-111- "Two terns, or wide-awakes" are reported by Dixon, who says they lay twice a year, in October and April. He writes: "On my first arrival on the island the flock would in this way cover 5 acres of ground, but in $2 \frac{1}{2}$ years the number had been reduced to one-fifth, principally in consequence of cats which had run wild and increased with extraordinary rapidity." ?Anous, species." The "Crow" reported by Dixon as one of the fourteen regular breeders on the island was probably a noddy. SCOLOPACIDAE. ?Phaëopus tahitiensis (Gmelin). ?Heteroscelus incanus (Gmelin). Dixon refers to a "snipe or sandpiper, and curlew" as "almost always on the island, either on the edge of the reef or near the small lagoons, but they did not breed there." There is a specimen of Heteroscelus incanus in the Brit. Museum, collected by "C." Campbell. ?ANATIDAE. ?Duck. Dixon refers to "a dark grey duck" as an occasional visitor to the island. PHAETHONTIDAE. Phaëthon rubricaudus Boddart? The 'Blonde' party found red-tailed tropic-birds at the