RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Duperrey, Voyage autour du monde. CUL-DAR205.3.55-56. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2025. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.3 contains notes on distribution of animals.

Duperrey, Louis Isidore. 1825-30. Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. 7 vols. Paris.


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Birds inhabiting islands of Otaheite & Society Archipelago

Zoologie of Coquilles Voyage

p 623. Cuculus taitenis (Sparrman) Borabora & Otaheite

p. 629. Psittacula. Kukhi. (Vigors Zoolog Joun No' 3. p 412 Borabora

do ― ari-manon (taitenus Gmelin) Psittacus Porphyriocephalus (Shaw) Otaheite

p. 630. ― cyaneus Sparman. Otaheite

643. Muscicapa Pomalia Less: or (maupitiensis of Garnot) Society Isle.

p. 648. Hirundo taitenis Less. — Society Isles & especially Otaheite

p 666. Sittella ototare. Less. Otaheite

p. 684 Todiramphus (Less) (subgenus of Halcyon). confined to Eastern Polynesia — sacer. (Alcedo sacra. Gmelin. Lath.) Otaheite & Borabora.  Latham says also New Zealand

687. Todiramphus divonis only Borabora

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Vol II p. 42. Gecko oceanicus
Otaheite & Borabora & other isles in Pacific

―― 49. Scincus cyanurus

Fish of Tahiti.  p 106

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Voyage of Coquille. II Vol

— Instances of fish with wide range.—

p. 100. Trygon Halgani Less.— T. lymna of Ruppel Coast of Red Sea — Waggiou & New Ireland

p 112. Balistes Conspicillum. (americanus of Gm. Lacapede) Common at Isle of France. New Ireland. Caroline islds.

p 133 Crenilabrus Chabrolii, Mauritius. Madagascar & Grand Ocean Equatorial

p. 186. Casio lunaris (Ehrenbergh) New Ireland & Red Sea

p 222. Holan centrum leo. at Borabora & Waggiou

p. 234. Serranus myriaster. (Ruppel pl XXVII fig. I ⸮Red Sea) Borabora & Mauritius

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Although M. Lesson in introduction talks about Mollusca with wide range, he does not give one instance in these described. systematically.—


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