2. COLUMBA. 309 



■a. Juv. sk. 



Naneowry, Nicobars, Jau. (11. Tweeddale Coll."") 

 J. Wimberley). 

 o. $ ad. sk. Trinkut, Nicobars, March (A. Hume Coll. 



de Roepstorf.) j 



p. $ inmi. sk. Trinkut, Nicobars, Jan. (R. J. Tweeddale Coll. j 



Wimberley). J 



(Types of J. nicobarica, Wald.) 

 q. 2juv.sk. Chowy Is., Nicobars, Jan. (IV. Hume Coll. 



Davison). 



41. Columba versicolor. 



Columba versicolor, Kittl. Kupfertaf. i. p. 5, pi. v. f. 2 (1832) . G. 



R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 470, n. 22 (1844) ; Kittl. Denkwurd. ii. 



p. 174(1868). 

 Columba kitlitzii (sic), Temm. PL Col. (livr. 98, 1835) ; id. Tail. 



Mith. p. 80 (1839). 

 Columba metallica, Yig. (nee Temm.) Voy. 'Blossom,' 1 Orn. p. 25 



(1839) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 470, n. 21 (1844). 

 Carpophaga kittlitzii, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 469, n. 21 (1844) ; 



Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 585 (1872). 

 Janthaenas kittlitzi, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 45 (1854). 

 Janthcenas kittlitzi, Bp. t'ompt. Rend, xxxix. p. 1105 (1854), xl. 



p. 218, n. 123 (1855) ; id. Coup d'ceil Ordr. Pig. pp. 21, 57, 



n. 123 (1855); Rcknb. Tavben, i. p. 118, t. 224. f. 1261 (ex 



Kittlitz) (1862) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 231, n. 9215 (1870). 

 Columba iris, Kittl. Denkumrd. ii. p. 75 (1858). 

 Janthcenas janthina, part., Schley. Miis. P.-B. Columba?, p. 74 



(1873). 

 Carpophaga janthina, BlaM&t. (nee Temm.) Chrysanth. 1883, April, 



p. 174; id. Amend. List B. Jap. p. 44 (part.) (18^4). 

 Janthu'iias versicolor, Stejneg. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mux. x. p. 419 (1887). 

 Columba splendids, Kittl. MS.Jide Stejneg. Pr. U.S. Xat. Mus. x. 



p. 420 (1887). 

 Carpophaga versicolor, Seehh. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 586 ; id. Ibis, 1890, 



pp. 103, 108; id. Birds Japan. Emp. p. 166 (1890); Hartert, 



Kat. Vogelsamml. p. 1U0 (1891). 



Ail "It. Ground-colour light, slate-grey ; upper parts, viz. hind 

 part of the head, nape, back, and rump, with various splendid 

 metallic reflections, according to the light, but principally golden 

 purple. Hi ml neck metallic green ; longer upper tail-coverts with 

 a bronze-green lustre: underparts lighter grey than the upper 

 ones, and in some lights with golden-green or purple lustre on the 

 edges of the feathers ; flanks with a violet lustre ; wings and tail 

 slate-colour, the upper wing-coverts with bronze-green edges: "iris 

 dark blue ; bill greenish yellow; feet dark red" (JJolst). Total 

 length about I s inches, wing 10*5, tail 7'5, bill - 85, tarsus 1*25. 



Hab. Bonin Islands, perhaps confined to the Parry group. 



Thanks to the authorities of the Senckenberg Museum, I have 

 Been one of the types of the species. 



A. sk. Nakondo-Shima, Parry Isl., Sept. EL Seebohm, Esq. P. 

 (/'. A. Hold). 



