This was eventually sorted out when the skin was identified as belonging to another enigmatic and extinct species – the Mauke Starling Aplonis mavornata.
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Turdidae are unknown from the Society Islands, while the Huahine Starling (Aplonis diluvialis) proves the former existence of Sturnidae.
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According to David Steadman it is possible that the 1774 painting by Georg Forster which depicts a mysterious bird from the island of Raiatea (formerly known as Ulieta) is not of a thrush or a honeyeater, as previously hypothesised, but of a relative of the Huahine Starling.