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often kept us a pet l>\ tin* niili\rs. a ciislum wliicli 1i;ls ai<l<'<l its 

 (listrilmtioii. ihw which I sfcurtMl at Uaii^iroa Itrcamc \«*ry laiiu*. 

 and Hvc'd on Koanl the Ai.hathoss for several weeks, when it was 

 (Irowntnl h\ falhn^' into a pail of water. Its ^Teatest delight was to 

 walk hark and ft)rth on a li^ht rope stretclie<l across my stateroom. 

 The water l)irds olitained were Ilitrnirliti.t inranu.s, McgnlojArriiH 

 vu'lanogruys, Proril.flcrna ccriilra, and Strrnn liinatd. 



Makatea, (Metia, Aurora, Recreation), where the Albatross 

 made a brief stop on 2(t S«'pteml>er, was revisited for a few hours on 

 () October. It is one of the few ele\ated islands in the Paumotus, 

 having a height of oxer LMM) feet, with jjerpendicuiar cliffs alon^ the 

 north shore. It has a lenj:th of five miles and is flensely wooded, 

 with many larjre trees. The higher parts are difficult to penetrate 

 with the thickly tanj^led vegetation and massed pinnacles of sharply 

 weathered limestone. Our stay was too brief to permit of collecting; 

 more than a few yards tlistant from the shore. The land birds found 

 here were fruit pigeon (Piilopuji coralrn,tis), large pigeon (Glohicrra 

 aurorae), and warbler (Conoi)odrra.t atypha rrcma), the last being new. 

 All are common. The water birds were Plunnlis d-nninlrui fulru.'i, 

 Pharopu.s tahiticti.'<i,s, and Anou.s siolirlu.i piUatu.'i. This was our first 

 meeting with the large pigeon Globicera. It is rather common and 

 was ol)served later at Tahiti. This Ijird is called Ru-pee by the natives. 

 The dense forests of Makatea doubtless harbor species of land birds 

 which could only maintain themsehes with difficulty in the scattered 

 cocoanut groves of the atolls. 



XiAU, also called Creig and Faau, is an atoll about four miles in 

 diameter and is well wooded. It is somewhat higher than the neigii- 

 boring atolls, ha\ing an elevation of twenty-six feet. Our stop on 

 7 October of two hours afforded little time for collecting. The only 

 bird obtained was the fruit pigeon iPiUopus coralcnsia) which is 

 abundant. 



Apataki, sometimes called Hagemeister, is a partly wooded atoll 

 eighteen miles in diameter. Anchoring on the evening of 7 October 

 and sailing the following morning, only one bird was secured, a warbler 

 {Conopoderas atypha agassizi), which, however, proved to be unde- 

 scribed. 



TiKEi, or Romanzoff, is a small, well-wooded island about three 

 miles in diameter and with no central lagoon. The Alb.a.tross 

 anchored at Tikei for a few hours on 8 October. The only birds 

 collected were Conoix)dcras atypha atypha and Plurialis dominicu.s 

 fuhus. I found here the egg of a White-crowned black noddy balanced 



