General notes on South Pacific island groups
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-134- Glycyphila undulata (Sparrman). (t.l., New Caledonia?) N. Cal.: Forster; Jouan; Deplanche; Layard; Sarasin. Glycyphila incana (Latham). (t.l., New Caledonia.) N. Cal.: Forster; Jouan; Deplanche; Layard; Sarasin. Myzomela sanguineolenta caledonica Forbes. (t.l., N. Caledonia.) N. Cal.: Verreaux; Jouan; Deplanche; Layard; Sarasin. Ploceidae. Erythura psittacea (Gmelin). (t.l., New Caledonia.) N. Cal.: Forster; Jouan; Deplanche; Layard; Sarasin, etc. (Layard says "generally distributed", and that it feeds largely on grass seed and at certain seasons on Casuarina seeds.) Eulabetidae. Aplonis striata (Gmelin). (t.l., New Caledonia.) N. Cal.: Forster; Jouan; Layard; Sarasin, etc. Isle of Pines: Macgillivray. (Layard says "common and widely distributed" in N. Cal.) Corvidae. Physocorax moneduloides (Lesson). (t.l., not given, but = N. Cal.) N. Cal.: Forster; Jouan; Deplanche; Layard; Sarasin, etc. (G. Forster, under date of Sept. 7, 1774, writes: "we shot some curious birds by the way, with which the country abounds; and among the rest a species of crow, which is common in Europe." Layard says it is "not uncommon in the forest-regions.") ?Corvus australis Gould. (t.l., Australia.) N. Cal.: Marie records this species (under the name coron- oides), but it seems not to have been found by others, though Layard writes that a friend "confirmed a report" that "the Crows of the west coast were a far larger species than the little Physocorax moneduloides, Less., of the eastern coast. He says they do not come down within sixty or eighty miles of Noumea, but that where found they are not uncommon." (Ibis, 1880, 338.) | "Corvus caledonicus". (Not C. caledonicus Gmelin, which is a Graucalus, or Artamides, family Campephagidae.) Labillardiere described in 1800 ("Relation du Voyage a la recherche de la Perouse, 11, p. 229, pl. 39 of Atlas) a "pie de la Nouvelle-Caledonie" which he called "Corvi caledonici", giving a very circumstantial account of it, with the dates and places in New Caledonia where he saw it. This species is Streptocitta albicollis, a bird of south Celebes, and not now known from elsewhere.|