Taxobox name Polynesianrat image Pacific rat.jpg status LC status system iucn3.1 status ref ref name ... Polynesianrat range in Southeast Asia in red The Polynesianrat , or Pacific rat Rattus exulans , known to the M ori people M ori as kiore , is the third most widespread species of rat in the world behind the brown rat and black rat . The Polynesianrat originates in Southeast Asia, but like its ... in almost all areas within its distribution. Description The Polynesianrat is similar in appearance to other rats, such as the black rat and the brown rat. It has large, round ears, a pointed snout ... the ankle. The rest of its foot is pale. Distribution and habitat The Polynesianrat is widespread ... remains of the Polynesianrat in New Zealand were dated to over 2000 years old during the 1990s ... programs to eliminate the Polynesianrat on most offshore islands in its jurisdiction, and other conservation ... conservation revealed kiore pacific ratpolynesianrat lowres.pdf Kiore Pacific RatPolynesian ... 2006 title Kiore Pacific RatPolynesianRat publisher New Zealand Department of Conservation url ... pacific ratpolynesianrat lowres.pdf accessdate 2010 03 05 Murinae R. Category Old World rats and mice Category Rodents of India Rat, Polynesian Category Mammals of Bangladesh Rat, Polynesian Category Mammals of New Guinea Rat, Polynesian Category Mammals of Southeast Asia Rat, Polynesian Category Mammals of New Zealand Rat, Polynesian Category Mammals of Indonesia Rat, Polynesian Category Mammals of Oceania Rat, Polynesian Category Animals described in 1848 av br ... ru simple PolynesianRat fi Polynesianrotta sv Polynesisk r tta th uk ... with the predation pressure posed by the rat. This rat also may have played a role in the complete ... earlier than the accepted dates for Polynesian migrations to New Zealand, this finding has been overturned by later research showing the rat was introduced to both of the country s main islands around ... more details
Wiktionary PolynesianPolynesian is the adjective form of Polynesia . It may refer to Polynesians , ethnic groups Polynesian culture Polynesian mythology Polynesian languages Polynesian Leaders Group Polynesian Triangle Polynesian horse See also Polynesia Disney s Polynesian Resort ru disambig ... more details
Infobox Airline airline Polynesian Airlines logo Polynesian Airlines.png logo size 250px fleet size 2 destinations 2 IATA PH ICAO PAO callsign POLYNESIAN parent Government of Samoa company slogan Airline ... http www.polynesianairlines.com www.polynesianairlines.com Polynesian Airlines is the national airline ..., Apia, Samoa Apia . ref name OC It formerly flew all over the Pacific but with the establishment of Polynesian Blue by the government and Virgin Blue now Virgin Australia , Polynesian Airlines has restricted ... Polynesian Airlines accessed 25 November 2008 ref Its main base is Fagali i Airport , Apia. History Image PolyDash8.jpg thumb right A Polynesian Airlines Bombardier Dash 8 DHC 8 100 at Faleolo International Airport 2007 Polynesian Airlines no longer flies this aircraft. Its present ... relationships. International jet operations have been taken over by Polynesian Blue. The airline is wholly owned by the Government of Samoa, which also has a 49 holding in Polynesian Blue. ref ... http www.polynesianairlines.com images 25sep06 open.pdf Polynesian Airlines 2011 schedule retrieved ... 62 Our Company Polynesian Airlines website retrieved 25 May 2011 ref Earlier route network Polynesian ... Boeing 767 s an operation that bankrupted the airline. ref name Polynesian Airlines http www.polynesianairlines.com index.php?option com content&task view&id 5&Itemid 26 Polynesian Airlines July 2007 ref Accidents and incidents File Polynesian Airlines Boeing 737 800 Hutchinson.jpg thumb 300px ... members operating a Polynesian Airlines Douglas C 47 Skytrain Douglas R4D 5 aircraft registration ... crash. ref http aviation safety.net database record.php?id 19660511 1 Polynesian 1966 crash at the Aviation Safety Network ref On 13 January 1970 at 02 54 local time, Polynesian Airlines ... 2010 ref On 20 August 1988, a Polynesian Airlines Britten Norman Islander registered 5W FAF was damaged ... database record.php?id 19880820 0 Polynesian Airlines 1988 incident at the Aviation Safety ... more details
