2. COLTTMBA. 241 



Salvad. Ann. Mas. Civ. Gen. (2) x. p. 825 (Bujakori, S.E. New 

 Guinea) (1891) : id. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xlii.'p. 59 (Agg. Orn . 

 Pap. e Mol. p. 185) (1891). 



Adult male. Upper parts lead-grey, the feathers of the hack and 

 tho upper wing-coverts with a slight green lustre and edged with 

 blackish ; throat purple-chestnut ; sides of the neck lead-grey like 

 the upper parts ; breast amethystine white ; abdomen purple-chest- 

 nut ; tibial feathers and under tail-coverts grey ; sides and under 

 wing-coverts lead-gre}' ; quills slate-black ; tail also slate-black, 

 with a grey band at the tip : " bill, feet, irides, and naked space 

 round the eyes carmine-red " (D'Albertis). Total length about 

 14 inches, wing 8, tail 5-25, bill 07, tarsus 095. 



Female. Apparently like the male. Some specimens, perhaps 

 not fully adult, have the throat grey mixed with chestnut, the 

 purple-chestnut colour of the abdomen also with a slight grey wash, 

 and the amethystine-white colour of the breast minutely freckled 

 with grey. 



Young. Upper parts dusky brown ; some of the inner secondaries 

 and their coverts tinged with rusty towards the tips ; breast white, 

 tho tips of the feathers brown ; middle of the abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts tinged with rusty brown. 



Hah. New Guinea. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Astrolabe Mts. A. Goldie, Esq. [C.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Astrolabe Mts. (A. Goldie). Tweeddale Coll. 



d. Juv. sk. Astrolabe Mts. Dr. llomilly [P.l 



e. Ad. sk. Port Moresby (A. Goldie). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 /,!/,/>. Ad.sk. S.E. New Guinea (A. Goldie). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 i. Ad. sk. Sharpe Coll. 



k. Ad. sk. New Guinea. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. COLUMBA*. T 



Type. 



Coluniba, Linn. S. N. i. p. 279 (1706) C. livia. 



Palumbus, Knap, Natiirl Syst. p. 107 (1829) . . C. palumbus. 

 Les Picazuros, Less. Compl. de Huff. viii. p. 95 



(1837) 



Alsocornus, " Ticked," Myth, J. A. S. B. xi. 1, 



p. 401 (1842) C. punicea. 



Dendrotreron, Ilodqs. in Grays Zool. Misc. p. 85 



(1844) '. C. hodgsoni. 



Patagioenas, Ttchrib. Av. Si/xt. Nat. p. xxv (1852) C. leucocephala. 



Lepidn'lias, Hrhnh. Hiiil I'. SpeClOSa. 



Lithcenas, Rchnb. ibid C. livia. 



TaenioMias, Rchnb. ibid C. albitorques. 



( "liliini'iiiis, Jir/u/l). ibid C. fasciata. 



Stictcenas, Rchnb. ibid 0. arquatrix. 



Jantlio?nas, Rchnb. ibid C. iantliina. 



* I feel quite sure that the numerous species of the genus Coluniba ought to 

 !»• arranged in several subgenera, but as only Bome of these can be easily 

 defined, while others defy, at least for the present, precise definition, I have 

 thought it best to leave them all, as a whole, in one genus. 



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