General notes on South Pacific island groups
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-67- 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.