Image Polynesia triangle.png thumb 300px The Polynesian Triangle is a geographical region of the Pacific Ocean with Hawai okina i 1 , New Zealand Aotearoa 2 and Rapa Nui 3 at its corners. At the center is Tahiti 5 , with Samoa 4 to the west. The Polynesian Triangle is a region of the Pacific Ocean with three island groups at its corners Hawaii Hawai okina i , Easter Island Rapa Nui and New Zealand . It is often used as a simple way to define Polynesia . The many island cultures within this vast triangle speak Polynesian languages , which are classified by linguists as part of the Oceanic languages Oceanic subgroup of Malayo Polynesian languages Malayo Polynesian . They ultimately derive from the proto Austronesian language spoken in Southeast Asia 5,000 years ago. Polynesians also share similar cultural traditions, arts, religion, and sciences. Anthropologists believe that all modern Polynesian culture s descend from a single protoculture established in the South Pacific by migrant Malayo Polynesian people see also Lapita . Major Polynesian cultures include M ori people New Zealand M ori , Native Hawaiians , and the indigenous peoples of Easter Island , the Marquesas , Samoa S moa , American Samoa , French Polynesia , the Cook Islands and Tonga . There is also some evidence of Polynesian visits to some of the New Zealand Sub Antarctic Islands sub Antarctic islands to the south of New Zealand , which are outside of Polynesia proper. A shard of pottery has been found in the Antipodes ..., New Zealand Wellington , and there are also remains of a Polynesian settlement dating back to the 13th ... J., & Gerard R. O Regan The Polynesian Archaeology of the Subantarctic Islands An Initial Report ... numerous Polynesian outliers Polynesian Outlier islands outside the triangle in neighboring Melanesia and Micronesia. See also Ancient Hawaii Ancient Hawai okina i Polynesian Leaders Group References references External links http www.polynesia.com Polynesian Cultural Center http www.bishopmuseum.org ... more details
The Polynesian Panther Party was an organisation founded by New Zealand born Polynesia ns on June 16, 1971. ref name stuff cite web url http www.stuff.co.nz sunday news news 3806084 Polynesian Panthers make movie title Polynesian Panthers make movie author Bunting, Finbarr date June 13, 2010 work stuff.co.nz accessdate December 30, 2010 ref The party was explicitly influenced by the Black Panther Party American Black Panther Party , particularly Huey Newton s policy of black unity. They located the causes of M ori and Pacific Island oppression within the exploitative social relations of capitalism . Consequently, the Polynesian Panthers promoted a strategy of liberation based on the complete ... dawn raids under his administration. Early years The Polynesian Panther Movement was founded .... Headquarters were established in Ponsonby and the Polynesian Panthers began to organise activities ... early members of the Polynesian Panthers include Niuean composer, musician and activist Tigilau ... Panther members released a book to mark the 35th anniversary of the Polynesian Panther movement. ref cite web url http tvnz.co.nz content 752642 2483318.html title Polynesian Panthers mark 35 years ... September, 2009 the Polynesian Panthers held a special evening in Auckland to honour American Black ... University s Elam Art School. In 2010 a documentary film was released telling the story of the Polynesian Panthers. ref cite web url http paradiseishell.wordpress.com 2010 10 03 the polynesian panther party documentary title The Polynesian Panther Party documentary date October 3, 2010 work paradiseishell.wordpress.com ... Panthers Israel Further reading Polynesian Panthers Melani Anae, Lautofa Iuli and Leilani Burgoyne eds. Reed Publishing NZ ISBN 0 7900 1001 1 http www.salient.org.nz features how the polynesian panthers changed our world How the Polynesian Panthers changed our world salient.org.nz References Reflist ... Polynesian Panther Party.pdf Black Panther Party International Support Polynesian Panthers PDF Category ... more details
Infobox language family name Polynesian region Polynesia familycolor Austronesian fam2 Malayo Polynesian languages Malayo Polynesian fam3 Oceanic languages Oceanic fam4 Central Pacific languages Central Pacific fam5 West Fijian Polynesian languages West Fijian Polynesian ? protoname Proto Polynesian language Proto Polynesian map Fijian Polynesian.svg mapcaption The Central Pacific languages br Green is East Fijian, pink is West Fijian Rotuman, and ocher Polynesian not shown Rapanui language Rapa Nui The Polynesian languages are a language family spoken in geographical Polynesia as well as on a patchwork ... of that family. They fall into two branches Tongic languages Tongic and Nuclear Polynesian languages Nuclear Polynesian . Tongan language Tongan and Niuean constitute the Tongic branch and all others are part of the Nuclear Polynesian branch. Polynesians share many unique cultural traits which resulted ... as Hawaiki , the mythical homeland for some of the cultures. There are approximately forty Polynesian ... language Tongan , M ori language M ori and Hawaiian language Hawaiian . Because the Polynesian ... of Polynesian languages through the application of the comparative method of historical linguistics ... Tongic ref Pawley, Andrew, 1966, Polynesian languages a subgrouping based upon shared innovations. Journal of the Polynesian Society 75 39 64. ref Tongan Niuean Nuclear Polynesian ref Pawley, Andrew, 1966, Polynesian languages a subgrouping based upon shared innovations. Journal of the Polynesian Society 75 39 64. ref Pukapukan Futunic Outliers ref Pawley, Andrew, 1967, The relationships of Polynesian Outlier languages. Journal of the Polynesian Society 76 259 296. ref Ellicean ref Wilson, William H., 1985, Evidence for an Outlier source for the Proto Eastern Polynesian pronominal system. Oceanic Linguistics 24 85 133. ref , ref Marck, Jeff 2000 , Topics in Polynesian languages and culture history. Canberra Pacific Linguistics. ref Samoan East Polynesian Northern Outlier ref Wilson ... more details
