ISfil.] OS THE BIRDS OF THE PHCENIX ISLANDS. 289 



DomfflA EGEON. 



Taxila egeon, Doubl. & Hew. Gen. Diurn. Lep. ii. p. 422, t. GO. 2. 



Dodona egeon. Butt. Ind. ii. p. 3M. 



Seems to be t'airlj' common in the Karen Hills at 4000-5000 feet, 

 and occurs also at Bernardmyo. The female is undescribed, aud 

 differs considerably from the male in having the yellow nnrkings 

 paler and much mo:e diffused. I have females also from Kulu and 

 Sikkim, which are somewhat darker than these. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXVII. 



Fig. 1. Ypthiiiia metJiora, How., ^ , p. 267. 



2. Ypthiina narasiiigha, Hew., j, p. 2i>3. 



3. Mi/caleda doherfyi, n. sp., cf . P- 201. 



4. Mz/calcsis doherfiji, n. sp., 2, p. 2(51. 



."). Amschnia prrirxoides,!^^^;^., c?, p. 285. 



(■>. Araschnia prorsnides,'B\A\\{:h., J, p. 28). 



7. Xeiirosiff/na doiihledaiji, var. ?, cT, P- -77. 



8. Dodona diodnfa, Hew., (^ , p. 288. 



2. Notes on the Birds of the Phoeiii.K Islands (Pacific Ocean). 

 By J. J. Lister, M.A., F.Z.S. 



[Received April 2, 1801.] 



The Phreiii.x Islands are a scsttertd group of low coral islands 

 iyina; far out in the South Pacific Ocean, extending from 1° north of 

 the Equator to nearly .r south of it. They are within 10° to the east 

 of the 180th parallel, which divides east longitude from west. 



There are eight islands south of the equator, viz. : — Sydney, 

 Phceni.x, Canton or Mary, Hull, Enderbury, Birnie, M'Kean, and 

 Gardner Islands, and two outliers of the group tJ the north of it — 

 Howland and Baker Islands. 



Situated in the dry, comparati\ely rainless belt which extends 

 siniie ilegrees on either side of the Equator, they are uninhabited 

 desolate places only frequented by sea-birds, which resort lo them 

 in innumerable multitudes for nesting '. 



The notices of birds of this group with wliich I am acquainted 

 are the following :— References to some of the islands as localities in 

 ('assin's edition of the ' United States Exploring Expedition, 

 Mammalogy and Ornithology,' and in the ' Fauna Centralpoly- 

 nesiens ' of Finsch and Ilartlaub ; a description by Canon Tiistram 

 of an appaiently new species of Duck (^Dafila modesta, Tristram), 

 and mention of other birds collected by -^Ir. Arundel in Sydney 



' Of late years the islands have been turned to account as a source of 

 t'liano. An interesting general descriptii n of these and other guauo islands 

 was read by Mi-. J. T. Arundel, F.R.G.S., before the Geographical Society of the 

 Pacific, in San Francisco. It was reprinted in the ' New Zealand Herald,' 

 •Tnlv b and 12, 1800. See also J. D. Hague, '• On the Guano Islands of tho 

 Pai-itic Ocean" (' Silhman's Journal,' .\xxiv. 18fi2, pp. 224-24.S). 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 1891, No. XIX. 19 



