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Genus RAROTONGA Math. 
Rarotonga Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. xlv. p. 93, April 25th, 
1925. Type (by original designation): Monarches dimidiata 
H. & F. 
Rarotonga dimidiata (H. & F.). (4-232.) 
Cook Island Ply-eater. 
Monarches dimidiata Hartlaub & Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1871, 
p. 28 : Rarotonga, Cook Islands. 
Distr. —Rarotonga Island, Cook Islands, and Samoa. 
Genus HAPLORNIS Wetm. 
Haplornis Wetmore, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. vol. lxiii. No. 4, p. 203, 
Aug. 1919. Type (by monotypy): Rhipidura lessoni Gray. 
Replaces Muscylva Lesson, Traite d’Orn. p. 385,1830. Type (by 
subsequent designation, Wetmore, as above, p. 203) : Muscicapa 
ccerulea Gm. Muscylva thus becomes a synonym of Hypothy- 
mis Boie, 1826. 
Haplornis lessoni (Gray). (4-233.) Cinereous Fly-catcher. 
Rhipidum lessoni Gray, Gen. Birds, p. 258, 1846 : Viti Levu, Fiji. 
Monarch a cinereus Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped. vol. viii. p. 101, Oct. 1848 : Bakr, 
Viti Levu, Fiji. (Fig. Pole Sud, xi. tig. 2 ; Centralpolyn. pi. 7. fig. 5.) 
Distr. —Viti Levu, Kandava, Fiji. 
Genus MIRO Lesson. 
Miro Lesson, Traite d’Orn. p. 389, (about Dec. 1st) 1830. Type (by 
monotypy) : Muscicapa longipes Lesson. 
Miro australis (Sparrm.). New Zealand Robin. 
Distr .—New Zealand. 
Miro australis australis (Sparrm.). (4-235.) 
Turdus australis Sparrman, Museum Carlson, pt. 3, No. 69, 1788: 
Dusky Sound, South Island. (Fig. Buller, 2nd ed. pi. 5; Ereb. 
& Terr. pi. 6. fig. 2.) 
Turdus alhifrons Gmelin, Syat. Nat. vol. i. pt. ii. p. 822, April 20th, 1789: 
Dusky Sound, South Island. 
Turdus ochrotarsus Forster, Descr. Anim. ed. Licht. p. 82, (pref. Jan. 1st) 1844 : 
Dusky Sound, South Island. 
Distr. —New Zealand, South Island (Dusky Sound). 
Miro australis bulleri Buller. 
Miro bulleri Buller, Suppl. Birds New Zeal. vol. ii. p. 123, July 1906 
(ex Sharpe MS.) : Karamea Saddle, South Island. 
Distr. —New Zealand, South Island (Alpine form). 
