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Ovalau: Peale; Layard; etc.
Viti Levu: Gräffe; Layard; Storck; Bahr (1912) thinks
all rails now extinct on this island. Layard
found it in far interior of Viti Levu, on
the Rewa River. Bahr (1912) calls this
"Porzana plumbea (Gray)" and says peculiar
to Viti Levu, and now extinct. Ovalau is
the type locality of Zapornia Umbrina Cassin
(t. 1. Ovalau); supposed to be the same.
Eulabeornis poeciloptera (Hartlaub). (t. l. "Viti Levu";
type in Hamburg Museum.)
Bolau, in Mitteil. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, XV, 1898,
p. 70, gives the type locality as "Ovalau",
collected by Gräffe.
Ovalau: Gräffe; Layard.
Viti Levu: Layard; Storck; Williamson. Layard had a male
and 4 eggs brought to him from Rewa R., Viti Levu.
Hypotaenidia philippensis sethsmithi (Mathews). (t. l.,
Fiji Islands.)
Fijis: Hüsker.
Ovalau: Rayner; Layard.
Vanua Levu: Peale, etc.
Viti Levu: Storck (under the name "pectoralis").
Vanua Mbalavu: Bahr saw two at Loma Loma, but did not
get them.