2. COLUMUA. 152 J 



the orbits nearly pink-red ; feet buff, with the scales pink-red and 

 nail white" {Gould). Total length about 10 inches, wing 9"3, 

 tail 6, bill 0-8, tarsus 0-95. 



Female ('?). Upper part of the head, the neck, breast, and 

 abdomen pale brown-buff ; throat and cheeks whitish ; feathers of the 

 crown, nape, sides of the neck, crop-region, and rest of underparts 

 with metallic-purple tinge on the edges ; remainder of the upper 

 parts slate-colour, the edges of the feathers of the back, rump, and 

 wing-coverts metallic green, with purple reflections ; quills, tail, 

 under wing-coverts, upper and under tail-coverts slate-black : bill 

 apparently yellow ; feet pale. Total length about 15*5 inches, wing 

 9-5, tail 6, bill 075, tarsus 0-90. 



Young. Differs from the supposed female in being paler below, 

 and in having the under tail-coverts pale brown, with the shaft of 

 the feathers white. 



There is some uncertainty as to whether the birds described as 

 female and young really belong to this species ; but this cannot 

 be settled without a larger series. 



//ah. Eastern Australia, from Rockingham Bay to Clarence 

 River district, and the interior as far as Point Pearce. 



a. Ad. sk. New South Wales (Cockered Salvin-Godman Coll. 



and Thorpe), 

 h. Ad. sk. Queensland. Tweeddale Coll. 



r. Ad. sk. Linnean SocietyHP.]. 



(Type of species.) 



d. Ad. sk. Australia. Ladv Carrington 



[P.]. _ 



e. Ad. sk. Australia. A. Cunningham, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 /. Ad. sk. Australia. Gould Coll. 



//. Ad. sk. Purchased. 



h. d ? ad. sk. Manchester Museum 



[P.]. 

 t. Inini. sk. Rockingham Bay. Gould Coll. 



oo. Columha polleni. 



Columba pollenii, SchUg. N. T. I), iii. p. 87 (1866) : id. P.Z. S. 1860, 

 p. 424 ; Schleg. $ Poll. Sech. Fatal. Madag. p. 112. pi. 37 (1808) ; 

 Poll. Relat. Voy. p. 132; Gieb. Tins. Orn. i. p. 149 (1872); 

 Hart I. Tog. Madag. p. 267 (1877); R. Newt. P. Z. S. 1877, 

 pp. 300, 301 (Anjuan); Shell. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 078 (Annum) ; 

 Milne-Ed. ,V Oust. Xoiu: Arch, du Mus. (2) x. p. 273 (Grande 

 Com ore) (1889). 



Trocaza polleni. G. P. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 233, n. 9255 (1870). 



Btictosnaa polleni, Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Columba?, p. 72 (1873). 



Palumbus polleni, Shelf. Ibis, l.s-3, p. 2-2. 



Adult. Nearly uniform brown, with a slight olive gloss on 

 the upper parts ; a collar at the back and sides of the neck of 

 lanceolate feat Iris, with paler ashy brown ends, edged on the 

 outer webs with whitish; quills with narrow pale edges: "iris 



vol.. xxi. X 



