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1. Globicera pacifica. 



Ferruginous-vented Pigeon, Lath. Syn. ii. 2, p. G33, n. 24 (1783). 



Columba pacifica, Gm. S. N. i. 2, p. 777, n. 44 (1788) (ex Latham; 

 Ins. Amicis) ; Lath. Lnd. Orn. ii. p. 000, n. 27, et var. (1790) 

 (part., ex Ins. Tongatabou, sed non ex Ins. Otaheite) ; Bonn. Enc. 

 Meth. i. p. 241 (1700) ; Bechst. Lath. Ueb. ii. p. 612, n. 24 (1794), 

 iv. p. 380 (1811). 



Colutnba eenea, part.,TF«///. Syst. Av. Columba, sp. 15 (1827). 



Columba globicera, Iteinh. Forst. MS. $• Icon. ined. ; Wayl. Isis, 

 1829, p. 738 (part., ex ins. Tonga-tabu et Eaoowe, sed non ex Oiilan 

 et Nova Guinea); Font. (ed. Licht.) Descr. An. p. lGti, n. 148 

 (part., Tonga-tabu et Eaoowe) (1844). 



Carpophaga senea, G. E. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 468, n. 1 (part.) (1844) ; 

 ? Marie, Act. Sue. Linn. Bord. xxvii. p. 328 (1870) (New Cale- 

 donia) ; id. Ibis, 1877, p. 362, n. 63 ; Layard, Ibis, 1878, p. 260, 

 1880, p. 231 (Loyalty Islands), 1882, p. 528 (New Caledonia), 

 p. 544; Schal. J.f. 6. 1887, p. 24-5. 



Carpophaga oceanica, Selb. (nee Less.) Nat. Libr., Pir/eons, p. 117, 

 pi. vii. (1835) ; Peale, Un. St. Expl. Exp. p. 198 (i848) (Upolu, 

 Tongatabu, and Duke of York Id.) ; Macyill. Vvy. Eattlesn. i. 

 p. 244 (1852) (Ducbateau Isl.) ; Hartl. Wieym. Arch. f. Naiurg. 

 1852, pp. 115, 134 (part., Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa Isl.) ; id. J.f. (). 

 1854, p. 169 (nee p. 168) ; ? Jouan, Mem. Sue. Cherb. ix. p. 96 

 (1863). 



Carpophaga globicera, Hartl. J.f. O. 1854, p. 168 (New Caledonia) ; 

 Cass. Pr. Ac. Nat. Se. Philad. 1854, p. 229, n. 9; Sclat. List Vert. 

 An. 8th ed. p. 443 (1883) (Samoa Isl.). 



Columba globicera, part., Forst. (ed. Licht.) Descr. An. p. 16G, n. 148 (var. 



ins. Otaheitee) (1844). 

 Carpophaga forsteri, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. App. p. 23 (1849) ; Gieb. Hies. 



Orn. i. p. 585 (part.) (1872). 

 Globicera forsteri (part.), Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 30 (1854); id. Com.pt. Rend. 



xxxix. p. 1072 (1854), xl. p. 217, n. 72 (1855) ; id. Coup d'oeil Ordre Pi,/. 



pp. 13, 55, ii. 72 (1855) ; id. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 835 (1856) ; Rchnb. 



Tauben, i. p. 120 (1862); Salvad. Monoyr. sottoyen. Globicera, p. 3 



(1878). 

 Carpophaga (Globicera) forsteri, G. R. Gr. Cat. B. Trop. Isl. p. 40 (1859). 

 Coluniba forsteri, FinscA § Hartl. Orn. < entralpol. p, 146 (note 1 ) (1867). 

 Serresius forsteri, part., G. R. Gr. Hand-lid, ii. p. 229, n. 9185 (1870) ; 



Wiglesw. Aces 1'olyn. p. 53, n. 271 (part.) (1891). 



" Varietas insula? Otaheitee prorsus capite et eerviee nigris. Dorsum, uropy- 

 giuin. remigea, et rectrices coeruleo- et viridi-nitentia. Quia, jugulum, pectus, 

 abdomen, et femora fuliginosa. Crissum ferrugineum. Capistrum album. 

 Cera prorsus non globosa." (Forster.) 



Although Forster'a description aarees very well with Serresius qalcatus from 

 tin- Marquesas Islands. lean scarcely believe that it applies to that Bpeciee, and 

 that tin' bird from Otaheitee is the sunn', as supposed by Gray, and more 

 recently by Mr. Wiglesworth. Forster distinctly Bays that his bird had the 

 " lira prorSUS non globosa," but he would not have tailed to describe the very 

 peculiar structure al the base of the oulmen of Serresius galeatus. In colouring 

 it seems that Carpophaga t forsteri is very much like C. wilkesi from the same 

 island, and I should have thought that the two «erc the s.une species, if it were 

 ii. it for the under tail-coverts being ferruginous, as mentioned by Forster. 



