[III.] 



AVES. 



BY ALFRED J. NORTH, C.M.Z.S., 



Ornithologist to the Australian Museum. 



THE Ornithological Collection made by Mr. Hedley consists of six 

 specimens, referable to four well known Australasian species, and 

 one egg. Mr. Hedley has supplied an interesting note on the 

 " Lakea " (Micranous leucocapillus). Although found on most 

 islets near the line, Tetanus incanus and Sterna melanauchen 

 have not, I believe, been previously recorded from the Ellice 

 Islands. 



1. TOT ANUS INCANUS. 



Grey-rumped Sandpiper. 



Scolopax incana, Grnel. Syst. Nat., Vol. i. p. 651 (1788). 

 Totanus incanus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet., torn. vi. p. 400 (1816). 

 Totanus griseopygius, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1848, p. 39; id. 



Bds. Austr. Vol. vi. pi. 38 (1848). 

 Actitis incana, Finch, Ibis, 1880, pp. 432, 434 (Gilbert Islands). 



One adult female in winter plumage. Wing 6'9 in. This 

 specimen was obtained on the margin of a mangrove-lined swamp 

 on Funafuti. T. incanus in winter dress is not uncommon on 

 the shores of Botany Bay, New South Wales, during the months 

 of October and November. 



2. DEMIEGRETTA SACRA. 

 Reef Heron. 



Ardea sacra, Gmel. Syst. Nat., Vol. ii. p. 640 (1788); Finsch, 



Ibis, 1880, pp. 432, 433 (Gilbert Islands). 

 Herodias jugularis, G. R. Gray, List Spec. Bds. Brit. Mus., p. 80 



(1844) ; Gould, Bds. Austr. Vol. vi. pi. 60 (1848). 

 Herodias greyi, G. R. Gray, List Spec. Bds. Brit. Mus., p. 80 



(1844) ; Gould, Bds. Austr. Vol. vi. pi. 61 (1848). 



