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Inglis. In his Catalogue (1889, p. 16) he identifies
the bird as "Uropygialis" (baueri), and gives the local-
ity as "Aneityum".
Heteroscelus incanus (Gmelin).
Aneiteum: Macgillivray; Layard.
Charadriidae.
Pluvialis dominicus fulvus (Gmelin).
----: Gray (records it); Layard.
Aneiteum: Macgillivray; Layard; Inglis.
Aniwa: R. Paton; Inglis ("abundant on the shore"
of this and preceding ids.).
Espiritu Santo: Farquhar.
Aphrizidae.
Arenaria interpres oahuensis (Bloxham).
(T.l., Hawaiian Ids.)
New Hebrides: Gray (records it).
Aneiteum: Macgillivray.
Ardeidae.
Demigretta sacra, subspecies.
Aneiteum: Macgillivray; Freeman; Inglis.
Malekula: Farquhar ("common").
Tristram says these are smaller than the Samoan bird,
and he thinks there are two forms, a larger and a smaller,
that occur in the Pacific, though they do not seem to be
found together in any one locality.
(Nycticorax caledonicus. Salvadori records this from
the New Hebrides, but in error for New Britain.-- See
Wiglesworth, Aves Polynesiae, p. 69.)
Butorides javanica stagnatilis (Gould).
(T.l., Australia.)
Malekula: Farquhar ("common")
Anatidae.
Anas superciliosa, subspecies.
Aneiteum: Tristram (records it).
Api: "wild ducks" are reported from here.
Espiritu Santo: Layard.
Phaethontidae.
Phaethon rubricaudus Boddart. (T.l., Mauritius.)