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two specimens of this bird are extant, and that both are ascribed to
"Hervey" Island. Not found by later collectors, and doubtless extinct
on the larger (and usually visited) islands, but possibly still to be
found on some small islet.
The 'Blonde' party found a species on Mauiki, but its identity
is uncertain.
HYDROBATIDAE.
Pelagodroma marina passerina (Solander) Mathews. (Type locality:
Hervey group. east of Kermadec Islands.)
Mathews says this name may "later prove acceptable for a bird, either
of the Kermadec breeding, or may be a Cook Island subspecies", but he
gives no special locality in the Hervey group for the bird.
The 'Blonde' party (Aug. 9, 1825) saw "some tarn and petrels"
at Mauiki.
PHAETHONTIDAE.
Phaethon aethereus Linnaeus.
Palmerston: Latham.
Phaethon rubricaudus Boddaert.
Hervey group: Latham.
Palmerston: Latham; Ellis.
FREGATIDAE.
Fregata minor palmerstoni (Gmelin). [Type loc.: Palmerston.]
Palmerston: Latham.