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and tarsus, and in having the legs and feet flesh colored. 

 Mr. Gould mentions it from the Southern and Western coasts, 

 and states that it resorts, among other places, to the small islands 

 off Cape Leuwin for the purpose of breeding. Total length of 

 skin, 14'8 inches ; bill from forehead, 1*7 inches ; from nostril to 

 tips, 0'9 inches ; from gape, 1*9 inches ; wing, 1 1 inches ; tarsus, 2 

 inches ; tail, 3*8 inches ; middle toe and nail, 2 '4 inches. 



The bill in this specimen has the nostrils and culmen blackish. 



Among the Pigeons I find Didunculus strigirostris, on which 

 some very interesting notes by Mr. Whitmee will be found in the 

 P.Z.S., 1874, p. 183. 



? Carpophaga microcera, Bp. Janthaanas vitiensis, Quoy et Oaim. 



Phlegsenas stairii, Ptilonopus marise. Homb. et Jacq. Ptilo- 

 nopus fasciatus, Peale. From the Samoan Islands. 



And a Ptilonopus sp. from Savage Island. 



This is apparently one of the varieties of P. porphyraceus. 

 (Forst.) The crown of the head has more of a rose pink tint than 

 of a violet purple and is margined behind with a line of yellow ; 

 occiput and hind neck tinged with green, remainder of the neck 

 above and the mantle, ashy-grey tinged with green ; throat and 

 chin white, under surface and sides of the neck and face, the chest 

 breast, and the under surface of the wings and tail ashy grey ; 

 across the lower part of the breast a short dark obscure band, of 

 a violet tint in certain lights ; the abdomen, from this band 

 downwards, the flanks and feathered portions of the legs green, 

 the feathers on central portions of the abdomen and lower part 

 of thighs margined with yellow ; under tail-coverts clear bright 

 yellow without any orange or other tint. 



Tail, dark ashy grey below, green above ; across the tips of the 

 feathers, on the under surface is a band of ashy white ; on the outer 

 feathers this band is shaded with green on the margins, and finally 

 narrowly edged with yellow. Wings above, bright green, like the 

 tail, the quills brownish black on the inner webs, the secondaries 

 and wing coverts narrowly edged with yellow ; the back 



