-96- ANATIDAE. Chaulelasmus couesi Streets. (Type locality: Washington Id.) Washington: Streets. The fresh-water lake and peat bogs are "tenanted" by this species, according to Streets. "Duck." Fanning. The Hydrographic Pilot says "Snipe, duck, and curlew can be shot" on Fanning Island, but no date is given. If this be true, the duck may be the preceding, or a species not yet recorded from the group. In view of the reported migration of G. streperus from America to the Marshall Islands, it would be well to re-examine the types (a pair of supposed immature birds) of G. couesi, to determine if they may not be immature C. streperus. PHAETHONTIDAE. Phaethon aethereus Linnaeus. Christmas: Gray. Phaethon rubricaudus Boddaert. Christmas: Bennett--"many", with eggs in May; Streets-- breeding, with eggs in Jan.; Macfarlane. SULIDAE. Bennett (I, p. 383) says of Christmas Island birds: "The boobies are of a kind peculiar to this island. In size and colour they bear a