General notes on South Pacific island groups
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-28- Kuhl described it, but has disappeared; one other is now in that museum, and two in Liverpool Museum (one of them coll. by Banks, and possibly the type); Lieut. Marolles got four or five at Tahiti about 1844, and this is the last record. ?Cyanoramphus magnirostris Forbes and Robinson. (Type Locality: Tahiti?.) ?Tahiti: Based on an ancient specimen in Liverpool Museum. Salva- dori (Ibis, 1907, 315) thinks it requires further examination. ?Cyanoramphus ulietanus (Gmelin). (Type locality: Raiatea.) ?Raiatea ("Ulietea"): Latham. One specimen in London, and another in Vienna (the latter, type of Latham's description), are the only ones known. Wiglesworth thinks that if it actually came from Raiatea, it may prove to be the young of C. erythronotus. ?Cyanoramphus cyanurus Salvadori. ?Tahiti: Mus. Liverpool. Salvadori is inclined to question this locality (Ibis, 1907, 316). The species occurs on Raoul, Meyer, and Macaulay Islands, in the Kermadec group, where "wild" cats have snuffed it out on at least one of the islands. CUCULIDAE. Urodynamis taitensis taitensis (Sparrman). (Type locality: Tahiti.)