1387.] PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 421 



metallic bluisb greeu; interscapulars deep rose-purple, becoming nearly 

 violet towards tbe lower biic k ; scapulars more copper,y, and the smaller 

 upper wiug-coverts as well as tertiaries greenish; lower back and rump 

 glossed with a beautifully rich rose-purple; upper tail-coverts margined 

 with a coppery luster ; in "position C" the purple gloss turns bronze 

 green, and the green tnrns purple, except on the wing-coverts and tail- 

 coverts on which it turns bluish green. 



Kittlitz's figure (Kupfertaf., pi. v, fig. 2), which is tolerably good, rep- 

 resents the naked parts as follows : Iris, brown ; soft basal part of bill 

 wine purple, horny tip, yellowish ; feet, wine purple. The lores appear 

 to be naked in the specimen, but on tlie plate they are represented as 

 feathered. 



Mea8iiir7HCi>is. 



* Typo. 



3=4, 2, 5, 1, G 



Sixth i)rimary 31""" shorter than third ; first 29™" shorter than third ; 

 fifth 12™™ shorter than third; second 9™™ shorter than third, which is 

 equal to fourth, these two being longest. 



1832.- 



Janthoenas nitens Stejxp:gkr. 



p. 5, pi. V, fii 



1 {nee Temm.). — 



-Columha janthina Kittlitz, Kupfertaf.. 



7(i.,Denkwiird., 11, p. 174 (1858). 

 Cohunhis nitens Kittlitz, MS. ou original label of the tj-pe. 



Of this species, Kittlitz has only published a figure, but no descrip- 

 tion has been given, inasmuch as he w^roiigly referred it to the already 

 known J. jantJmia, to which it is most nearly related. As a conse- 

 quence of this confnsion the bird has remained unnamed, a defect I 

 propose to remedy by applying to it the name Janfhoenas nitem, which 

 is, indeed, the name by which Kittlitz designated it on the original 

 label. Kittlitz himself afterwards became aware of the distinctness of 

 this bird, but omitted to name it (see Denkw., II, p. 174). 



The type of this hitherto uudescribed species has on the bottom of the 

 stand the original label in the discoverers own handwriting, as fol- 

 lows : '■'■^o. 203. Cohimha nitens V. Kittl. Boninsima. v. KittllfzJ'' The 

 museum exhibition label is inscribed: lanthoenas IcittUtzi Temm., but 

 from the original description, as rendered above, it is evident thatTem- 

 minck by this name intended the other bir d. 



Description.— Ad. {Mus. Zool, Imp. Ac. Sc. St. Fetersb., No. 3020. 

 Boninshima, May, 1828. Kittlitz coll., No. 203). Ground color dark 



