-91- (10) LINE OR FANNING GROUP. Family ________________? "Quails." Christmas: Bennett; Coulter. Bennett (May, 1834-35) refers to land birds under this name. He cruised for three years or more in the Pacific, and paid considerable attention to birds, especially sea birds. His "quails" were probably land birds of some sort, though hardly pigeons, as he met ground pigeons on Caroline Atoll and identified them as "doves." It should be recalled, however, that some of the pigeons of this genus (Galli-columba) flush like quails, and Bennett only "saw" the birds here. John Coulter visited Christmas Id. about the same time, and mentioned "occasionally getting a shot at a curlew, or on the land at a quail." (Adventures, etc., vol. I, 1847, p. 28.) If a quail, the bird must have been an introduced species, which perhaps flourished for a time, and later disappeared. As the ground pigeons did occur at Caroline Atoll, it is possible that they ranged as far as Christmas Island, and if so, the species would be new. PUFFINIDAE. ?Macronectes giganteus (Gmelin). Giant Petrel. ?Christmas: Gray. Wiglesworth suggests that a mistake may have been made here, and that Christmas Harbor, Kerguelen Id. is the more likely explanation.