Mammalia — Ares, 



37 



Basilar length (Heuseliou) ... 

 Greatest breadth of skull . . . 

 Length of nasals 



M. macleari, 

 32 





1 



I. 



is 





M. nutiritatis 

 (from skel.}. 



47-4 



26-1 



19-6 



5-8 



6-9 



6-1 



30-1 

 10-2 



40-5 42 

 22-0 23-5 

 18 18-.T 



42-5 ' 42-5 

 23-5 23-5 

 19-5 ni 



Greatest breadth of nasals ... 

 Leas t breadth in iuterorbital \ 



constriction j 



Least length of outer wall ) 



of infraorb. foramen . j 



Length of palate 



Breadth outside m. 1 



o-O 

 G-o 



5-0 



24-0 

 9-0 



5-0 



8-0 



5-0 



24-0 

 b'o 



5-7 

 7-0 



4-5 1 



22-0 



9 

 16 



7 



6-8 



5-0 



4-0 

 23 



15-5 

 C-5 

 6-5 



Back of incisor to m. 1 . . 

 Length of upper molar series. 

 Length of loAver molar series. 



17-0 

 8-0 

 8-2 



14-5 

 8-0 

 8-0 



14 

 8-0 

 8-0 



AYES. 



By R. BowDLEK Shaepe, LL.D., F.L.S., P.Z.S. 



(PLATES III-VI.) 

 When the "Flying Fish" under Captain Maclear first visited 

 Christmas Lsland in January, 1887, two new sjDecies of birds were 

 discovered by the expedition, viz., Carpophaga ivhartoni and 

 Turd as eri/thropleurKH. The " Egeria " shortly afterwards paid 

 a visit to the island, and Mr. J. J. lister, who was naturalist 

 to the expedition, made a good collection of birds and discovered 

 several new species. His notes on his collection were also of great 

 interest. 



Mr. Andrews obtained series of all the species found on Christmas 

 Island b}' Mr. Lister, and he was able to add several migratory 

 species which the other expeditions had not met with, while the 

 number of birds and eggs which he has obtained evince great 

 energy on his part. In the following pages his field notes are 

 accompanied by his initials ' C. W. A.' 



Order COLUMBIFORMES. 

 1. Carpophaga whartoni. 



Carpophaga tchnrtoui, Sharpe, P.Z.S., 18S7, p. olo, pi. xliii ; Lister, P.Z.S., 

 1888, p. 520; Salvad., Cat. B. Brit, Mus., xxi, p. 184 (1893) ; 

 Sharpe, Handl. B., i, p. 64 (1899). 



'^0, 6, S ad- Flving Fish Cove, August 8, 1897. 

 No. 57, 9 ad. Flvmg Fish Cove, October 21, 1897. 



