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(7.) HORNE ISLANDS. BIRDS.
?Tubinares.
?Water birds generally.
There seem to be no records. Mt. Schouten,
on Fotuna, may be a breeding place for
petrels.
Treronidae.
Ptilinopus porphyraceus ("Forster" Temminck.) (t. 1., may be
Tongatabu.)
Fotuna: Layard. Layard says this "agrees precisely"
with a breeding male from the Tongas.
Psittaci. Parrots, etc.
Vini australis (Gmelin).
Fotuna: Layard.
Prionopidae.
Pinarolestes vitiensis fortunae (Layard). (t. 1., Fotuna.)
Fotuna: Layard.
Meliphagidae.
Meliphaga procerior flavo-aurita (Layard). (t. 1., Fotuna.)
Fotuna: Liardet; Layard; Ramsay (recorder).
Eulabetidae. Glossy Starlings.