16 TREROXID/F.. 



Columba abvssinica, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. lx (1802) ; Temm. 8[ 

 Snip, Piy. i. p. 131, pi. 9 (nee $ pi. 8) (1808-11) ; Temm. Hist. 

 Nat. Pig. pp. 65, 443 (1813) ; Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xxvi. p. 393 

 (cJ wee §) (1818); itf. .EW. Mith.?. 378, pi. 238. f. 3 (1823): 

 id. Gal. des Ois. i. p. 332, pi. 195 (1825); Desm. Diet. Sc. 

 Nat.xl. V . 368 (1826); Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 47(5 (part.) (1831); 

 Riipp. Neue Wirbelth. p. 67 (1835-40) ; Sund. K. Sv. Vet.-Ak. 

 Handl, 1852, p. 55, n. 276; Hartm. J. f. O. 1863, p. 468, 1864, 

 p. 228. 



Colombar a epaulettes violettes, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. vi. pi. 276 (1808). 



Vinago abvssinica, Quo. Err///. An. i. p. 457 (1817); Steph. Gen. 

 Zool. xi.'l, p. Ill (1819); Sw. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 202 (1837); 

 Hartl. Syst. Vers. Brem. p. 98 (1844): Riipp. Syst. Uebers. 

 p. 100, n. 360 (1845): F Verr. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1851, p. 422 

 (Gaboon). 



Columba humeralis, Wagl. (nee Temm.) Syst. An. Columba, sp. 2 

 (<S nee ?) (1827). 



Treron abvssinica, G. R. Gr. List Gallinee, p. 3 (1844) : id. Gen. B. 

 ii. p. 467, n. 9 (1844) ; Rchnb. Syn. Av. Coliimbariae, ffi 1345-46 

 (1847): Sclat. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 126; Hartl. Beitr. Orn. 

 W-Afr. p. 37 (1852) ; id. J.f. O. 1854, p. 205; G. R. Gr. List /;. 

 Brit. Mus. Columba, p. 15 (1*56) ; Hartl. Syst. Orn. W.-Afr.y. 193 

 (1857) ; Brehn, Habesch,^. 221, 370 (1863) ; Heugl. J. f. 0. 1864, 

 p. 264 (var.); ? Layard, B. S. Afr. p. .155 (1867) ; Schley. Sf Poll. 

 Rech. Faun. Mad ay. p. 117 (1868) ; Blanf. Geo/. $■ Zool. Abyss. 

 p. 418 (1870) ; Heugl. Peterm. Geoyr. Mitth. 1869, p. 415 ; Schleg. 

 ilus P.-B. Oolumbae, p. 48 (1873) (Abyssinia and Seneprambia !) ; 

 Salv. Cat. B. Strickl. Coll. p. 556 (1882; ; P Yerbury, Lbis, 1886, 

 p. 18 (Peninsula of Aden !). 



Phalacrotreron abvssinica, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 7 (1854) ; id. Compt. 

 Rend, xxxix. p.'873 (1854), xl. p. 216, n. 6 (1858) ; id. Coup (Toil 

 Ordr. Piy. pp. 4, 54, n. 6 ( 1855) ; Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 108, ii. p. 181 

 ff. 1345-46 (1862): Antin. Cat. p. 87 (1864); G. R. Gr. Hand- 

 list, ii. p. 224, n. 9115 (1870) ; Soma, Mus. Nac. Lisb. Colunibae, 

 p. 6(1*73). 



Geopelia humeralis, Heuyl. (nee Gould) Syst. Uebers. p. 49 (1856). 



Treron babessinica, Heuyl. J.f. O. 1862, p. 294. 



Treron waalia, Finsch $ Hartl. Vby. Ost-Afr. p. 533 (1870) ; FinscA 

 $ Jesse, Tr. Zool. Soc. vii. p. 288 (1870); Heuyl. Orn. X.O.- 

 Afr. i. 2, p. 817 (1871) ; Antin. §■ Salvad. Ann. Mas. Civ. iv. 

 p. 492 (1873); Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. Nachtr.p. clxviii (1875); 

 Hartl. Abh. nat. Ver. Brem. vii. p. 117 (1881) (Lado) ; Sclat. # 

 Hartl. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 173 (Socotra) ; Shell. Ibis, 1883. p. 265; 

 Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xvii. p. 436 (1884); Salvdd. 

 Ann. 3Ius. Civ. Gen. (2) i.p.206 (1884) ; Shell. Ibis, 1885, p. 414 

 (Somali-land) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) vi. p. 302 (1888) ; 

 Hartert, Kat. Vbgelsamml. p. 191 (1891). 



Phalacrotreron waalia, Hein. §■ Rchnw. Nomcncl. Mus. Hein. Orn. 

 p. 280 (1890). 



Adult male. Head, neck, and upper breast ashy olive : back, 

 rump, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, and innermost secondaries olive ; 

 breast bright yellow ; sides olive-grey ; abdomen whitish buff ; 

 thighs buff, more or less tinged with yellow ; under tail-coverts 

 with broad white-buff edges, the centres of the smaller feathers 

 being dark grey tinged with olive and of the longer ones chestnut ; 



