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54. Columba leucomela. 



Norfolk Pigeon, Lath. Syn. Suppl. ii. Add. p. 374 (1802) ; id. Gen. 



Hist. viii. p. 30 (1823). 

 Columba norfolciensis *, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. Ix, n. 6 (1802) ; 



Vieill. N. D. xxvi. p. 367 (1818) ; id. Enc. Meth. i. p. 377 (1823) ; 



Besm. Diet. Sc. Nat. xl. p. 376 (1826) ; Wagl. St/st. Av. Columba, 



sp. dub. 5 (1827). 

 Columba leucomela, Temm. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 126 (1821) (New 



Holland) ; id. PI. Col. 186 (livr. 32, 1823) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. 



p. 284 (1826) ; Besm. Diet. Sc. Nat. xl. p. 314 (1826) ; Less. 



Compl. de Buff., Ois. viii. p. 77 (1837) ; id. op. cit. 2nd ed. p. 290 



(1838) ; Knip $ Prev. Pig. ii. pi. 28 (1838-43). 

 Columba leucomelana, Wagl. Syst. Av. Columba, sp. 56 (1827). 

 Carpophaga leucomela, Gould, B. of Austr. v. pi. 59 (pt. xii., 1843) ; 



Rchnb. Vbg. Neukoll. p. 272 (1850) ; Ehey, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 27 



(Point Pearce) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 586 (1872). 

 Cavpophaga norfolciensis. G. R. Gr. List of Gallince B. M. p. 5 



(1844); id. Gen. B. ii. p. 468, n. 5 (1844); Bchnh. Sun. Av. 



Columbaria, ff. 1280-82 (1847) ; Cass. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 



1854, p. 232; G. R. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. Columba;, p. 24 



(1856); G. P. Gr. Ibis, 1862, p. 232; Pelz. Norma Beis., Vbg. 



p. 107 (1865); Schleq. Mus. P.-B. Columba;, p. 103 (1873); 



Rams. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 195, n. 518 (1878) ; id. Tab. 



List, p. 18, n. 531 (1888) ; Hartert, Eat. Vogelsamml. p. 190 (1891). 

 Alsocomus leircomelas, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 233, n. 1412 



(1849). 

 Myristicivora norfolcer.sis, Rchnb. Av. St/st. Nat. p. xxvi (1852) ; 



id. Tauben, i. p. 117, t. 229. ff. 1280- 82 (1862). 

 LeucomeUena norfolciensis, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 44 (1854) ; Gould, 



Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 112 (1865) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 231, 



n. 9228 (1870) ; Sousa, Mus. Nac. Lisb. Columbae, p. 12 (1873) ; 



Rams. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 115; Salv. Cat. B. StricM. Coll. p. 554 



(1882); Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 43 (1889); Hein. 8? Rchnw. 



Nomencl. Mm. Hein. Orn. p. 283 (1890). 

 Leucomeleena norfolciensis, Bp. Compt. Rend, xxxix. p. 1104 (1854), 



xl. p. 218, n. 120 (1855) ; id. Coup d'ceil Ordr. Pig. pp. 20, 56, 



n. 120 (1855). 

 Leucomelaina norfolciensis, Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 53, t. 229. ff. 1280- 



82 (1862). 

 Myristicivora norfolciensis, Rchnb. Tatiben, ii. p. 200 (1862). 

 Muscadivora leucomelana, Schleg. Dierent. p. 210 (1864). 



Adult male. Head, neck, breast, and abdomen white, 'washed 

 with buff ; throat white ; all the upper surface, wings, and tail 

 slate-black, all the feathers of the back, rump, and lower wing- 

 coverts edged with purple in some, and greenish purple in others ; 

 flanks slate-colour ; abdomen tinged with salmon-buff; under tail- 

 coverts light slate-colour : bill two-thirds from the base beautiful 

 pink-red, covered with a mealy substance ; tip of the bill yellow- 

 ish white, tinged with lilac ; irides large and of a rich yellowish 

 hazel in some specimens, reddish orange in others ; naked skin of 



* As there is no reliable evidence that this bird is found in Norfolk Island, 

 the name norfolciensis cannot stand. 



