-153- Apolima: Whitmee. Manono: Whitmee. Savaii: Pickering (MS.); Kubary. Tutuila: Pickering (MS.); Whitmee; R. C. Reed. Upolu: Peale (woods "abounded with them"); Pickering (MS.); Griffe; Whitmee. Columbidae. Janthoenas castaneiceps (Peale). (Type locality, Upolu.) -----Layard (not common). Apolima: Whitmee (saw it). Manono: Whitmee (saw it). Savaii: Whitmee. Upolu: Peale; Griffe; Whitmee; Mitchell. Peristeridae. Gallicolumba stairi (Gray). (Type locality, said to be Samoa.) Samoan Ids.: Whitmee ('3 spns. in Tristram colln.); Layard (rare, got only 1 spn.). Upolu: Griffe; Mitchell. Whitmee says "widely distributed" but not frequently met with. Finsch calls the species samoensis, distinguishing it from the Fiji and Tongan species, and Salvadori follows him, thinking the type of stairi is more like the Fiji birds. Didunculidae. Didunculus strigirostris (Jardine). (Type locality not known; probably Upolu.) Samoan Ids.: Whitmee; Layard (did not see it himself, but had one brought to him; Brenchley. Savaii: Bennett (rec'd it in Sydney, in 1843, July); Griffe; Kubary, etc. Tutuila: (this id. is cited by Salvadori, in Brit. Mus. Catalogue). Upolu: Peale; Walpole; Bennett (rec'd one in Sydney, in June, 1843); Griffe; Mitchell, etc. Jardine described the species in 1845, from an unknown locality; G. Bennett records a bird from Upolu, that reached Sydney in June, 1843, and another that was received July 24, 1843, from Savaii. One of these was preserved in spirits and the other was sent alive to the Zool. Soc. London. Bennett (P. Z. S., 1864, 14l) says "I was in- formed that these birds are nearly extinct, from having