-150- -- -- Cunningham is credited with a bird or more from Upolu. Theodor Kleinschmidt, a collector of Fiji birds (killed in New Britain, July, 1881), got some birds at Upolu. Chas. H. Townsend, on the Agassiz Pacific Exped., 1899-1900, gath- ered a few birds at Apia, Upolu, Dec. 26, 1899. He did a lit-tle collecting at Ni'ue, when the 'Albatross' stopped there "for a few hours" on Nov. 25, 1899, but thinks there may be "other land birds, as my brief search for birds was necessarily con- fined to the vicinity of Alofi village." Lieut. Richard C. Reed, U. S. N., collected some birds on Tutuila, about 1920-21, for the National Museum. Voyage of 'Astrolabe' and 'Zélee' (under Dumont d'Urville); Hombron & Jacquinot were the naturalists. They collected at Apia, Upolu, in Sept., 1838. Unfortunately, many of the birds from the Samoan group have been labelled simply from "Samoa", without reference to the individual islands; hence it is difficult to give the exact habitats for many of them. In Peale's time, the natives of Samoa had developed a fondness for cats, which they secured from passing ships. Many cats took to the woods, and became wild, preying on the Dodo Pigeon and other ground