, the society published the quarterly Journal of the Polynesian Society , which became the society s principal ... 1951 , and two catalogues of the Oldman Collection of M ori and Polynesian artifacts 2004 . Other ... published in a new, enhanced edition by Auckland University Press in association with the Polynesian Society. A history of the Society and its journal, M. P. K. Sorrenson s Manifest Duty The Polynesian .... References Brown, Dorothy compiler , Centennial Index 1892 1991. Memoir No. 50. Auckland, The Polynesian ..., M.P.K., Manifest Duty The Polynesians Society over 100 Years . Memoir No. 49. Auckland, The Polynesian ... Zealand http www.arts.auckland.ac.nz departments index.cfm?P 9144 Polynesian Society External ... journalsandassociations thepolynesiansociety Polynesian Society home http www.jps.auckland.ac.nz Journal of the Polynesian Society online issues Category Organisations based in New Zealand Category University of Auckland Category Historical societies Category Polynesian mythology Category Polynesian culture fr Polynesian Society ... more details
Polynesian outliers are a number of culturally Polynesian culture Polynesian islands which lie in geographic or political Melanesia and Micronesia . Based on archaeology archaeological and linguistics linguistic analysis, these islands are believed to have been colonized by seafaring Polynesia ns, mostly from the area of Tonga , Samoa and Tuvalu . Geography Polynesian outlier cultures are scattered across five countries of the Pacific in the Federated States of Micronesia , in Papua New Guinea , in the Solomon Islands , in Vanuatu , and in New Caledonia . The Federated States of Micronesia has two outlier cultures, Kapingamarangi and Nukuoro . Papua New Guinea has three Nuguria , Nukumanu , and Takuu . The country with the most outlier cultures is the Solomon Islands, with seven Anuta , Bellona , Ontong Java , Rennell , Sikaiana , Tikopia language Tikopia , and Vaeakau Taumako . Vanuatu has three Emae , Makata , Mele island Mele Erakoro, Eratapu stemming from Rarotonga, Aniwa and Futuna Island, Vanuatu Futuna . Futuna recognizes links with Tonga. The principal outlier culture in New Caledonia is on Ouv a in the Loyalty Islands , where the Fagauvea Fagauvea language is spoken. The links of these people are multiple. refnec They come from Tonga, Samoa, Rarotonga, and the Wallis and Futuna islands. There are groups of Polynesian descent dispersed on the east coast of New Caledonia ... coast at Bourail. There is a Polynesian group from Wallis islands on South Lifou and one on the coast .... It is a sub branch of the Nuclear Polynesian languages . In some of these islands, the outlier ... distinguish the Polynesian outlier islands of the group. Of the four Polynesian outliers considered ... Islands Vanuatu and of the Santa Cruz Islands and Polynesian Outliers Solomon Islands journal American ... ref References reflist External links http coombs.anu.edu.au Biblio biblio polynesian outlier.html A Polynesian outlier bibliography Polynesia Category Diasporas Category Polynesian outliers ... more details
to written The various Polynesian cultures each have distinct but related oral traditions, that is, legends ... of much of Governor George Grey s Polynesian Mythology , a book which to this day provides the de ... published in the Polynesian Society Journal of the Polynesian Society . See also div col cols 3 Ghosts in Polynesian culture Hawaiian mythology Hina goddess Mangarevan mythology M ori mythology Maui ... autocollapse Religion topics DEFAULTSORT Polynesian Mythology Category Polynesian mythology fr Litt rature ... more details
Primarysources date September 2010 Thoroughbred racehorse infobox horsename Polynesian image caption sire Unbreakable grandsire Sickle horse Sickle dam Black Polly damsire Polymelian sex Stallion horse Stallion foaled 1942 country United States colour Brown breeder Elmendorf Farm owner Gertrude T. Widener trainer Morris H. Dixon record 58 27 10 10 earnings 310,410 race Withers Stakes 1945 br Roseben Handicap 1946 br Toboggan Handicap 1946 br Scarsdale Handicap 1946 br Long Branch Stakes Long Branch Handicap 1947 br Camden Handicap 1947 br Oceanport Handicap 1947 br American Classic Races American Classic Race wins br Preakness Stakes 1945 awards American Champion Sprint Horse 1947 honours updated Polynesian March 8, 1942 1959 was an United States American Thoroughbred horse racing racehorse and Horse breeding Terminology sire . Background He was owned by Gertrude T. Widener , of the prominent ...