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Eromanga: Robertson.
Faté: Farquhar.
Tanna: Layard; Richards.
Erythura regia (Sclater). (T.l., Api.)
Api: Kenneth Howard (found it in interior of id.)
Tongoa: Collett (records it).
Erythura serena (Sclater). (T.l., Aneiteum.)
Aneiteum: Macgillivray.
?Faté: Layard. (Possibly this record belongs
under E. cyanofrons.)
"Eulabetidae."
Aplonis rufinpennis Layard. (T.l., Faté).
Ambrym: Mus. Liverpool; Farquhar.
Espíritu Santo: Mus. Liverpool; Farquhar.
Faté: Layard. The type of this species is in the
Liverpool Museum, and was sent from Faté "in alcohol".
Sharpe borrowed the specimen and decided that Espiritu
Santo and Ambrym birds were the same--"Evidently
identical"; he also thought the same species was
figured in the Voy. 'Astrolabe' (pl. 9, fig. l) as
Lamprotornis zelandica.
17a. Banks Islands. Birds.
Megapodidae.
Megapodius brazieri Sclater. (T.l., Vanua Lava.)
Vanua Lava: Brazier. This species was based on
an egg from John Brazier.
Megapodius layardi Tristram.
Vanua Lava: Brenchlay. Gray records eggs obtain-
ed by Brenchley. Possibly these are the same as
Megapodius brazieri.
Loriidae.
Trichoglossus massena Bonaparte.
Vanua Lava: Brenchley.
Hypocharmosyna palmarum (Gmelin).
Vanua Lava: Farquhar.