General notes on South Pacific island groups
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-155- Poliolimmas cinereus tannensis (Forster). So recognized by Ingram. ---- Whitmee (not rare, but hides closely in swamps, etc.; he thinks it occurs on all the islands). Upolu: Gr"affe. Porzana tabuensis (Gmelin). ---- Whitmee; Gr"affe, etc. Upolu: Gr"affe. Puffinidae. Apparently no AEstrelata (Pterodroma) recorded from the group. ?Halobaena coerulea. Off Apolima: Layard (saw this, or "what serves for it in these seas.") Puffinus "obscurus." Tau: Powell (cf. Salvin, Ibis, 1868, 357); Mrs. Cusack-Smith (in Brit. Mus.). Puffinus carneipes? "Near Samoa": (Ramsay, ex Whitmee colln.). Ramsay records this Whitmee bird as "Puffinus (Nectris) carneipes?" and notes that the nostrils and culmen are blackish. Puffinus "assimilis". ---- Layard. Puffimus temirostris (Temminck). Recorded by Salvin (Brit. Mus. Cat., xxv, p. 369), but it may prove to be one of the preceding. Hydrobatidae. Fregetta moestissima Salvin. (Type locality, Samoa, especially Tau.) All the islands: Powell.