-66- Henuake: Peale (common; had eggs and young on Aug. 21, 1839). Pinaki: Townsend (Oct. 31, 1899). Raraka: Peale (less common than on Henuake). Apparently closely related to A E. cancellatus from Christmas Island, of which no specimens are extant. Christmas Island is about 2000 miles from the present localities, and there is a fair chance of the two forms being different, as indicated by a comparison of speci- mens with Latham's original description. Peale says it alights "on bushes or on the ground". He got five specimens, one of which was sent to the Chicago Academy of Sci- ences and was destroyed in the fire of 1871; another was sent to the Boston Society and was lately transferred to the Museum of Comparative Zoology. The other three specimens, and the one collected by Townsend, are in the National Museum. No specimens appear ever to have reached foreign museums, and so little has been heard of the species since Peale's time that Rothschild, who was not aware of Townsend's discov- ery, included it among his "Extinct Birds" as "undoubtedly extinct." The chances are favorable for its present occurrence on suitable is- lands in the Tuamotu group--those on which cats and pigs (and foreign rats) have not been introduced. From Peale's account (in his MS. journal) of the difficulty of landing at Henuake, it is likely that this island is still in almost the same primitive condition as when he stopped there, and if so, the sandpiper will probably be found as