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28. Uvea or Wallis Island. Additional note on Birds.
T. H. Hood, in "Notes of a Cruise in H.M.S. "Fawn" in the Western Pacific in the Year 1862" (Edinburgh, 1863, 8vo), says of birds on Wallis Island: "No sound is heard in these quiet woods but the cooing of numbers of pigeons and doves of a beautiful plumage". (p. 171.)
At a lake here, he says there were tropic birds and "wild-ducks." (p. 172.)
The tropic birds and wild ducks are additional to the list for this island.
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