General notes on South Pacific island groups
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-27- Phigys solitarius (Suckow). (Type loc.: "island of Feejee.") ?Tahiti: Latham. A Fijian species, introduced into the Tongas, and into Tahiti, if Latham was correct as to the locality. Coriphilus peruvianus (Miller). (Type loc.: "Peru" = Tahiti). Bolabola: Lesson; Garrett; Wilson; Townsend. Huaheine: Gould collection. Moorea: Garrett; Peale; Gray. Raiatea: Tahaa: Tahiti: Forster; Peale; Garrett. Had become extinct on Huaheine, Raiatea, and Tahaa by or before 1874 (Garrett); and Wilson says (1904) it is "without doubt" extinct on Moorea and Tahiti, but still occurs on Bolabola. Wilson was assured that a paroquet existed on Moorea a few years anterior to 1904. Wilson has described a C. cyaneus (later cyanescens) from Bolabola, but it proves to be the immature of the above (all blue, without white throat). PSITTACIDAE. Cyanoramphus erythronotus (Kuhl). (Type locality: "Nova Hollandia" = Tahiti). Raiatea: Forster. Tahiti: Banks; Forster; Marolles. The type was in Brit. Mus. (ex Bullock Mus.) at the time