-26- introduced; he did not guess at the genus or species. LORIIDAE. Vini kuhli (Vigors). (Type loc.: "Toohooteterooha" Id.) ?Tetuaroa. Vigors described the species from "Toohoo- teterooha", said to be "situated a day's sail" from Tahiti. This name was changed to Tuhutitiruha by Finsch, and by others into Tubuititiruba. If this island is in the Society group, it probably is equivalent to Tetuaroa. Ogilvie-Grant (Ibis, 1913, 347) says "It seems pretty certain that the true home of V. kuhli is the Society Group in the Islands of Tahiti, Borabora, etc., where it is probably now extinct, and that it must have been imported subsequently to the Fanning Group." He does not give his reasons for this conjecture, nor his authori- ties for its occurrence in the Society group. Lesson cites Bora- bora as a locality for the species, but this has probably been looked upon as an error of locality by recent authors. The various small lories are favorite cage birds with the natives of various islands in Polynesia, and it will be difficult to establish the true homes of some of them. In this case, it is known that the bird was a native of Fanning Island at the time of its discovery, in 1798, and there is not much likelihood of its having been carried there before that time, unless by the ancestors of the Hawaiians, who may have brought birds with them on their voyage from the southwest.