General notes on South Pacific island groups
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-82- Tyto "candida" or longimembris (Jerdon). (t. l., India.) (Strix oustaleti Hartlaub (t. l., Viti Levu) is sais to be a synonym. Fijis: Fillingham. Viti Levu: Storck; Hartlaub (recorder); Sharpe (recorder) ?Caprimulgidae. ?Caprimulgus, species. Koro: Layard (reports a bird that may prove to be a species of Caprimulgus (P.Z.S., 1875, 427). The natives told him of a night bird, with large mouth, that lies in the path, until nearly tread upon. Micropodidae. Collocalia (or Zoonava) fuciphaga assimilis (Stresemann). (t. l., Fiji Islands.) (Both vanikorensis Quoy and Gaimard, and Zoonava francica oberholseri Mathews, have been recorded, but the above is suppos- ed to be the only form now known from the Fijis.) Fijis: Peale ("several of the "); Calvert; Gräffe. Mango: Layard. Thithia: Layard. Kandavu: Layard (in caves),, Viti Levu: Storck: Williamson; Bahr (common). Widely distributed: Gräffe; Layard.