-164- to be seen near the coast" except in July and August, when its food trees are in bloom). Savaii: Whitmee (saw it once in the mountains); Kubary. Upolu: Peale ("very rare," probably because their haunts are "quite limited in extent"); Gräffe; Whitmee, etc. Erythura (or Erythrura, as usually spelt) is a plastic genus, and is likely to differ on each island. Probably not enough specimens have been gathered together thus far to make a study of variation among the birds of the Samoan group, and it is desirable to get a series from each island where it occurs. The chances are that the birds of Upolu and Savaii (and Tutuila, if it occurs there) have thrived on their respective islands for countless years without any intermingling, and they ought to be different. ?Aegintha optata (Finsch & Hartlaub). (Type loc., supposed to be Upolu.) ?Upolu: Gräffe. The unique type was sent by Gräffe from Upolu, in spirits, and is now in the Museum at Hamburg. Wiglesworth suggests it may be the immature of A. temporalis, and in all probability an introduced species. It must be something of this sort, or an odd native bird that has been misidentified; for no Aegintha, or anything related to it, is a native of Polynesia. Eulabetidae (or Graculidae). Aplonis atrifusca (Peale). (Type loc., Samoan Ids.) ------ Dr. Hüsker; C. H. White. Samoan Ids.: Peale ("active and noisy"); Whitmee ("very common and exceedingly bold"). Savaii: Kubary; Whitmee (very common). Tutuila: Peale; Pickering (MS.)--observed; Nicoll (fairly com- mon); R. C. Reed. Upolu: Peale; Gräffe; Pickering (MS.)--observed; Layard (common in little flocks); Nicoll (fairly abundant). Aplonis brevirostris (Peale). (Type loc., Samoan Ids.) ------ Whitmee ("confined to the bush"); Rev. T. Heath (1846). Various islands: Layard ("common throughout the island of Samoa"). Samoan Ids.: Peale ("not common"). Tutuila: Brenchley; R. C. Reed. Upolu: Peale; Gräffe; Layard.