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Vama Levu: Layard; Gräffe.
Viti Levu: Layard; Gräffe. (Layard's son got it on Rewa River.)
Layard says it breeds in the interior of some islands, in rookeries.
"Puffinus brevicauda" was seen by Bahr.
"Procellaria alba" Gmelin, is recorded from Vatoa, by Latham.
Loomis identifies this with P. brevirostris Peale; hence Pterdroma
alba (Gmelin). See under Line or Ranning Islands.
Pterdroma brevipes (Peale). (t. l., Lat. 68 degrees south;
Long. 95 degrees west.) (AEstrelatl "torquata"
of some other authors.)
Viti Levu: Kleinschmidt (May, 1878).
Pterodroma leucoptera (Gould). (t. l., Australian Seas.)
Fijis: Filhol.
Bulweria macgillivrayi (Gray). (t. l., Ngau, Fijis.)
Ngau: Rayner, in Oct., 1855.
Recorded from Ngau, but not as a breeding bird. Yet it may
breed somewhere in the Fijis.
Halobaena caerulea (Gmelin). (t. l., Southern Seas.)
Fijis: Gräffe.
N. e. Fijian seas: Layard.
Vama Levu: Layard.
Layard says it breeds in mountains interiors of several Fiji
islands, "even as far inland as the interior of Viti Levu", and
it "differs much" from the Cape of Good Hope "caerulea."