-95- Christmas: Latham (ex Banks collection); Ellis. Not recorded since Cook's time, and no example now extant. If cats or pigs have not run wild here in the interval since Cook's visit, there is a fair chance the species may still exist; for this short- billed sandpiper was almost too small to be pursued for sport or food, and the island is large enough (40 x 35 miles), with much sand and coral rock, sufficient to sustain a bird of this kind. A close ally has been found on three islands in the Tuamotu group, about 2000 miles away, and probably occurs on more of them. (See under next species.) The few "collectors" who have visited Christmas and other islands of this group seem to have done very indifferent work. Streets was a U. S. Naval surgeon; MacFarlane was a British Naval man, and Arundel was mainly interested in the exploitation of guano and cocoanut-oil; all of them pure amateurs. Crocethia alba (Pallas). Sanderling. Christmas: Streets--common. Palmyra: Streets--more common. This identification is by Wiglesworth; Streets called it "a species of Tringa", and it is not improbably that this was Aechmorhynchus cancellatus! Streets did not get any specimens. CHARADRIIDAE. Pluvialis dominicus fulvus (Gmelin). Pacific Golden Plover. Christmas: Streets--common; Ellis. Fanning: Arundel. Palmyra: Streets--more common than on Christmas.