-152- 23. Birds of Samoan group. (Birds of Ni[illegible] Island are listed beyond.) Phasianidae. Gallus gallus. (Megapodidae. Megapodius stairei Gray, based on an egg, was orig- inally recorded from "Samoa" but was later found to occur on the island of Niuafou, in the Tonga group. No megapode is now known to be native to the Samoan group.) (Turnicidae? Mason Mitchell includes a "Turnicidae taigur" among the birds of Samoa, but gives no information about it. No bird of this family is native of Samoa, but a species of Turnix may have been intro- duced.) Treronidae. Ptilinopus perousei Peale. (Type locality, Upolu). Samoan Ids. Whitmee ("not uncommon."). Savaii: Whitmee. Tutuila: R. C. Reed. Upolu: Peale; Gr[illegible]e; Whitmee; Layard (saw about 30 pair in one tree back in the forest); Mitchell. Ptilinopus fasciatus Peale. (Type locality, "Samoan" Ids.) ----- Layard (found it abundant); C. H. White. Throughout the group: Peale; Whitmee ("very common all over the islands"), etc. Tutuila: Peale; R. C. Reed. Upolu: Peale ("not uncommon"); Gr[illegible]e; Nicoll (not uncommon at 1000 ft.); Mitchell. (In earlier days there was some difference of opinion about this species; Whitmee thought it the female of perousei, but Layard believed it different.) Globicera pacifica (Gmelin). (Type locality, Friendly Islands.) Samoan Ids.: Peale; Whitmee ("exceedingly abundant in all the islands"); Layard (very abundant).