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(6) HERVEY OR COOK GROUP.
TRERONIDAE.
Globicera pacifica (Gmelin). (Type loc.: Friendly = Tonga Ids.)
Rarotonga: Garrett; Wilson; Ogilvie-Grant.
Wilson thinks it will become exterminated in the not distant future
by the wild cats and the "frequent cyclones" that occur there.
Salvadori (Brit. Mus. Cat.) says it is not certain this is true
pacifica.
Ptilinopus rarotongensis Hartlaub & Finsch. (Type locality:
Rarotonga.)
Rarotonga: Garrett; Wilson; Ogilvie-Grant.
Wilson did not find the bird himself, but had one given him.
Ptilinopus chalcurus Gray. (Type loc.: "Hervey or Harvey" Id.)
"Hervey or Harvey" Id.: Gray.
This species was based on a specimen in the British Museum, said to
be from the above named island, but the status of the bird and the iden-
tity of the island both appear to be in doubt. Wiglesworth thinks
chalcurus is probably the young of rarotongensis; Salvadori makes it a
synonym of his coralensis (which is not true coralensis), and thinks the
locality given by Gray is wrong.
Forbes and Robinson record P. "coralensis" from the "Harvey
Islands", based on a bird in the Museum of Liverpool, and probably iden-
tified by means of Salvadori's work. It would appear then, that at least