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Megalopterus melanogenys (Gray).
Raiatea: Young.
?Tahaa: Bennett.
Anous stolidus pileatus (Scopoli).
Society Islands: Forster; 'Novara' Exped., etc.
Bellingshausen: Peale.
Huaheine: Wodehouse.
Raiatea: Young.
Near Tahiti: Nicoll.
[A. stolidus unicolor (Nordmann) is differentiated by some
authors for the Society and Tuamotu bird.]
Procelsterna cerulea teretirostris (Lafresnaye).
Raiatea: Young (recorded by Saunders).
Onychoprion lunatus (Peale). (Type locality: Kawehe,
Tuamotus.)
Tahiti: Garrett (recorded by Saunders).
Thalasseus bergii rectirostris (Peale). (Type locality: Fijis.)
Huaheine: Wodehouse; Garrett.
Raiatea: Wodehouse; Garrett; Young.
SCOLOPACIDAE.
(G. Forster found "snipes" in "great plenty" along the shores
and in the marshes on Raiatea, in Sept., 1773, and again in May,
1774.)
Phaëopus tahitiensis (Gmelin). (Type locality: Tahiti.)