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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.