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Transcription
Large black crow like bird.
large bill.
Coracina caledonica lifuensis Tristram
Range.- Lifu
Description.- Similar to thilenii
of the northern New Hebrides, but
apparently darker.
Habitat.- Forest
Food.- Caterpillars, other insects (?),
locusts.
Collecting.- A very good series.
The New Hebrides form, thilenii was
described as differing from caledonica
by smaller size, which is exactly
the principal character of lifuensis
compared with caledonica. Possibly
thilenii is a synonym of lifuensis,
but a series from Lifu must be
compared with our extensive material
from the New Hebrides. Immature
birds apparently the gray colour
of the adults. Immatures have more
pointed tails.
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