General notes on South Pacific island groups
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-2- -160- Ptilinopus greyi "Gray" Bonaparte. (T.l., Vanikoro, Sta Cruz group.) Aneiteum: Layard. Aniwa: Layard; Inglis. ?Api: Layard; Tristam (records it). Eromanga: Gray (records it); Inglis. Espiritu Santo: Farquhar. Faté: Mus. Liverpool; Layard; Richards; Farquhar; Malekula: Layard; Farquhar. (Mackinlay. Tanna: MacGillivray. Tongoa: Collett (records it). Sylphitreron tannensis (Latham). (T.l., Tanna.) Ambrym: Layard. Eromanga: Layard; Farquhar. Espiritu Santo (islet of Tangoa): Farquhar. Faté: Layard; Mackinlay. Malekula: Corrie. Tanna: Forster; Layard. Tongoa: Collett (records it). Sharpe finds specimens from Eromanga and Espiritu Santo (Tangoa) differ from those in the Brit.Mus. from other ids. in the New Hebrides. Globicera pacifica, subspecies. Ambrym: Mus. Liverpool. Aneiteum: Gray (records it). Api: Layard; 'Challenger'. Eromanga: Layard; Inglis; Robertson. Espiritu Santo: Layard. Faté: Layard. Malekula: Layard; Farquhar. Malo: Layard: Tanna: Gray (records it). Tongoa: Collett (records it). Sharpe thinks Samoan and Tongan birds different from those of the New Hebrides and Louisiade groups and that the name G. tarralii Bp. may be available for the bird of the New Hebrides, as this has Vanikoro as its type locality. Globicera farquhari Sharpe (T.l., Eromanga.) Eromanga: Farquhar ("very common"). Based on one female from Polonia Bay, Eromanga, taken May 28, 1899. Sharpe says it is allied to G. pacifica, but much darker, etc., "with dark leaden-grey under wing- -coverts." Columbidae. Janthoenas leopoldi Tristram. (T.l., Faté.)