-165- This ends what we know of the birds of Samoa, including the island of Gente Hermosa. What we don't know will have to be told us by Rollo H. Beck and his assistants. Before leaving the main islands of Samoa, it would be well to say that they are in about the same condition of ornithological exploration that the Hawaiian Ids. were in 1880. For many years the Hawaiian Ids. were "finished" as to birds, until someone about 1887 stumbled on the fact that they were unknown, and started to investigate them in a modern way. The result was that about 10 additional new genera were discovered. The same story may be repeated in Samoa; for these large mountain masses must contain more birds than we now know.