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Ovalau: H. & J.; Gräffe; Layard.
Viti Levu: Gräffe; Layard; Storck; Bahr. Barks like a dog; heard commonly. The fat of the male is yellow, and green in the female, and of a sweet odor.
RALLIDAE.
Porphyrio melanonotus vitiensis Peale. (t. 1., Fiji Islands.)
Fiji Ids.; Peale (supposed to be rare).
Mango: Layard.
Mokongai: Layard.
Ovalau: Peale; Layard.
Taveuni: Layard; Bahr (said to be still common.)
Vanua Mbalavu: Layard.
Vanua Levu: Layard.
Viti Levu: Layard; Williamson; Bahr (thinks it and all other rails now extinct on Viti Levu.)
Wakaia: Layard.
(Sharpe, B. M. Cat., XXIII, p. 202, records P. elliotti from Viti Levu (Rayner) in addition to the preceding, "smaragdonotus").
Poliolimnas cinereus (Vieillot). (Ingram recognizes this as P. c. tannensis (Forster).
Ngau: Rayner.