-148- 23. Samoan group. Collectors, etc. Georg Forster (June 21, 1774), on Cook's Voyage, was at Niue, and observed "some curlews, snipes, and herons." Kotzebue touched at Upolu (at least) about 1824-25. Peale and Pickering (U. S. Exploring Exped.) visited the islands twice (between 1838-41). Rev. John B. Stair (in 1862, of Broadmeadows, Victoria), was a resident of the Samoan Islands about 1847, and collected birds there. Rev. S. J. Whitmee collected in Samoa (1872-75 at least), and Tristram and the Brit. Museum got some of his material. He added something to the history of the rare Pareudiastes pacificus. Rev. Geo. Brown obtained some birds, from Savaii (at least). Rev. Thos. Powell, was living on Upolu (while a missionary), and prob- ably collected a few birds there, as well as on Tau and Tutuila (including the type of Pinarolestes powelli). E. L. Layard, about 1875, visited some of the islands (but did not touch at Tutuila); he gave a general account of the birds seen or ob- tained, in P. Z. S., 1876, 490-506. Lieut. J. Murray, of H. M. S. 'Daphne', visited the Samoan Islands in 1849-50, "where he procured for us some very interesting species" (Jardine, Contrib. Orn., 1851, p. 113). Julius L. Brenchley obtained some birds (on Tutuila, at least); his death occurred just before the publication of his work 'Jottings' on the cruise of the Curacoa, in 1873.