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List of Birds found on Lord Howe's Isld. t. 



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30. Anous cinereus, Gould # sv^ 



31. Anous stolidus. Lath # * 



32. Onyclioprion fuliginosa, Gmel # * 



33. Phfeton phoenicurus, Gml * * 



34. Procellaria sp .v; * * 



On consulting the table it will be seen tbat, as I remarked 

 before, 9 species only are peculiar to the Island ; and when we 

 know more about the adjacent islands, Norfolk and Philipp 

 Islands, it will probably be found that some of these inhabit also 

 those Islands. Of the New Zealand region, although there is 

 only one species represented, of the important New Zealand 

 genera Notornis and Ocydromus, these, being birds of most limited 

 flight form a very important link. Some stress might be laid on 

 the occurrence of an Aplonis {A. fusctis), for it is only in the 

 most northern part of Australia that the allied genus — Calornis 

 is found, and that species (C. metalica) has evidently migrated 

 from the Malayan region, so that the genus Aplonis can hardly 

 be said to be Australian, the great stronghold of the genus being 

 the Fiji, and New Hebrides Islands, but it is also found on the 

 Fead Islands, [Aplonis feadensis), the Solomons and-South East 

 portion of New Gruinea [A. Cantoroides) besides other islands in 

 the Pacific. 



The genus Merula is found throughout most of the islands of 

 the Pacific, each group having one or more peculiar species or 

 varieties, it extends from New Caledonia over the Fiji, Sandwich 

 and New Hebrides Islands, and recently I have received infor- 

 mation of a Jferula inhabiting the Solomon Islands. It is some- 

 what remarkable that while the genus Aferula is found so close 

 to Australia as on Lord Howe's Island, no species of the genus 

 has been recorded from the mainland, and from the close affinity 



