Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. 30, Descriptions of twenty-five new species and subspecies. American Museum novitates ; no. 820

Various circumstances are delaying the publication of the detailed de- scriptions of many of the new species and subspecies collected by the Whitney Expedition.It was therefore decided to publish, as an abstract of the complete paper, the following preliminary descriptions.The de- tailed paper, with tables of measurements and discussions on variation, relationship and nomenclature, is ready for the press and will be pub- lished in the present series as soon as possible.Haliaeetus sanfordi, new species TYPE.-No.220671, Amer.Mus.Nat.Hist.; e ad.