22 MESSRS. HARTLAUB AND FINSCH [Jan. 3, 



Dr. Graffe collected several years ago for Mr. Godeffroy, has re- 

 mained nearly unexplored. Only two of its birds are known — 

 namely Carpophaga pacifica and the remarkable Didunculus strigi- 

 rostris. Although this latter rare bird is wanting amongst the col- 

 lections sent by Mr. Kubary, we have had the pleasure to find in 

 them a quite new grallatorial form, our Pareudiastes, remarkable 

 for the shortness of its wings, which remind one of those of Habro- 

 ptila. The other species collected by Mr. Kubary are all identical 

 with species from Upolu. 



The small island Rarotonga, only eight geographical miles in 

 circumference (?), situated in 21° 22' S. lat. and 159° 54' W. long., 

 belongs to the Cook, or Hervey group, and has, as far as we know, 

 never been explored by naturalists. Of the seven species of birds 

 collected by Mr. Garrett in this island, three prove to be new, namely 

 Monarches dimidiatus, Aplonis cinerascens, and Ptilinopus raroton- 

 getisis ; the others are widely distributed well-known Pacific birds. 



We regret that neither of these collectors, whom we have the 

 pleasure of first introducing to public notice, give any notes con- 

 cerning the habits, breeding, and other peculiarities of these birds. 

 Such additions would have made our paper still more interesting and 

 valuable. 



Mr. Andrew Garrett is an American, who has been collecting 

 already several years for the Smithsonian Institution and for the 

 Cambridge Museum, U. S. A. For two years he has been employed 

 for the Museum Godeffroy, and has explored the Paumotu archipelago 

 and the Viti group. A large collection from the latter locality has 

 been lost, unfortunately, by shipwreck. 



Mr. Kubary is a Polish gentleman from Warsaw, who was a stu- 

 dent of medicine, but was obliged to abandon his country, and was 

 sent in April 1869 by Mr. Godeffroy to the Pacific. 



Species from Savai. 



1. Strtx delicatula, Gould; Fiusch et Hartl. Ornith. Centr. 

 Polyn. p. 11. 



One specimen (female), agreeing entirely with specimens from 

 Upolu and the Vitis. 



Long. al. caud. culm. tars. dig. med. 



9" 6'" 4" 0'" 9i'" 2" 3"' 14'" (Savai.) 

 10 4 3 10! 2 2| 15 (Savai.) 



"Irides black; bill hornish grey. Native name, O le lulu." 

 (Kubary.) 



From Savai we have already received this species in 1868, in a 

 collection made by Dr. Graffe. 



2. Coriphilus FRiNGiLLACEus (Gmel.) ; Finsch et Hartl. /. c. 

 p. 25. 



Nine specimens, amongst them males and females, which are alike 

 in every respect, as already stated by Dr. Pickering. There is no 



