1854.] 



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and tibiae reddish chestnut color: short feathers of the tarsi cinereous. Inferior 

 coverts of the wing light cinereous. Bill dark ; feet light? 



Dimensions. Total length (of skin) about 15^ inches ; wing 8 ; tail 5 inches. 



Hab. Northern Australia? Specimen in Mus. Acad. Philada. 



Obs. The only specimen of this splendid bird that we have ever seen is that 

 above described, and which is one of the many highly valuable contributions to the 

 Museum of the Academy, made by Mr. Edward Wilson. It was obtained by 

 him in Europe, and bears a label only indicating the locality, as we have given 

 it above. It may be the species figured in Voy. Uranie, and regarded by Quoy 

 and Gaimard as Carpophaga cenea. , 



16. Carpophaga nov,ezealandi/, (Gmelin.) Knip and Prev. Pig. ii. pi. 1. 

 Columba novae zealandiae, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 773 (1788.) 



Columba zealandica et spadicea, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 603 and Supp. p. 60. 



Columba argetraea, Forst. Desc. An. p. 80, (1844.) 



No frontal knob ; head, neck, breast and upper parts of the body, wings and 

 tail, beautiful metallic green, changing to golden and cupreous in some lights. 

 Under parts of the body and under tail and wing coverts white, the latter (under 

 wing coverts) tinged with ashy. 



Numerous specimens of this magnificent Pigeon are in the Coll. Acad., from 

 various localities. I can detect no specific difference between those from 

 New Zealand and from elsewhere. 



17. Carpophaga Forsterii, (Prevost.) Knip and Prevost's Pigeons, iii.pl. 47. 

 Columba Forsterii, Prevost. Knip and Prevost's Pigeons, iii. p. 87 (1834 ?) 

 Carpophaga poliocephala. G. R. Gray, Genera of Birds, ii. pi. 119 ? 



Head ashy white, paler on the throat ; under tail coverts chestnut. Entire 

 upper parts, neck before and breast, fine metallic green, changing to golden and 

 cupreous on the neck behind and back; abdomen white tinged with rufous ; tail 

 above metallic green, with a wide transverse band of ashy white. 



Of this splendid species I have doubts respecting the correct name, Columba 

 Forsterii having been previously applied to other birds of this famil)*. It is, 

 however, very probably Carpophaga poliocephala, as cited above. 



Two specimens in the Coll. Acad, are from the Celebes. 



18. Carpophaga magnifica (Temm.) PI. Col. 163. Knip and Prev. Pig. iii.pl. 

 25. Gould B. of Aust. v. pi. 58. 



Columba magnifica, Temm. Linn. Trans, xiii. p. 125. 



Head pale cinereous; entire upper parts of the body, wings and tail green, 

 tinged with yellow on the back; greater wing coverts with large spots of yellow, 

 wide medial portion of the under parts fine dark purple ; ventral region and under 

 tail coverts dark gamboge yellow. Under wing coverts yellow. 



Numerous specimens of this beautiful species are in the Coll. Acad, and of 

 the Ex. Exp., all of which are from Australia. 



19. Carpophaga pcella, (Lesson.) Knip and Prev. Pigeons, iii. pi. 1. 

 Columba puella, Less. Bullet. Sci. Nat. 1827, p. 400. Voy. Coquille Zool. 



i. p. 711. 



Carpophaga assimilis, Gould. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1850, p. 201. 



Similar to the preceding (C magnifica) in colors, but is much smaller in size. 

 Head not so clear cinereous; back less tinged with yellow. 



Numerous specimens from Australia are in the Coll. Acad. 



20. Carpophaga luctuosa, (Temm.) PI. Col. 247. Gould B. of Aust. v. pi. 



60. Knip and Prev. Pig. iii. pi. 40. 



Columba luctuosa, Temm. PI. Col. iv. p. (liv. 42.) 



No frontal knob. Entire plumage of the head and body white, in some speci- 

 mens with a faint yellowish cast. Tail white, with a wide terminal band of 

 black tinged with ashy; quills ashy black, lighter on the secondaries, which are 

 edged with pure black ; tertiaries ashy black. Plumage of the ventral region 

 tipped with black. 



Numerous specimens in Coll. Acad, from Australia. 



