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Matuku: 'Challenger'.
Ovalau: Peale.
Taveuni: Layard (breeding freely).
Viti Levu: Layard; Storck; Williamson.
Circus juxta (or approximans) Peale. (t. 1., Mathuata, Fijis.)
Fijis generally: Peale; Layard, etc.
Muthuata: Peale.
Ovalau: Peale.
Viti Levu: Bahr.
Psittaci.
Hypocharmosyna aureicinctus (Layard.) (t. 1., Fijis--
supposed to be Ovalau.)
Ovalau: Layard.
Taveuni: Layard; Kleinschmidt.
Viti Levu: Layard; Williamson.
Layard says never less than a pair together, and often 6 or 8
seen in Company. Said to be a bird of the highlands.
Bahr did not see it, but was told it still occurs commonly in
mountain forests of Taveuni.
Phigys (formerly Coriphilus) solitarius (Suckow). (t. 1.,
Fiji Islands.)
Fijis: Cook's Voy.; Hüsker; Calvert.