-2- Voyage of the 'Sulphur' (under Sir Edward Belcher) visited Ta- hiti April 5-May 8, 1840; Dr. Hinds collected specimens. U. S. Exploring Expedition visited Tahiti, Bellingshausen, Moorea, in 183--; Peale and Pickering, naturalists. Voyage of the 'Novara' visited Tahiti about 1857-59; Johann Zele- bor, naturalist, and von Hochstetter and von Frauenfeld also accompanied it. Voyage of the 'Challenger' visited Tahiti about 1872-76; H. N. Moseley was one of the naturalists. Agassiz Expedition to the Tropical Pacific, visited Tahiti, Bola- bola, Maitea, in 1899; Dr. C. H. Townsend, naturalist. He spent a half hour on Maitea (or Mehetia), but was apparently occupied in making observations for Agassiz, for he only shot one bird, a booby. He thinks it "may be worth a careful exam- ination by the ornithologist." On Bolabola he spent "a whole afternoon of diligent exploration" for birds, but found only three land species--one of them introduced. This island is said to be difficult to travel over, owing to the nature of the surface, hence more time will be necessary to examine it thoroughly. F. D. Bennett visited Tahiti, Raiatea, and Tahaa, in 183--. Of the last named, he says (I, p. 163) "some of the land birds which inhabit the more interior and elevated woods have a