-99- ?Washington: Streets. The distinctions between this species and the preceding were determined by Tristram through comparison of his specimens with the original description of aequinoctialis. Dr. Streets got some skins of probably the same species on Washington Island, which he identi- fied as a "flycatcher-like bird"; these he intended to send to the Smithsonian, but they were lost. They were different from the Christ- mas Island bird, for he says "a bird similar to these, but smaller and somewhat browner--which I think can be accounted for by the altered condition of its surroundings--was found on Christmas Island, where it was the only land bird."