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described torquata (which Salvin synonymizes with
brevipes), say it "Breeds in burrows on the wooded
mountains of the interior of the island, the highest
of which attains an elevation of 2788 feet. A young
bird, not many days old, and covered with black down,
was brought me on the 14th of February, but I have not
yet seen an egg. The Aneiteumese name is Katébu." (Zoologist, 1860, 7134.) Macgillivray says he has
seen the species off the coast of Tanna and Bromanga,
and a native of Tanna told him it breeds in his dis-
district, which began about 12 miles south of Port Re-
solution.
Pterodroma rostrata (Peale). (T.l., Tahiti.)
Aneiteum: Macgillivray.
Puffinus lherminieri "subsp. n."
?New Hebrides. Mathews indicates a new form
from the New Hebrides, which he thinks may prove the
same as Procellaria nugax Solander (for the Queens-
land bird). Mathews does not give any definite record
or locality for the New Hebrides.
Hydrobatidae.
Fregetta albogularis (Finsch). (T.l., Fijis.)
Aneiteum: Macgillivray (breeding; eggs in January)
New Hebrides: Heine & Reichenow (record it)
Sternidae.
Thalasseus bergii rectirostris (Peale).
(T.l., Fiji Ids.)
----: Layard.
Aneiteum: Inglis; Forbes & Robinson (record it;
spn. in Liverpool Mus.)
Anous stolidus, subspecies.
Aneiteum: Inglis.
Gygis (or Leucanous) alba, subspecies.
Aniwa: Inglis.
Scolopacidae.
Vetola lapponica baueri (Naumann). (T.l., Australia)
Aneiteum: Macgillivray; Inglis ("very plentiful")
?Aniwa: Inglis. Tristram had an immature bird
he thought might be melanuroides, collected by