&p sort YMD date D&s trackval GooglePM ref Racing Career 1944 two year old season At age two, Polynesian ... at age three, Polynesian won five of his next seven starts, one of which was a division of the Sagamore .... , instead competing in one mile Withers Stakes where he defeated Pavot horse Pavot . Polynesian then took ... http news.google.com newspapers?id bOkKAAAAIBAJ&sjid 0U4DAAAAIBAJ&pg 7160,6937924&dq polynesian preakness&hl en ref Because of its demanding one and a half miles, Polynesian was not entered in the third ... career Polynesian developed into a champion sprinter, winning a number of important sprint races in 1946 ... duty, Polynesian sired 37 stakes winners including one of the greatest horses in American racing history, Native Dancer . Some of Polynesian s offspring were Barbizon horse Barbizon 1954 1983 American ... Stakes and Saratoga Special Stakes etc. Damsire of Right Tack . Polynesian was also the damsire ... , Primonetta . At age seventeen, Polynesian died in 1959 from colic and was buried at Gallaher Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. References Reflist http www.pedigreequery.com polynesianPolynesian s pedigree ... more details
Taxobox name Polynesian Starling image Polynesian Starling.jpg status LC status system IUCN3.1 regnum Animalia phylum Chordata classis Aves ordo Passeriformes familia Sturnidae genus Aplonis species A. tabuensis binomial Aplonis tabuensis binomial authority Johann Friedrich Gmelin Gmelin , 1788 synonyms Image Polynesian starling matei jun08.JPG thumb 250px left Matei, Taveuni, Fiji Isles File AplonisBrunnescensSmit.jpg thumb 250px left Subspecies A. t. brunnescens , illustration by Joseph Smit , 1890 The Polynesian Starling Aplonis tabuensis is a species of starling of the family Sturnidae . ref cite web title IUCN Red List of Threatened Species url http www.iucnredlist.org accessdate 16 August 2009 ref It is found in American Samoa , Samoa , Fiji , Niue , Tonga , the Santa Cruz Islands , and Wallis and Futuna Islands . Its natural habitat s are subtropical or tropical dry forest s and tropical moist forests. Various subspecies exist throughout this wide range, some darker in coloration and some lighter. Its call is a raspy buzz or rattle. Diet is fruit and insects. ref cite book last Pratt, et al first H. Douglas title The Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific publisher Princeton University Press year 1987 isbn 0 691 02399 9 ref On islands where the Samoan Starling is present, the Polynesian Starling is less conspicuous and keeps to the forest, feeding on harder, less edible fruit. ref name Craig cite web first P. last Craig authorlink P. Craig title Natural History Guide to American Samoa url http www.botany.hawaii.edu basch uhnpscesu pdfs NatHistGuideAS09op.pdf publisher National Park of American Samoa, Department Marine and Wildlife Resources, American Samoa Community College accessdate 16 August 2009 ref References reflist commonscat Aplonis tabuensis wikispecies Aplonis tabuensis Category Aplonis Sturnidae stub es Aplonis tabuensis eo Polinezia sturno it Aplonis tabuensis pt Aplonis tabuensis sv Polynesisk stare to Misi vi S o Polynesia ... more details
Image hawaiiancanoe.jpg Polynesian voyaging canoe thumb 300px Polynesians settled the vast Polynesian triangle by 700AD image deleted on commons Polynesian culture refers to the indigenous peoples culture ... of Polynesian culture can be divided into four different historical eras Exploration and settlement ..., L. Roewer, W. Schiefenh vel, and M. Stoneking, Melanesian origin of Polynesian Y chromosomes, Current ... as Tonga and Samoa . In this region, the distinctive Polynesian culture developed. The early Polynesians ... and tides. Polynesian navigator s steered by the sun and the stars, and by careful observations ... on great Polynesian navigation Polynesian double hulled canoe s. Archaeological evidence indicates that by about 1280 AD, the Polynesians had settled the vast Polynesian triangle with its northern ... AD. There have been suggestions that Polynesian voyagers reached the South American mainland. Carbon ... was thought to date from between 1321 and 1407 AD. This initial report suggested a Polynesian pre ..., apparently pre Columbian, Chilean specimen and six pre European Polynesian specimens also cluster with the same European Indian subcontinental Southeast Asian sequences, providing no support for a Polynesian ... represent a genetic signature of an early Polynesian dispersal. Modeling of the potential marine ... motivation was to ease the demands of burgeoning populations. Polynesian mythology does not speak ... for the benefit of those who voyaged with them. While further influxes of immigrants from other Polynesian ... and colonization, until World War II 1595 to 1945 The first Polynesian islands visited by Europe ... with Polynesia, a great number of changes occurred within Polynesian culture, mostly as a result ... Polynesian languages . By the early 20th century, almost all of Polynesia was colonized or occupied ... Samoa Hawaii most of the Line Islands most of the Phoenix Islands All of the Polynesian outlier .... During World War II, a number of Polynesian islands played critical roles. The critical attack ... more details
