266 
Messrs. E. L. and E. L. C. Layard on 
rouzier/ reprinted in the 'Moniteur de la N. Caledonie/ 
May 1877. He gives a list of the birds, reptiles, shells, 
insects, and plants observed by him. Of the first, he notices 
Sula bassana, Tachypetes aquilus, Phaeton Candidas, P, phoe- 
nicurus, Rallus pectoralis dont les paillettes sont plutot 
fauves que blanches, et dont la chair est d^nn gout detes¬ 
table ^M!), “un Sterne noir-brun a calotte blanche,^^ and 
the new (?) Frigate-bird, which he designates Tachypetes 
chambeyroni, and thus describes :— 
'^Taille de la Fregate commune, d^un noir-brun, plumes 
au-dessus du dos longues, irisees, a reflets metalliques; un 
volumineux jabot place sous la gorge, pouvant se gonfler, d^un 
rouge de sang, garni k la base de quelques plumes rares, 
courtes, distantes, et de tuberculosites analogues a celle de la 
tete du Dindon.^^ 
[I have compared specimens from nearly every group, and 
feel satisfied that they must all be referred to T. minor, and 
that no third species of Tachypetes exists.—H. B. T.] 
101. Anas superciliosa, Gm. 
This is the only Duck we have yet seen ; but Capt. Hutton, 
in his ^ Catalogue of the Birds of New Zealand,^ p. 36, adds 
to our avifauna 
QuERQUEDULA GIBBERIFRONS, Mullcr. 
This makes a total of twenty-three additions to M. Marie^s 
list; and if we eliminate Nos. 35 and 69, to which no titles 
are given, we shall have a total of 127 species in our supposed 
avifauna—a number considerably in excess of that of Fiji as 
at present known to us. 
106. PODICEPS GULARIS, Gould. 
M. Jouan describes a Dabchick (No. 53 of his ^ Notes 
which answers well to the Australian bird. One was shot 
while E. L. L. was at Honailou, but, unfortunately, was not 
shown to him till it appeared on the dinner-table ! Its size 
answered to P. gularis, which we have from Australia; but 
not a feather could be found for identification. 
An analysis of the genera of birds found in New Caledonia, 
Fiji, and Australia, gives us the following results:— 
