236 TRER0NID.E. 



extremity : " irides fiery orange, surrounded by a lash of pink-red, 

 and seated in a bare mealy space of the same colour, but hardly so 

 bright; bill bright rose-red, inclining to lilac at the tip; fleshy 

 part covering the nostrils and at the base of the lower mandible 

 greenish lead-colour in the male, and lead-colour in the female ; 

 feet purplish, red ; back of the tarsi and soles of the feet greyish 

 brown " {Gould). Length about 15 inches, wing 104, tail 6, bill 

 (exposed culmen) p 6, tarsus 1*25. 



Young. Crest shorter, and tail-band narrower and less defined. 



Hah. Eastern Australia, from Cape York to Tasmania. 



a, b. Ad. st. Australia. 



c. Ad. sk. Linnean Soc. [P.]. 



(Type of Columha dilopha, Temm.) 



d. Ad. sk. Upstart Bay {J. B. Jukes). Voy. of H.M.S. ' Fly.' 



e. Ad. sk. Gould Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Australia. Seebohm Coll. 



g. Imm. sk. Queensland. Sydney Museum [P.], 



h. Ad. sk. S. Queensland. Tweeddale Coll. 



i. Ad. sk. S.E. Queensland (J. T. Salvin-Godrnan Coll. 



Cocker ell), 

 k. Skeleton. 



19. HEMIPHAGA. 



Type. 



Hemiphaga*, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 38 (1854) ; id. 



Compt. Bend, xxxix. p. 1076 (1854) H. novae zealandiae. 



Range. New Zealand Subregion. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Outer upper wing-coverts metallic green, with a 



greyish tinge ; hind neck and back uniform [p. 236. 



coppery chestnut ; under tail-coverts white .... novce zealandue, 

 h. Outer upper win°--coverts distinctly greyish. 

 a'. Hind neck golden green, sharply defined from 

 the coppery chestnut back ; under tail-coverts 



white spadicea, p. 238. 



b'. Hind neck, as well as the neck all round and 

 crop-region, dark metallic green with a 

 purple-blue tinge, sharply defined from the 

 coppery chestnut back; longer under tail- [p. 239. 



coverts dull metallic green chathamensis, 



1. Hemiphaga novae zealandiae. 



New Zealand Pigeon, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 640, n. 34 (1783). 

 Columba novae-seelandiae, Gm. S. N. i. 2, p. 773, n. 5 (1788) ; Ellman, 



Zool. 1861, p. 7467. 

 Columba zealandica, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 603, n. 37 (1790) ; Temm. 



Piy. et Gallin. i. p. 464 (1813) ; Vieill. N. D. xxvi. p. 354 (1818) ; 



Steph. Gen. Zool. xi. p. 38 (1819) ; Desm. Diet. Sc. Nat. xl. p. 373 



(1826) ; Wayl. Syst. Av. Columba, sp. dub. 4 (1827). 



* I suppose that Hemiphaga (!) stands for Hemicarpophuya. 



