General notes on South Pacific island groups
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-84- Heteroscelus incanus (Gmelin). Marquesas Ids.: Jardin; Green, etc. Nukuhiva: Townsend. Tahuta: Forster. Forster (1844, p. 174) described a variety of his Scolopax undu- lata from Tahuta--probably the present species. CHARADRIIDAE. Pluvialis dominicus fulvus (Gmelin). Marquesas Ids.: Jardin; Liverpool Mus. (Green). ARDEIDAE. Demigretta sacra sacra (Gmelin). Marquesas Ids.: Forster; Jardin; Green, etc. PHAETHONTIDAE. (A species of Phaethon breeds (or did breed) on Motuiti, accord- ing to Bennett.) Phaethon lepturus Daudin. Marquesas Ids.: Jardin. Phaethon rubricaudus Boddaert. Townsend obtained 3 skins about 600 miles east of this group. SULIDAE. Sula piscator (Linnaeus). Marquesas Ids.: Jardin. Tahuta: Bennett.