-70- out of the sight of ornithologists. It has been placed in Eopsaltria and also in Pachycephala, by various authors, but it is in all prob- ability something quite different. One student has suggested (but not in print) its identity as a Conopoderas, but as Lesson was the proposer of the genus Tatare (= Conopoderas), based on the Tahitian species, he would probably have recognized its affinities, were it a member of this genus. ("Dicaeidae." Pinaroloxias inornatus figured for many years as a bird of Bow (or Hau) Island, in this group, but it proves to be a member of the Fringillidae, from Cocos Island, off Panama, where Bel- cher's ship also stopped.) SYLVIIDAE. (Peale makes the following general observations on the genus below: "We obtained specimens of this variable species, at the Paumotu Group of islands, at Tahiti, at the Samoan Islands, at Tongatabu, and sundry other places in the South Pacific Ocean. It is the most widely spread of all the Polynesian land-birds. The most usual colour is pale buff beneath; brown wings and tail, the feathers of the latter tipped with buff; and the back and head mottled with brown and buff. We have not seen any two specimens exactly alike: they vary from a chocolate- brown to white; in fact they vary in markings, colour, and size, al- most as much as domestic poultry; but their sprightly wren-like actions, and sweet song, are the same in all. They frequent close bushy patches