-134- Charadriidae. Plovers. Pluvialis dominicus fulvus. Pacific Golden Plover. The only species recorded from this part of the Pacific; a winter migrant only, and of value only for records of occurrence and dates of appearance. Ardeidae. Herons. Demigretta sacra. Reef Heron. The ordinary heron of the Pacific; has a white and a dark phase of plumage, which occur and breed together, though a suspicion is entertained that a larger and a smaller subspecies occupy separate localities in various parts of the Polynesian region, but not enough material has been gathered from the different islands to prove it. Butorides stagnatilis. Related to our Green Heron. The Tahiti bird ought to prove different from the true stagnatilis of Australia, when enough fresh material is available for comparison. Anatidae. Ducks. Anas superciliosa, subspecies. General color above and below brown, mottled; upper part of head and a band through eye to occiput brown-black; speculum glossy green; wing 10.7 inches, or less. This bird probably varies throughout its range, but material is not very abundant to work out the several forms; collectors apparently have contented themselves with making up a specimen or two at the spot where first found, and then reporting it as "present" on various additional islands visited. This remark is also true of many other species, re- sulting in scanty material, scattered through the various museums of