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Aneiteum: Inglis.
Buteonidae.
Urospiza (or Astur) fasciatus insularis (Sarasin).
(T.l., New Caledonia)
Aneiteum: Inglis; Layard.
Api: Schmeltz.
Faté; Schmeltz.
Circus approximans wolfi Gurney.
(T.l., New Caledonia.)
?Api: Layard.
Faté: Layard; Farquhar.
Eromanga: Mackinlay.
Falconidae.
Falco peregrinus, or subspecies.
Faté: Layard.
Loriidae.
Layard mentions a small, long-tailed parrot,
"with a red breast, and about the size of Lorius
solitarius of Fiji", from Espiritu Santo. George
Forster refers to parrots, large and beautiful
(black, red and yellow), from Tanna, but not known
to later travelers.
Trichoglossus massena Bonaparte.
New Hebrides: Brenchley.
Aneiteum: Layard; Inglis (in small flocks, in
cocoanuts.)
Eromanga: Mackinlay.
Faté: Layard; Richards; Mackinlay.
Malekula: Farquhar ("common in all the islands,
going generally in pairs.")
Tanna: Richards; Mackinlay.
Tongoa: Collett (records it).
Hypocharmosyna palmarum (Gmelin). (T.l., Tanna.)
New Hebrides: Brenchley.
Ambrym: Farquhar ("not very common anywhere"
on the islands).
Aneiteum: Brit. Mus. (record).
Api: Layard.
Elephant islet (of Espiritu Santo): Farquhar.
Eromanga: Ramsay (records it).
Espiritu Santo: Layard.
Faté: Layard (rare and very wary; feed on
cocoanut blossoms);Mackinlay;
Richards.