200 Walter Rothschild: 



1 stuffed and 1 skeleton in Paris, 1 skeleton in Florence, and 



1 stuffed in Liverpool. On Stephens Island there existed up 

 to a few years ago, unknown to man, a small rock Wren, 

 Traversia lyalli, but it fell a victim simultaneously with its 

 discovery, for the only known 11 specimens were saved from 

 being- devoured by the lighthouse cat, which has completely 

 exterminated the species. These. 11 specimens are distri- 

 buted as follows : 8 at Tring, 1 in the British Museum, and 



2 in New Zealand. 



The next places which have to be discussed are the Pacific 

 and Polynesian Islands. Starting with the Japanese empire 

 we find the very extraordinary brown and crimson Grosbeak, 

 from Bonin-Shima, Chaunoproctus ferreirostris, which has 

 never been found since Kittlitz's time, and of which only the 

 two types in the collection of the British Museum and those 

 collected by Kittlitz are known, while GeocicJda terrestris was 

 only found by the latter. Coming to the Hawaiian Islands 

 the list of vanished forms is rather large ; on Oahu Psitti- 

 rostra psittacea deppei, Hemignathus ellisianus, Hetero- 

 rhynchus lueidus, Mol\,o apicalis, Phaeornis oahuensis and 

 Pennuta sandviciensis have completely ceased to exist ; on 

 Hawaii also we find Chaetoptila angustipluma, Ciridops anna 

 and Pennuta milt si are absolutely extinct. Of these there 

 only exist of Psittirostra p. deppei, the 2 types at Tring, a fine 

 series at Berlin, most of which have only recently been 

 transferred there from Kiel ; of Hemignathus ellisianus there 

 are 1 in Berlin, 1 in Paris, and 1 in Philadelphia, of Hetero- 

 rhynchus lueidus there exist 1 in Berlin, 1 in London, 1 in 

 Liverpool, 2 at Cambridge, 2 in Philadelphia, and 2 in Paris. 

 Of Moho apicalis there are 2 in Vienna, 2 in London, and 1 

 at Tring. Of Phaeornis oahuensis there is no specimen extant. 

 Of Pennuta sandviciensis we only possess the unique specimen 

 in Leyden, and Forster and Ellis' drawings. Of Chaetoptila 

 there exist only the type in Washington, 1 specimen at 

 Cambridge, 1 in Honolulu, and 1 at Tring. Of Ciridops 

 anna only 3 specimens are known, 2 at Tring, and 1 in 

 Honolulu. Lastly of Pennula millsi, 6 specimens all told are 

 on record, 2 at Tring, 1 at Cambridge, 2 in Honolulu, and 

 1 is said to be in Mexico. 



In Polynesia we find that Hypotaenidia pacificus has 



