11. ALECTf.tEN'AS. 1G1 



b'. Crown grey, like the rest of the head, 



neck, and breast syanzini, p. 162. 



b. Tail above red. 



a". IK-ad light f!?ey, nearly white, like 



tlie neck and breast nitidissima, p. 163. 



b". Head deep state-blue colour madayascariensis, p. 164. 



1. Alectrcenas pulcherrima. 



Pigeon violet a, tete rouge d'Antisue, Sonnet: Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 112, 



pi. 67 (1766Y 

 Columba pulcherrima, Scop. Del. Flor. et Faun. Inmbr. ii. p. 94, 



n. 98 (1776) {ex Sonnerat). 

 Red-crowned Pigeon, Lath. Syn. ii. 2, p. 628, n. 17 (1783). 

 Columba rubricapilla, Qm. S. X. i. 2, p. 784, n. 62 (1788); Lath. 



Ind. Orn. ii. p. 599, n. 19 (1790): Temm. ,V Snip, Pig. i. pi. 20 



(1808-1811) ; Temm. Pig. et Gal/in. i. pp. 233,464 (1813) ; Vieill. 



X. D. xxvi. p. 369 (1818) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. xi. 1, p. 11 (1819) ; 



Beam. Diet. 8c. Not. xl. p. 329 (1826) ; Wagl. Syst. Av. Columba, 



Bp. 24 (1827); Less. TV. d'Orn. p. 470 (1831); id. Compl. de Buff., 



Ois. viii. p. 94 (1837); id. op. cit. 2nd ed. p. 295 (1838). 

 Columba rubrocapillata, Bonn. Ene. Mitk. i. p. 234, pi. 77. f. 4 



(1790). 

 Ptilinopus pulcherrimus, G. B. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. Gallinse, p. 1 



(1844) ; id. Gen.B. ii. p. 467, n. 23 (1844); id. List B. Brit. Mus. 



Columbia, p. 9 (1856). 

 Carpophaga rubricapilla Hchnb. Tauben, Novitve, n. vi. p 1, t. 2306. 



f. 3861 (Oct. 1851). 

 .Tanthtenas rubricapilla, Rchnh. Syst. Av. p. xxv (1852). 

 Ptilopus rubricapillus, Licht. Komencl. p. t*2 (Bengal!) (1854). 

 Erythrsena pulcherrima, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 30 (1854); JRehnb. 



Tauben, i. p. 131 (1862). 

 Erythrcena pulcherrima, Bp. Compt. Bend, xxxix. p. 880 (1854), xl. 



p. 217, n. 70 (1855) ; id. Coup d'ail Ordr. Pig. pp. 12, 55, n. 70 



( 1 -55 1 : Hart/. J.f. O. 1860, p. 112 ; id. Orn. Beit,: Faun. Maday. 



p. 65 (1861) ; Pollen, X. T. D. i. p. 318 (1863); F. Neva. Ibis, 



1867, pp. 337, 345, 356, 35!i, 360; Oust. Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) i. 



p. 101 (1877). 

 P Alectrcenas nitidissima, E. Newt, {nee Scop.) Ibis, 1862, p. 196 



(Seychelles); Bchnb. Tauben, ii. p. 186 (1S62). 

 Ptilopus pulclnrrimus, Schley. Ue Dierent. p. 211 (1864) ; id. Mus. 



P.-B. Columbai, p. 44 (1873); Gieb. Thes. Om. iii. p. 367 (1877). 



? Turttir pieturatus, M.-K Ann. Sc. Nat. (5) xix. art. 3, p. 14 (IS74)- 

 Giinth. J- E. Xewt. Phd. Trans, vol. 168, p. 430 (1879). 



Known from a single sternum described by Prof. Milne-Edwards and from 

 limb-bones described by Dr. Gunther and Sir E.Newton. The "sternum is 

 mi different from thai of other members of this family (as far as they am 

 known), that we cannot refer it at present to any particular genus" (GUnther 

 an'! ]:'. .V ir- 

 lt was a native of Rodriguez, and Capt. Shelley says that it probably be- 

 longed to the genus Alectremas. 



a. Several bones to which the observations Rodriguez. Transit of Venus 

 of Dr. Gunther and E. Newton refer Exn. 



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