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Bolabola: Lesson.
Huaheine: Forster; Wodehouse.
Tahiti: Forster.
?TYTONIDAE.
?Tyto alba lulu (Peale).
"Tupai": Forster.
This is doubtless the island Tubai or Motuiti, a few miles n. by w. of Bolabola, and apparently the only record of an owl for this group. The only other guess possible, is that Tubuai, in the Austral group is meant.
MICROPODIDAE.
(Forster and other early visitors collected or recorded edible-nest swiftlets from Tahiti, but it is not possible at present to correctly place these records under the several species.)
Collocalia ocista Oberholser. (Type locality: Nukuhiva, Marquesas group.)
Tahiti: Townsend.
Collocalia leucophaea (Peale). (Type locality: Tahiti.)
Tahiti: Peale.
Collocalia thesnesia Oberholser. (Type locality: Tahiti.)
Tahiti: Townsend.
Collocalia francica spodiopygia (Peale). (Type locality: Upolu.)
Tahiti: Peale.