General notes on South Pacific island groups
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-78- Kandavu: 'Challenger'. Matuku: 'Challenger'. Oneata: Bahr. Ovalau: Gräffe. Taveuni: Kleinschmidt. Viti Levu: Gräffe; Storck; Williamson; Bahr (now con- fined to less accessible parts.) Vanua Levu: Layard. "Throughout the group": Layard; but Bahr did not see it on Lakembe or Vanua Mbalavu. Pyrrhulopsis personatus (Gray). (t. l., supposed to be "New Guinea" but- Fijis.) Fijis: several early sources. Kandavu: Layard. Mbau: Brenchley. Ovalau: 'Challenger'. (Bahr thinks this bird, re- corded by Finsch, must have been introduced from Viti Levu.) Viti Levu: Rayner; Layard; Storck; voy. 'Alert'; Williamson; Bahr. Bahr (1912) says it is "fast disappearing" and will probably be the first to become extinct, and at no distant date.