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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