1781 Polynesian navigation is a system of navigation used by Polynesia ns to make long voyages across ... of song. In order to locate directions at various times of day and year, Polynesian navigators memorize ..., the original methods of Polynesian Navigation are still taught in the Polynesian outlier ... Polynesia.png thumb A projection of the Polynesian triangle on the globe. Between about 3000 and 1000 ... Polynesian culture developed. Theories Pre Columbian contact with the Americas Main Pre Columbian trans oceanic contact File Polynesian navigation device showing directions of winds, waves and islands.jpg thumb right 200px Polynesian navigation device showing directions of winds, waves and islands, c. 1904 In the mid 20th century, Thor Heyerdahl proposed a new theory of Polynesian origins ... polynesian chicken.html title Chicken Bones Suggest Polynesians Found Americas Before Columbus ... 0703993104v2 Radiocarbon and DNA evidence for a pre Columbian introduction of Polynesian chickens to Chile ... of Sciences 10.1073 pnas.0703993104, 7 June 2007 ref Although this initial report suggested a Polynesian ..., apparently pre Columbian, Chilean specimen and six pre European Polynesian specimens also cluster with the same European Indian subcontinental Southeast Asian sequences, providing no support for a Polynesian ... represent a genetic signature of an early Polynesian dispersal. Modeling of the potential marine carbon ... design, which is used throughout the Polynesian Islands, but is unknown in North America &mdash ... derived from kumulaa au , the Polynesian word for the Sequoia sempervirens Redwood Sequoia sempervirens logs used in that construction. Polynesian contact with the prehispanic Mapuche culture in central ... plank canoe as used on Chiloe island, the curanto earth oven Polynesian umu common in southern Chile ... to get. There is some material evidence of Polynesian visits to some of the New Zealand Sub Antarctic ... of a Polynesian settlement dating back to the 13th century on Enderby Island in the Auckland Islands ... more details
Polynesian Spa is a developed geothermal spa facility in Rotorua , North Island , New Zealand . Local M ori people M ori acclaimed the therapeutic benefits of the water and bathed for centuries in the acidic pool Te Pupunitanga , now called Priest s Bath. ref Tangiwai, http www.nzetc.org tm scholarly tei Gov11 07Rail t1 body d24.html The Story of the Priest s Bath , The New Zealand Railways Magazine , Volume 11, Issue 7, October 1, 1936. Pictures of New Zealand Life. ref Europe an thermal bathing history at Polynesian Spa began in 1878 when a Catholic Priest named Father Mahoney bathed regularly in the thermal spring water of hand dug pools where Polynesian Spa is now located on the shores of Lake Rotorua . Over several months his arthritis was greatly alleviated, initiating an international reputation for the therapeutic properties of the hot mineral spring water. citation needed date November 2010 The first bath house on site, the Pavilion Bath House ref http www.rotoruamuseum.co.nz things to see and do taking the cure gallery a european tradition Pavillion Bath House , Rotorua, New Zealand. ref opened in 1882, followed by the Ward Baths ref http www.nzetc.org tm scholarly Gov12 10Rail fig Gov12 10Rail035a.html Ward Baths . ref in 1931. Early bath houses on the site were government run, the Pavilion Bath, the Duchess Bath, named for the Duchess of Cornwall and York who visited in 1901 and the Ward Baths, named for an early New Zealand Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward , ref http www.teara.govt.nz en 1966 ward sir joseph george pc gcmg bart 1 Sir Joseph Ward , New Zealand. ref who had a passion for thermal waters. In 1902 Mary MacKillop or Saint Mary of the Cross came to Rotorua to seek treatment in the therapeutic waters of the Duchess Bath. ref Katrina Brill, http www.abc.net.au ... to Polynesian Pools Limited and the spa is now known as the Polynesian Spa. See also Government Gardens References reflist External links http www.polynesianspa.co.nz Polynesian Spa website coord ... more details
Orphan date July 2011 Infobox album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Polynesian Fantasy Type Album Artist The Out Islanders Billy May and Charlie Barnet Cover Polynesian Fantasy.jpg Released 1961 Recorded Genre Exotica Length Label Capitol Records Capitol Producer Reviews Billboard Rating 4 4 Last album This album Next album Polynesian Fantasy is an album by The Out Islanders released in 1961. The Out Islanders was a one time combination of many of music industry s leading side men brought together by Billy May , who arranged and conducted the album, and Charlie Barnet , who played saxophone on the album. Overview Billy May got his start as an arranger and trumpter for Charlie Barnet s big band in the late 1930s. Later, May won a reputation as one of the music industry s top arrangers, working with Frank