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Columba 2>atiii>usan Quuy & Gaim., Vny. Uraiiie, Zuul. pi. 30 (1824). 



Columha xanlhura auct. aliquot, nee Forst. 



Columba enjthropkra Hartl. (ner Gmel. !), Jmirn.f. Orn. 1854. p. 167. 



Phlcgoenas enjthropleni Rchb., Tuxhen I. p. 41 ; Oust., Naturalistt 1889. p. 261. 



Phhgoemis pampusan Wiglesw., Aves PoIi/ms. p. 55 ; Salvad., Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXI. p. 602. (Teste 



Reichenow.) 

 Phleijocnus virgo Rchw., Jmirn.f. Orn. 1885. p. 110. 

 Phlogoenas pampuxan, Oustalet, op. cit. p. 224. 



Not being able to find any differences between Dr. Eeiclienow's diagnosis of 

 P. virgo and the Guam specimens, I sent some of tlie latter to that author, who 

 kindly compared them with his bird and informed me that some of them were 

 identical with his type. This is surprising, as the Pelew Islands are inhabited by 

 another not very distantly related species (P. cainfrom), and the island of Yap, 

 between the Pelew and the Marianne Islands, is the home of another (P. yajMnsis). 

 I can very well understand that Dr. Reichenow, not having a large series of 

 1'. jminpusan before him, believed the rusty isabelline colour of the occiput and 

 hind-neck to be a differentiating character; but that three very conspicuous species — 

 i.e. P. pampusan., Rliipulara waidne, and CorvHS kaharyi — were found on the Pelew 

 Islands, while Finsch in his work on the birds of that group in the Journal of the. 

 Museum Godeffroy had not mentioned them, and that they inhabited both the Pelew 

 and Marianne Islands, lohile closel// allied forms were found on the Pelew Islands 

 as well as on Yap and the Marianne Islands, is difficult to understand. It will be 

 seen from this article that all the three sjjecies described by Reichenow (I.e.) from 

 the Pelew Islands have otherwise only been found on Guam, and I am therefore 

 inclined to believe that these three species came really from Guam, and were labelled 

 Pelew Islands by some mistake. 



Our specimens agree perfectly with Salvadori's description in the Catalogue of 

 Birds, but the hind-neck and occiput are sometimes deep rusty rufous, sometimes 

 only very pale rusty buff, and in some nearly black, the latter younger examples. 

 Younger females have pale edges to the feathers of the upperside. 



We have it from Guam and Saipan. Local name of the male " Apaca," of the 

 female "Paloma knno." Iris cj Ridgw. III. 2 (clove-brown), ? II. 3 (blackish 

 slate); feet 6 and ? light VIII. 6 (light Indian purple); bill II. 5 (slate-grey). 



19. Excalfactoria sinensis (Gm.) (not m Oustalet). 



Guam, introduced ! Local name : " Bishibishi." The collectors say : " It is 

 reported that this bird was introduced last year from Manila by a man named Henry, 

 but as it is found in different places on the island this statement may prove to be 

 incorrect." It was probably introduced several times before. 



(Oustalet mentions also Gallus hankiva as having been shot in Saipan by Mons. 

 Marche. It was no doubt introduced, as also Oustalet admits.) 



20. Megapodius laperouse Quoy & Gaim. (Oust. II. p. 26). 



Five skins and a chick in first plumage from Saipan, and one from Guam. The 

 chick was found on July ITth. 



Local name Saipan : " Sachigat." BOl, Itidgw. VI. 10 (gamboge-yellow), 



