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Phaethon "candidus"-(of Wiglesworth).
Fijis: Leyard.
Layard said (1876) he had positively identified the three species as inhabitants of "these islands" (the Fijis).
Phaethon aethereus Linnaeus. (t. l., Ascension Island).
Fijis: Gräffe; Layard.
Vanua Mbalavu: Bahr; encountered it off coast, in July; probably breeding.
Phaethon rubricaudus Boddaert. (t. l., Mauritius).
(Probably Scaeophaethon rubricaudus melanorhynchus (Gmelin) of Mathews, from Turtle Island, and Palmerston Islands).
Fijis: Layard.
Sulidae.
Sula leucogaster plotus (Forster). (t. l., near Caledonia.)
Ovalau: Layard.
Fijis: Gräffe; Layard.
Sula piscator (Linnaeus). (t. l., Java Seas.)
Sula "cyanops".
Was met with by Bahr.
Fregatidae.