Sinatra , Nat King Cole , Peggy Lee , Rosemary Clooney and George Shearing on some of the most successful albums of the 1950s. ref cite book author Scott Yanow title Swing pages 387 388 publisher Miller Friedman year 2000 isbn 0879306009 ref ref cite book author John R. Tumpak title When Swing Was the Thing Personality Profiles of the Big Band Era publisher Marquette University Press year 2008 page 43 ref ref Cite book title The Music of Billy May A Discography author Jack Mirtle year 1998 publisher Greenwood Press isbn 9780313307393 ref In 1961, May teamed up with his former band leader for an album of Hawaiian music. May later wrote, Charlie and I planned it on a vacation in Hawaii. We called ourselves the The Kon Tikis. ref name SOP cite web title Billy May publisher spaceagepop.com url http www.spaceagepop.com may.htm ref When the album was released in 1961, the group was referred to as The Out Islanders. For the project, May served as arranger and conductor with Barnet ... experience in this Polynesian fantasy. ref name Liner cite album notes title Polynesian Fantasy ... wordless vocals References references DEFAULTSORT Polynesian Fantasy Category 1961 debut albums ... more details
Taxobox name Polynesian Triller image Lalage maculosa close up.jpg status LC status system IUCN3.1 regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis bird Aves ordo Passeriformes familia Campephagidae genus Lalage genus Lalage species L. maculosa binomial Lalage maculosa binomial authority Titian Peale Peale , 1848 The Polynesian Triller Lalage maculosa is a passerine bird belonging to the triller bird triller genus Lalage in the cuckoo shrike family Campephagidae. It has numerous subspecies distributed across the islands of the south west Pacific . It is 15 to 16 cm long. The plumage varies geographically some populations are contrastingly black and white while others have more grey or brown coloration. It is a noisy bird with a nasal, rasping call. The bird song song is short and high pitched. The breeding range extends through Fiji , Samoa , Tonga , Niue , Wallis and Futuna , Vanuatu and the Santa Cruz Islands . It occurs in a wide variety of habitats including man made habitats such as plantations and gardens. It feeds on insects such as caterpillar s and also feeds on fruit. The cup shaped nest is placed in the fork of a tree branch. One or two egg biology eggs are laid these are greenish with brown blotches. Image Polytriller abaca jun07.JPG thumb 250px left ssp pumila , Abaca, Viti Levu, Fiji Isles Image Polytriller savusavu jun08.JPG thumb 250px left ssp woodi , Savusavu,Vanua Levu, Fiji Isles Image Polytriller taveuni jun08.JPG thumb 250px left ssp woodi , Matei, Taveuni, Fiji Isles commonscat Lalage maculosa wikispecies Lalage maculosa References aut Bregulla , Heinrich L. 1992 Birds of Vanuatu , Anthony Nelson, Oswestry, England. aut Pratt, H. Douglas Bruner, Philip L. & Berrett, Delwyn G. 1987 , A Field Guide to the Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific , Princeton University Press, Chichester. Category Lalage ja sv Polynesisk drillf gel to Sikiviu zh ... more details
Taxobox name Polynesian sandpipers image Prosobonia leucoptera.jpg caption Prosobonia leucoptera regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis bird Aves ordo Charadriiformes familia Scolopacidae genus Prosobonia genus authority Charles Lucien Bonaparte Bonaparte , 1850 subdivision ranks Species subdivision See text. synonyms Aechmorhynchus small Elliott Coues Coues , 1874 small The two to four species of Polynesian sandpipers , the only members of the genus Prosobonia , are small wader wading bird s confined to remote Pacific islands of French Polynesia . Only one species now exists, and it is rare and little known. This bird is sometimes separated in the genus Aechmorhynchus , restricting the genus to the extinct southern forms. The Tuamotu Sandpiper , P. cancellata , is a unique short billed all brown wader previously found over a large area of the Pacific, but now confined to a few islands in the Tuamotu archipelago and still declining. Its decline appears to be due to human habitation encroachment and introduced mammals. It feeds on insects, but takes some vegetable material from its coastal haunts. It nests on the ground, and has a soft piping call. The extinct Tahitian Sandpiper , P. leucoptera of Tahiti was similar in size and shape to P. cancellata . It had brown upperparts, reddish underparts, a white wingbar, and some white on the face and throat. It became extinct in the 19th century, and little is known of it. There was a similar bird on Moorea which differed in some minor details from P. leucoptera , notably the larger extent of white in the wing, and has been described as White winged Sandpiper P. ellisi . However, although two species are generally listed, the question whether they actually did constitute separate species is probably unresolvable as only a single specimen of it exists today, apart from some contemporary paintings. From Mangaia in the Cook Islands , Ua Huka in the Marquesas , and the remote South Pacific Henderson Island Pitcairn Islands ... more details
