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urements of this specimen are as follows: — wing 59.2; tail 38.2; 

 exposed culmen 11.0; tarsus 20.0. 



Thoiij;h the plate gi\en by Finsch is marked ponapensis, in the 

 original description of this bird the name is given as Zostcrops pona- 

 pcnens-is. 



PLOCEIDAE. 



LONCHURA CASTANEOTHORAX (GoULD). 



Amadina castaneolhorax Gould, Sj^nop. birds Australia, 1837, pt. 2, pi. 21. 

 (Cairns, Queensland). 



A bird marked questionably as a female was taken at Tahiti in the 

 Society Islands, 3 October. It has the under tail coverts white 

 with bro^vTiish bases. An adult male was secured at Bora Bora in 

 the same group, 17 November. This introduced species does not 

 seem to have been recorded prex^iously. 



93. Aegintha temporalis (Latham). 



Fringilla temporalis Latham, Ind. ornith. SuppL, 1801, p. xlviii. (New South 

 Wales). 



A male was secured at Tahiti, in the Society Islands, 13 Novem- 

 ber, and two females were collected the following day. This is an 

 introduced form that does not seem to have been recorded here pre- 

 viously. 



