-32- likely there are (or were) two or more forms on this group, since Conopoderas is quite plastic and easily splits up into races on various islands in other groups. PLOCEIDAE. (Introduced species.) Lonchura castaneothorax (Gould). Bolabola: Townsend. Tahiti: Townsend. Aegintha temporalis (Latham). Tahiti: Townsend. STURNIDAE. (Introduced species.) ?Acridotheres tristis (Linnaeus). Tahiti: Nicoll. Nicoll says "Minahs (Gracula)" had been imported and were abundant; probably this species was intended. ?EULABETIDAE. Aplonis? ulietensis (Gmelin). (Type locality: Raiatea.) Raiatea: Forster. Only known, apparently, from Forster's description and drawing. On the basis of the latter, Seebohm (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., v, 277, note, pl. xvi) introduced the species as a Merula; but Sharpe (Cat. Birds, xiii, 135, note) found in an old mounted specimen what he thought might be the actual type of Gmelin's name, formerly in the Banks collection. This he named Aplonis inornata, though it had already apparently received the name A. mavornata Buller. Wiglesworth points out that the description