with the brown, black or PolynesianRatPolynesianrat . Wild rodents, including rats .... When feasting, the Polynesian people of Rapa Nui could eat rat meat, but the king was not allowed ... PolynesianRat Rattus exulans Fiji and most Polynesian islands, New Zealand , Easter Island ...About the genus Rattus pet rats Fancy rat other uses Rat disambiguation pp semi protected small yes Taxobox ... image caption The common brown rat Rattus norvegicus regnum Animal ia phylum Chordata classis Mammal ... Rat Species of rats 64 species synonyms Stenomys Thomas, 1910 Rats are various medium sized, long tailed ... , the most important of which to humans are the black rat , Rattus rattus , and the brown rat , Rattus ... family is very large and complex, and the common terms rat and mouse are not taxonomy taxonomically ... rat , while if it is small, the name includes the term mouse . Scientifically, the terms are not confined to members of the Rattus and Mus genus Mus genera, for example, the pack rat and cotton mouse . Species and description The best known rat species are the black rat Rattus rattus and the brown rat ... weigh over convert 500 g lb in the wild. The term rat is also used in the names of other small mammals ... called kangaroo rats , and others. Rats such as the bandicoot rat Bandicota bengalensis are murine ... thumb A rat in a city street File Nepal.rat.JPG thumb Statue of a rat in Patan Nepal The common species .... ref cite journal author Meerburg BG, Singleton GR, Leirs H title The Year of the Rat ends time to fight ... to have been caused by the micro organism Yersinia pestis , carried by the tropical rat flea Xenopsylla ... rat depends on which species is being discussed, but many only live about a year due to predation. The black ... in the forests of Asia. Pets main Fancy rat File Rat shoulder.jpg thumb 150px A domesticated rat Specially ... variants of the species brown rat , but black rat s and giant pouched rat s are also known to be kept ... selected behaviors. Subjects for scientific research main Laboratory rat File Rat diabetic.jpg ... more details
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Infobox language family name Nuclear Polynesian region Polynesia familycolor Austronesian fam2 Malayo Polynesian languages Malayo Polynesian fam3 Oceanic languages Oceanic fam4 Polynesian languages Polynesian child1 Eastern Polynesian languages Eastern Polynesian child2 Samoic languages Samoic Image PPnMajorGroups.png right Major subgroups of Polynesian Nuclear Polynesian refers to those languages comprising the Samoic languages Samoic and the Eastern Polynesian languages Eastern Polynesian branches of the Polynesian languages Polynesian group of Austronesian languages . The Eastern Polynesian group comprises two major subgroups Rapa Nui language Rapa Nui , spoken on Easter Island , and Central Eastern Oceanic languages Central Eastern , which is itself composed of Rapan language Rapan , and the Marquesic languages Marquesic and Tahitic languages . Nuclear Polynesian is differentiated, among Polynesian languages, by its distinguishing characteristics from the Tongic languages spoken in most of Tonga and in Niue . Components Eastern Polynesian languages Eastern Polynesian Central Eastern Polynesian languages Central Eastern Polynesian Rapan language Rapa Marquesic languages Hawaiian language Hawaiian Marquesan language Marquesan North Marquesan language Northern South Marquesan language Southern Mangarevan language Mangerevan Tahitic languages Austral language Austral Maori language Maori Tuamotuan language Tuamotuan Penrhyn language Penrhyn Rarotongan language Rarotongan Rakahanga Manihiki language Rakahanga Manihiki Tahitian language Tahitian Rapa Nui language Rapa Nui Samoic languages Samoic East Uvean Niuafo ou languages Ellicean languages Futunic languages Pukapukan language Pukapuka Samoan language Samoan Tokelauan language Tokelauan Category Nuclear Polynesian languages au lang stub la Nucleares Linguae Polynesiae ... more details
The Proto Malayo Polynesian language PMP is the linguistic reconstruction reconstructed ancestor of the Malayo Polynesian languages , which is by far the largest branch of the Austronesian languages Austronesian language family . Proto Malayo Polynesian is ancestral to all Austronesian languages spoken outside Taiwan , with the possible exception of the Tai Kadai languages if the hypothesis that Tai Kadai is descended from proto Austronesian but not from Malayo Polynesian is true see Austro Tai languages . See also Proto Austronesian language External links http language.psy.auckland.ac.nz austronesian language.php?id 269 ABVD Proto Malayo Polynesian http www.webcitation.org query?url http www.geocities.com Tokyo 8908 firemount austroframes.html&date 2009 10 25 11 31 10 A Comparison of Austronesian Languages WebCite query result Category Austronesian languages Category Proto languages Malayo Polynesian Au lang stub ... more details
