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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.)