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DIOMEDEIDAE.
Diomedea melanophris Temminck.
South Fijian seas. Layard says (1876) "Baron von Hugel
testifies that he saw this bird within sight
of Kandavu."
HYDROBATIDAE (or THALASSIDROMIDAE).
Pelagodroma marina (Latham).
Bahr (1912) says this species was "met with" by him
in Fijian waters.
Fregetta albigularis (Finsch). (t. l. Kandavu, Fijis.)
Kandavu: Kleinschmidt.
Ovalau: Boyd.
Viti Levu: Boyd. Ramsay (Proc, Linn. Soc. N.S.W., VII,
1882, 113) mintions this as breeding (common)
on Muani vatu, the highest peak in interior of
Viti Levu, in May and June, in "thick fr ests
in high mountain tops, digging a hole in the
earth in a slanting direction, about two feet in
length, and lay one, but sometimes two eggs at
the end of the burrow."***and they also breed
on Ovalau. (Based on data supplied by A. Boyd,
who collected them--or the eggs.)
PUFFINIDAE.
Puffinus assimilis Gould. (t.l., New South Wales.)