Infobox language family name Eastern Malayo Polynesian region The Moluccas and the Pacific familycolor Austronesian fam2 Paiwanic languages Paiwanic ? fam3 Malayo Polynesian languages Malayo Polynesian MP fam4 Nuclear Malayo Polynesian languages Nuclear MP fam5 Central Eastern Malayo Polynesian languages Central Eastern child1 Halmahera Cenderawasih languages Halmahera Cenderawasih child2 Oceanic languages Oceanic iso5 pqe The Eastern Malayo Polynesian EMP languages form a putative subgroup of the Malayo Polynesian languages consisting of over 500 language s. Their relationship is not supported by much linguistic data per Malcolm Ross , there is essentially no evidence that the Halmahera Cenderawasih South Halmahera West New Guinea and Oceanic families form an exclusive clade within Malayo Polynesian, while a 2008 analysis of the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database gives the proposal a confidence level of only 58 . ref http language.psy.auckland.ac.nz austronesian research.php Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database ref References Reflist Fay Wouk and Malcolm Ross ed. , The history and typology of western Austronesian voice systems. Australian National University, 2002. K. Alexander Adelaar and Nikolaus Himmelmann, The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar. Routledge, 2005. Category Eastern Malayo Polynesian languages es Lenguas malayo polinesias orientales hr Isto ni malajsko polinezijski jezici ru ... more details
Infobox language family name Nuclear Malayo Polynesian region South East Asia and the Pacific familycolor Austronesian fam2 Paiwanic languages Paiwanic ? fam3 Malayo Polynesian languages Malayo Polynesian ... child2 Central Eastern Malayo Polynesian languages Central Eastern branches map Nuclear Malayo Polynesian.svg mapcaption The principal branches of the Nuclear Malayo Polynesian languages legend b33b49 Sunda Sulawesi Chamorro language Chamorro off map legend a49800 Central Malayo Polynesian legend 85277f Eastern Malayo Polynesian legend ff60c5 Oceanic vast majority off map The Nuclear Malayo Polynesian languages are a branch of the Austronesian languages Austronesian family , proposed by Wouk ... Nuclear family nuclear because they are the conceptual core of the Malayo Polynesian family, including both Malay and Polynesian. Nuclear Malayo Polynesian is found throughout Indonesia , apart ... Malayo Polynesian languages are those that have abandoned the Austronesian alignment inherited from proto Malayo Polynesian syntax . These include the traditional geographic groupings of Central Malayo Polynesian languages Central Malayo Polynesian , Eastern Malayo Polynesian languages Eastern Malayo Polynesian , and part of Western Malayo Polynesian languages Western Malayo Polynesian , a part Wouk and Ross call Inner Western Malayo Polynesian languages Inner Western Malayo Polynesian . Inner Western Malayo Polynesian Sunda Sulawesi is therefore defined negatively, those languages of Greater Sunda Islands Sunda and Sulawesi not included in Central Eastern Malayo Polynesian languages Central Eastern Malayo Polynesian . Central Eastern is an language area areal group, divergent from the rest of Malayo Polynesian due to non Austronesian Papuan languages Papuan substratum substrata rather than due to any genealogical relationship. Languages Nuclear Malayo Polynesian is composed of a large ... support for the syntactically defined Nuclear Malayo Polynesian family, with a 75 confidence, within ... more details
The Western Malayo Polynesian languages , also known as the Hesperonesian languages , are those Malayo Polynesian languages which are not in the Central Eastern Malayo Polynesian languages Central Eastern branch. Since there are no features which define these languages positively as a group, recent classifications have abandoned it. In Wouk & Ross some of its languages have been split off in an Outer group as a primary branch of Malayo Polynesian, and the rest retained in an Inner group within a Nuclear Malayo Polynesian languages Nuclear Malayo Polynesian branch. These Inner and Outer groups may also be called the Borneo Philippine languages and Sunda Sulawesi languages , after their geographic spread. References refbegin Fay Wouk and Malcolm Ross ed. , The history and typology of western Austronesian voice systems. Australian National University. 2002. Adelaar, Alexander, The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar A Historical Perspective , The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar, pp. 1 42, Routledge Language Family Series, Londres Routledge, 2005. ISBN 0 7007 1286 0 refend DEFAULTSORT Western Malayo Polynesian Languages Category Malayo Polynesian languages es Lenguas malayo polinesias occidentales fr Langues malayo polyn siennes occidentales it Lingue maleo polinesiane occidentali fi L nsi malaiji polynesialaiset kielet sv V stliga malajo polynesiska spr k ... more details
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