-127- Spatula rhynchotis (Latham). (t.l., Australia.) N. Cal.: Marie; Layard; Sarasin. Nyroca australis Eyton. (t.l., Australia.) N. Cal.: Marie; Layard; Sarasin. "Casarca variegata?" (Gmelin). (t.l., New Zealand.) N. Cal.: Layard (a bird which he guesses to be this species was described to him as occurring at Cap Goulain, at the n. end of N. Cal.) Phaethontidae. Phaethon "candidus" (of Wiglesworth's list). N. Cal.: Verreaux, etc. Huon and Surprise Ids.: Montrouzier. Phaethon aethereus Linnaeus. (t.l., Ascension Id.) N. Cal.: Gray records it. Phaethon rubricaudus Boddart. (t.l., Mauritius.) N. Cal.: Jouan; Layard. Huon Ids.: Montrouzier; Layard (breeds commonly). Surprise Ids.: Montrouzier; Layard (breeds commonly). Sulidae. Sula piscator (Linnaeus). (t.l., Java seas.) N. Cal.: Jouan; Layard. (Wiglesworth cites Jouan as having obtained this species on New Caledonia, but Brasil records only the following species in his list of birds collected by Deplanche and Jouan.) Sula leucogaster plotus (Forster). (t.l., near New Caledonia.) N. Cal.: Forster, Jouan; Verreaux, etc. Huon Ids.; Layard. Surprise Ids.: Layard. Phalacrocoracidae. Mesocarbo ater ater (Lesson). (t.l., west Australia.) N. Cal.: Deplanche. (Wiglesworth records only one species, under the name Microcarbo melanolaeucus; Ogilvie-Grant records only Phalacrocorax sulcirostris (Brandt); Brasil records only Mesocarbo ater; possibly all these records pertain to one species. Layard did not meet with cormorants, but says one was described to him as occurring at Cap Goulain, at the north end of the island(see Ibis, 1882, 542).