[Field guide] [1935-1940]
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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. share QUA-QUA.