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This species has been overlooked in Gray's Iland-Lisi, as also in the British Museum Catalogue. 

 It appears to resemble Glycyphila nn.dulata, Sparrm. but the measurements are considerably smaller. 



163,'^ Ptilotis carunculata. 



Wattled Creeper, Lath, Gen. Syn. I, 782; Spl. J, 121); G. Forst. Gotting. Magaz. 1780, 349?; Cool^s 



Last Voy. I, 334; G. For.L Cook^s dritte Enid. Heise I, 238. 



Certhia carunculata Gm. S. N. 1788 I 



472; Lath. Ind. Orn. 1790, 295; Bech.< Lath. Uebers. I, 598; lY, 186; ForsL Descr. An. 1844 165. 



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Foulehaio, VieUl. Ois. Dor. II, 131 t. 69. 



Creadion musicus id. N. Diet. XXXIX, 480. — Creadion tabuensis 



Foulehaio musicus RcM. Mcropinac 1851, 110, Taf. 497 f. 3550. — Meliphaga carunculata C 



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Strj)h. - — 



Gen. B. T, 122; Peah, U. S. Exp. 1848, 144, pi. 42 f. 2 pt. ; Ilaril. Wiegm. Arclu 1852, 108 pt. ; Gray^ B. 

 Trop. Is. 12; id. IL L. T, 157. — Myzantha carunculata HaHl, Wiegm. Arch. 1852, 130 pt. ; id, J. f. 0. 

 1854, 168 pt. — Ptilotis carunculata Cass. U. S. Exp. 1858, 173 pt.; F. et 11, Orn. Ccntralpol. 1867, 58 

 Taf. V, 2 (head) et I, 2 (egg); iid. P. Z. S. 1869, 545; iid. J. f. 0. 1870, 122, 125; Gniffo, t. e. 402, 404; 

 Finsch, ib. 1872, 32, 36; La,/. P. Z. S. 1875, 27, 32; WMtm.Ge, Ibis 1875, 438; Lay, ib. 1876, 391; id. P. z' 

 S. 1876, 491, 501; Finsch , ib. 1877, 724, 773; Nehrkom. J. f. 0. 1879, 398; Finsch, Toy. ChalL, B. 1881, 

 36, 45 pi. XII, 1; Gadow, Cat. B. 1884 IX, 225 pt. ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. 1889, 207. — „Eulehaio'S Tonga Is! 

 {Forst etc, — spelt in various manners). — „E-yow" (Peak), „Manu-yao'* (Orliffe)^ „Jao'* (WhUmoe) Samoa Is. 



Tofif/a Is.: Tonga-tabu and Eua (Forst etc.), Vavao fGrlife etc.), — Samoa Is. (Pcale): Upolu 

 (Graffe etc.), Tutuila (Mus, Brit.). — MuUiUa (Maegill.^ iJhall, Exp.), Lomaloma (Lay.) in the Fiji Is. 



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164/1^ Ptilotis procerior. 



Meliphaga carunculata Pcale, U. S. Exp. 1848, 144 pt. ; llartl. Wiegm. Arch. 1852, 103 pt. — 

 Myzantha carunculata llartl. ib. 130 pt.; id. J. f. 0. 1854, 1G8 pt. — Ptilotis carunculata ITarfL Ibis 1864 



232?; Cat. ITus. Godef. I; Gadow, Cat. B. 1884 IX, 225 pt. 



Ptilotis procerior F.eill. Orn. Ccntralpol. 



18G7, G2 Taf. V, 3, (Oval.); Gray, II. L. I, 157; F. ct IL J. f. 0. 1870, 122, 12G; Lay. P. Z. S. 1875, 27 

 (Oval., Viti L.), 431 (Wakaia) ; ^V/. Ibis 1876, 392 (Kandavu); liamsay, Pr. L. Soc. N. S. W. I, 70 (Tvand.); 

 Klcimchm. J. Mus. Godef. 1876 XII, 13; Fimch, P. Z. S. 1877, 732 pt. (Oval.,Yiti L. nee Yanua L.); id. 

 Voy. ChalL, B. 1881, 46 pi. XII, 2; Nehrkom, J. f. 0. 1870, 398; Tristr. Cat. Coll B. 1880, 208. 



„Barosissi", Ovalau (Grllff'e)'^ „Giekau" or „Kassewan" Fiji Is. (KUinschn .) , 



Ocalattf Viti Jjevu (Griij/'c, Lay.)^ Kandavtv^ Wakala (Lay.)^ (?) VafH Jjele (Finsch) in 



the Fiji Is. 



165.-'' Ptilotis procerior flavo-aurita. 



Ptilotis flavo-aurita Lay. Ibis 187B, 148; 



Ramsay, Pr. L. Soc. X. S. W. I, 



Tristr. Cat. Coll, H. 1880, 208. 



Ptilotis procerior 



, 70. - 



Ifottina 1(7. (Lay,, Puimsay). 



Ptilotis carunculata Gadoiv, Cat. B. JX, 225 pt 



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166.- Ptilotis procerior taviunensis. 



Ptilotis similis Lay. (nee Jacq. ct Pucher.) Ibis 1870, 148, 380 pt. (Taviuni) 



Gadotv, Cat. B. 1884 IX, 225 pt. 



Taviiiiilj Fiji Is. (Lay., Mis. Brit.). 



Ptilotis carunculata 



Ptilotis carunculata Gadow, 



167.* Ptilotis procerior buaensis. 



Ptilotis similis Lay. (ncc J.ctP.) Ibis 1876, 392 (Vauua Lcvu). — 

 Cat. B. 1884 IX, 225 pt. — Ptilotis buaensis Lay, M. S. 



Vamia JjCVtc and Mathtiata^ Fiji Is. .(Lay.). 



The fine series of 43 specimens in the British Museum which have boon united by Dr. Gadow 

 (1. c.) under the name P. carunculata will be found to belong moL'o properly to two species P. carunculata 

 Gm. and P. prbcerior F. etPL, and several distinct insular subspecies of the latter. P. carunculata Gm. is 

 represented in 18 specimens, of which 8 came from Samoa (7 Upolu, 1 Tutuila), 6 from Tonga (5 Tonga- 

 tabu, 1 Vavao) and 4 from Matuka in the Fiji Islands, — this small island and Lomaloma being the only 

 ones in that group from which P. carunculata has been recorded. These specimens arc in every respect 

 identical, save that in those from Samoa the olivaceous yellow of the underside is a shade lighter and fainter 



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