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102. Phlegoenas margaritae (D'Alk & Salvad.). 



Onr series of this most beautiful bird is not very good. We have at jiresent 

 only the following 12 specimens : — 



1 c?, 1 ?, (?) 1 jnv. from Dutch New Guinea bought from plumassiers. 



1 ? (?) Kafu (from Brnijn's hunters). 



2 ? Mt. Gayata, Richardson Range (E. Weisko coll.). 



1 c? (?) Mullins Harbour, British New Guinea (A. S. Meek coll.). 



immature birds from New Ireland (from an orchid hunter). 



Iit3. Phlegoenas johannae Scl. 

 One adult and one nestling from New Hanover (Oapt. U. Webster coll.). 



1U4. Phlegoenas beccarii (Salvad.). 



Of this rare pigeon we have only two young birds collected by Emil Weiske on 

 the Upper Aroa River, between 3tJiJ0 and TOUU ft. above the sea. A series of adult 

 individuals from the Berau Peninsula should be compared with a series from British 

 New Guinea. There are probably differences enough for a subspecific separation. 



105. Phlegoenas rufigula Bp. 



Ornithologists have separated two species, one called rufigida, from New 

 Guinea and the Western Papuan Islands, and another called helciveiitris from the 

 Aru Islands and the Fly River region in Southern New Guinea. These two forms 

 are very closely allied, and cannot be anything else than subspecies, the only 

 differences that can be relied on apparently being the more developed grey area at 

 the sides of the occiput in true vufgula. It seems to us that specimens from the 

 Berau Peninsula and Triton Bay have this grey band still more developed than 

 those from British New Guinea. In this case three forms might be distinguishable. 



We have at present the following specimens : — 



1. What we should call P. rujiyula rufigula : $ ad. Dorey (W. Doherty coll.). 

 " Iris dull ])ur]]le with an inner reddish line; feet purple; soles nearly white; bill 

 blackish, tinged with red ; tip paler." 



c? (?) ad. Triton Bay (Capt. C. Webster coll.). 



$ ad. Arfak (from Bruiju's hunters). 



? immat. Mansinam (from Brnijn's hunters). 



2. Typical P. rufigula hehimrdris. 



2 $ ad. Wokan, Aru Islands (H. Kiihu coll.). 



3. Six skins which seem to be intermediate between typical rufiguki and 

 kelijiventris, the grey band on the sides of the occiput, which is quite absent in 

 kelmventrin, being jiresent, but apparently less extended than in the typical rufigula. 



1 ad. near Humboldt Bay (Dumas coll.). 



2 ad. Upper Brown River (E. Weiske coll.). 



1 S ad., 1 jnv. Mt. Cameron, 5000 to 6000 ft. (Anthony coll.). 



2 S ad., 1 juv. Milne Bay (A. S. Meek coll.). " Iris brown, feet inirplo, bill 

 light purplish-brown." 



