14. GLOBICERA. 181 



back, rump, and wings dark metallic green, more or less tinged with 

 steel-blue ; the green colour of the back sharply defined from the 

 cinereous of the neck ; tail deep steel-blue, tinged with green toward* 

 the base ; under wing-coverts dark metallic green ; quills and tail 

 underneath brown-black : bill horn-black : " feet lake-red ; irides 

 bright crimson" (Peale). Total length about 17 inches, wing lU - 5, 

 tail 7, bill 0-93, tarsus 1*5. 



Hah. Aurora or Maitea Island, Society Group. 



7. Glohicera wilkesi. 



Carpophaga wilkesii, Peale, Un. St. Expl. Exp. p. 203, pi. 58 (1848) 



(Tahiti) ; Hartl. Wieqm. Arch.f. Naturg. 1852, pp. 116, 134; id. 



J.f. O. 1854, p. 169 ;' Cuss. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1854, p. 230 ; 



id. Un. St. Expl. Exp., Om. p. 258, pi. 25 (1858); Rchn'i. 



Tauben, ii. p. 183, Nova. Suppl. t. vi. f. 73 (1862) ; Saload. Monogr. 



sottogen. Globicera, p. 16 (1878) ; id. Ibis, 1879, p. 364; Wiglesiu. 



Aves Polynes. p. 52, n. 267 (1891). 

 Globicera forsteri, part., Bp. Consp. Ao. ii. p. 33 (1854) ; id. Compt. 



Itend. xxxix. p. 1072 (1854), xl. p. 217, n. 72 (1855); id. Coup 



d'ceil Ordr. Pig. pp. 13, 55, n. 72 (1855) ; Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 120 



(part.) (1862). 

 Globicera wilkesi, Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 835(1856); id. Icon. 



Pig. in the text q/^Serresius galeatus (1857). 

 Carpophaga (Globicera) wilkesii, G. R. Gr. Cat. B. Trop. Isl. p. 41 



fI859). 

 Carpophaga forsteri, part., Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 585 (1872). 

 Serremus forsteri, part., G. R. Gr. Haul-list, ii. p. 229, n. 9186 



(1870). 



Adult male (type). Head, neck, and underparts dark fuliginous, 

 lightest on the throat and abdomen, darkest on the upper part of 

 the head and hind neck ; narrow band at the base of the bill whitish; 

 back, rump, and wings above dark metallic green, more or less 

 tinged with blue ; tail dark steel-blue, with a green tinge towards 

 the base ; uuder wing-coverts and under tail-coverts dark bottle- 

 green ; quills and tail underneath brown-black : " bill black ; feet 

 orange-brown ; irides lake-red ; nail sepia-brown " (Peale}. Total 

 length about 17 inches, wing 11, tail &o, bill G'S2, tarsus T4. 



Hub. Tahiti, Society Islands *. 



15. CARPOPHAGA. _ 



Type. 

 Carpophaga, Selbg, Nat. Libr., Pigeons, p. 112 (1835) .... C. ainat- 

 iUuscadivora, Schleg. De Dierent. p. 209 (1864) ( = Carpo- 

 phaga). 



* This and the preceding species are only known from the types in the 

 Smithsonian Institution, and I have to thank Mr. Ridgway for having obtained 

 leave from the authorities of that Institution for the specimens to be sent to me 

 for identification and description. 



t Selby does not designate the type of the genus ; he says that Cohtmba mag- 

 nijica, Temm., is one of the most beautiful species. Ornithologists have agreed 

 to recognize as tvpe 0. esnea, [inn., this being the oldest species known 

 [ef. G. R. Gray, Gen. 13. ii. p. 468 ; Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 32). 



