General notes on South Pacific island groups
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-17- -174- Muscicapidae. Rhipidura spilodera Gray. (T.l., Vanua Lava.) Vanua Lava: Brenchley. Myiagra caledonica melanura Gray. Vanua Lava: Brenchley. Campephagidae. Lalage banksiana Gray. (T.l., Vanua Lava.) Vanua Lava: Brenchley. See reference to this species under New Hebrides. Meliphagidae. Gliciphila notabilis Sharpe. (T.l., Vanua Lave.) Vanua Lava: Farquhar (1 pair). Sharpe says this appears to replace G. flavotincta on Vanua Lava, and that its nearest ally "seems to be G. fasciata of New Caledonia." 17b. Santa Cruz Islands. Birds. Treronidae. Ptilinopus greyi "Gray" Bonaparte. (T.l., Vanikoro). Santa Cruz; Mus. Liverpool. Vanikoro: 'Astrolabe'. Globicera pacifica, subspecies. Vanikoro: 'Astrolabe'. Scolopacidae. Heteroscelus incanus (Gmelin). Santa Cruz: Mus. Liverpool. Micropodidae. Collocalia fuciphaga vanikorensis (Quoy & Gaimard). (T.l., Vanikoro.) Vanikoro: Quoy & Gaimard. Alcedinidae.