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Tahiti: Forster.
Prosobonia ellisi Sharpe. (Type locality: Moorea.)
Moorea: Ellis.
Sharpe based this species on a drawing made by Wm. W.
Ellis, of a bird from "Eimeo" = Moorea. No specimens are known,
and the bird is probably long since extinct. There is, and prob-
ably always will be, doubt as to whether this is a distinct form,
or only a phase of plumage of the following.
Prosobonia leucoptera (Gmelin). (Type locality: Tahiti.)
Tahiti: Forster.
Only one ancient specimen extant, in the Leyden Museum.
The species probably long extinct.
Heteroscelus incanus (Gmelin). (Type locality: Moorea and
Palmerston Islands.)
Society Islands: Forster, etc.
Huaheine: Garrett; Gould collection; Wodehouse.
Raiatea: Forster; Bennett?
Tahaa: Bennett.
Tahiti: Forster; Liverpool Mus.; Peale; Wilson.
Bennett refers to a "Totamus" with blue legs, on Raiatea;
probably this species.
CHARADRIIDAE.
Pluvialis dominica fulva (Gmelin). (Type locality: Tahiti.)