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* 26. Actitis macularia (Linne). 



Five specimens, both sexes, San Miguel and Saboga Islands, March 1, 2, 10, 

 and 17 and April 12. Two of these are spotted below, and three are in the 

 white-bellied plumage. 



*27. Ereunetes occidentalis Lawr. 



One 9 » San Miguel Island, March 8. 



*28. Limonites minutilla (Vikill.). 

 Three specimens, two males and a female, San Miguel Island, March 10. 



LARIDAE. 

 29. Sterna maxima Bodd. 

 Two females, San Miguel Island, March 15. 



COLUMBIDAB. 

 30- Colum.ba ruflna Temm. and Knip. 

 Ten adults of both sexes, San Miguel Island, February and March. 



PERISTERIDAB. 

 31. Zenaida auriculata (Des Mubs). 



Though the Pearl Islands were so thoroughly collected by Mr. Brown, he 

 never saw this dove, and the one specimen — the type of Z. hypoleuca Gray — 

 obtained by Captain Kellett and Lieutenant Wood, if it really came from the 

 islands, was probably a stray. It must be borne in mind that this is the only 

 record for the species from north of Ecuador. 



Unfortunately many of the birds collected by Kellett and Wood got mixed 

 up, and any unusual record is hardly to be relied upon. While Gerrit S. 

 Miller, Jr., was in the British Museum last winter, we asked him to examine 

 the type of Z. hypoleuca, and also to look at other skins obtained on the same 

 trip by Kellett and Wood. This Mr. Miller very kindly did in company with 

 Dr. Sharpe. He informed us that the type of this dove had been injured by a 

 taxidermist in making over, and so little of it remains that it is now impossible 

 to state if it differed in any way from Z. auriculata. He also states that the 

 Kellett and Wood skins were put in open tubes of paper and the data written 

 on the tubes, that many got interchanged, and that no reliance can now 

 be placed on the labels. As these officers collected down the west coast of 



