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Section StuRNIFORMES. 
Family Sturnide. 
Subfamily Sturnine.® 
Genus Aplonis Gould, 1836. 
1. Aplonis cantor Müll. Mysol, Salawatti, Batanta, New 
Guinea, Louisiade Islands, Admirality groups of islands, New 
Britain, Duke of York Island, Solomon Islands. 
2. Aplonis feadensis Ramsay. Fead Island. 
3. Aplonis crassa Scl. Tenimber Islands, Larat, Timor Laut. 
4. Aplonis rufipennis Layard. New Hebrides. 
5. Aplonis atronitens Gray. Loyalty Islands. 
6. Aplonis striata Gmel. New Caledonia, Isle of Pines. 
7. Aplonis fuscus Gould. Norfolk Island and Lord Howe’s 
Island. 
8. Aplonis vitiensis Layard. Fiji Islands, Rotumah Island, 
(north of Fiji Islands). 
9. Aplonis tabuensis Gmel. Tonga Islands. 
10. Aplonis fortune Layard. Fortuna Island (between Fiji 
and Samoa Islands). 
11. Aplonis brunnescens Sharpe. Savage Island. 
12. Aplonis atrifusca Peale. Samoa Islands. 
13. Aplonis brevirostris Peale. Samoa Islands. 
14. Aplonis cinerascens Hartl. & Finsch. Rarotonga, Cook 
Islands. 
15. Aplonis inornata Sharpe. Raiatea, Society Islands. 
16. Aplonis kittlitzi Finsch. & Hartl. Carolines, Ponapé, 
Kuschai, Ruk and Lugunor. 
17. Aplonis pelzelni Finsch. Interior mountains of Ponapé. 
Family PLOCEIDÆ. 
Subfamily Viduinæ. 
Genus Erythrura Swainson, 1837. 
1. Erythrura prasina Sparrm. From Southern Tenasserim, 
down the Malayan Peninsula to Sumatra, Java and Borneo. 
“Sharpe, R. Bowdler. Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or Perching Birds in 
the collection of the Brit. Mus. Sturniformes. London, 1890, p. 125--137, p. 
380--387. Catalogue of the Birds in the Brit. Mus., Vol. XIII. London, 1890, 
