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Society Islands: Forster; Garrett.
Tahiti: Forster.
ARDEIDAE.
Demigretta sacra sacra (Gmelin). (Type locality: Tahiti.)
Society Islands: various collectors.
Bolabola: Brit. Mus.
Huaheine: Forster; Wodehouse.
Raiatea: Forster.
Tahaa: Forster; Bennett.
Tahiti: Forster; Challenger exped.; Wilson.
Wilson found it fairly common.
Butorides stagnatilis (Gould).
Tahiti: Peale; Wilson.
Tahiti is the type locality of Peale's Ardea patruelis,
a synonym of the above. Wilson found it at Lake Vairia, a crater
lake, and along the mountain streams of Tahiti.
ANATIDAE.
?Chaulelasmus couesi Streets.
Tahiti: Forster.
Forster observed a species that he identified as a gad-
wall, but it was most likely a resident species, and for the
present can be conveniently carried under the above name, as
Wiglesworth has done, though in all probability it will prove to