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be different. (See note under next species.)
Anas superciliosa Gmelin. (Type locality: New Zealand.)
Huaheine: Forster; Garrett; Wodehouse.
Raiatea: Forster (in "great plenty").
Tahiti: Forster; Banks; Peale; Voy. 'Challenger';
Wilson; Townsend.
Georg Forster records "great flocks of ducks upon the
lagoon" of Huaheine, on May 16, 1774; and also that Jos. Banks
got three at "one shott" on April 15, 1769, at Tahiti.
Bennett says that a wild duck, differing in plumage from
those of the coast, occurred at Vaihiria lake, on the highest
mountain at the north end of Tahiti. Scott Wilson visited this
crater lake, but mentions no unusual duck, though he found A.
superciliosa fairly abundant in the district of Haapepe (in May),
and "throughout the Tahiti group." Townsend saw A. superciliosa
at Lake Vaihiria, though he did not collect any specimens.
Wetmore recognizes the Society bird as subspecies pelewensis,
but without Pelew birds for comparison.
PHAETHONTIDAE.
(Peale found at least one species breeding in the mountains
of Tahiti.)
Phaethon rubricaudus Boddart. (Type loc.: Mauritius.)
Society Ids.: Latham; Peale.
Tahaa: Bennett.