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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.)