-124- Puffinus gavia (Forster). (t.l., Queen Charlotte Sound, N.Z.) N. Cal.: recorded by Gray, but Godman says he does not know upon what authority. Puffinus tenuirostris (Temminck). (T.l., Japanese seas.) N. Cal. (seas?): Layard records it from waters of Neketti Bay, on the east side of N. Cal., from a specimen brought to him alive (Ibis, 1882, 539). He calls it P. brevicaudus. Hydrobatidae. Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl). (t.l., South Atlantic.) N. Cal.: Layard; recorded from Havanica Pass, east side of N. Cal. Layard says (Ibis, 1882, 539) "we have seen other small Petrels off the coasts of the island which we have not procured, though we think we have rightly identified them,"***" Laridae. Bruchigavia novae hollandiae forsteri Mathews. (t.l., New Caledonia.) N. Cal.: Verreaux; Jouan; Macgillivray; Layard. ?Botany Id.: Forster. (Forster described it from a "parvula insula ad orientam Novae Caledoniae sita, gregaria," which may re- fer to Botany Id.) ?Larus, species. Marie is said to have obtained another species of gull in New Caledonia (see Wiglesworth, Aves Polynesiae, p.79), but the species and the record appear to be uncertain. Sternidae. (Montrouzier mentions terms of two or more species, names not mentioned as occurring on Huon and Surprise Islands.) Gygis (or Leucanus) alba, subspecies. N. Cal.: Wiglesworth records this as obtained by Deplanche, but Brasil does not include it in his report on birds collected by Deplanche and Jouan. Megalopterus minutus minutus (Boie). (t.l., Australia.) N. Cal.: Jouan; Marie. Anous stolidus, subspecies. N. Cal.: Gray (records it); Jouan. Wiglesworth cites Jouan, but Brasil does not include this among the species collected by Jouan and Deplanche.