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PERMIT me to add to my friend the Rev. S. J. Whitmee's testimony of the papau being eaten by birds in the Samoan Islands, that it is here (New Caledonia) a favourite foods of the “white eye” (Zosterops), and in the Loyalty Islands was used as the only bait to attract these birds, of which dozens were brought me—of the three known species of that genus, which inhabit that group (see my letters to Field newspaper) all caught by the boys through its means. If my memory serves me rightly, I have seen the papau in Mauritius eaten by a species of Zosterops.
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LAYARD, E. The Papau. Nature 21, 201 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021201c0
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