent - AU are m -ked <Zm 

 (P Z S lK7fi "Ion 7T glVCn iS " Vas *™*-" Mr. Layard 

 (P.Z. S. 18/6, p. 494) doubts the occurrence of this snecies in 

 Samoa, and refers the bird from those islands to pJavifLTpeZe) 



ttp%£s£ has shown (J - f - °- 1872 > '*# "tSSSi 



The island of Rotumah is, as far as I am aware, entirely unknown 

 orniholog^ally; and the three skins in this co lection CI 

 locality are I believe, the first that have ever been received from the 

 island. It is a small island, 4 or 5 miles in extent from uoZ to 



S ty -fn77 a 91 dlSC IH ered \ C ^ tain f dwards in his -aroh for t^ . 

 Bounty inl791 It lies nearly midway between theFijisand theEllice 

 group, in about long. 1 77° E., lat. 1 2f S. Some account of iFwTu 



