3. KEMENAS. 327 



Calovevora, Veragua (Arce). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Remedios, U.S. of Colombia Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(T. K. Salmon). 



New Granada. Purchased. 



Caraccas, Venezuela. Dyson Coll. 



Pallatanga, Ecuador (Fraser). Eyton Coll. 



Monji, Ecuador (Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Balzar Mountains, Ecuador Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Illinff worth). 



Quito, Ecuador (Higgins). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Ecuador. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3. NESCENAS. „, 



lype. 



Trocaza, Shell, (nee. Bp.) Ibis, 1383, p. 281 N. mayeri. 



Nesoenas, Salvad. MS. N. mayeri. 



Range. Confined to Mauritius. 



1. Nesoenas mayeri. 



Columba mayeri, Marchal, Mus. Marchal; Prev. fy Snip, Pig- ii- 

 pi. 60 (184':; ). 



Columba meveri, Schleg. Sf Pollen, Reck. Faun. Madag. p. Ill, pi. 36 

 (1868); Gieb. Tkes. Orn. i. p. 747 (1872); Hard, Vbg. Madag. 

 p. 265(1877). 



Carpophaga meyeri, G. R. Gr. fide Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 45 (1854). 



Peristera mayeri, 6. R. Gr. Gen, B. iii. App. p. 24 (1849). 



Trocaza meyeri, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 45 (1854); id. Compt. Rend. 

 xxxix. p. 1104 (1854), xl. p. 218, n. 128 (1855) ; id. Coup tTceil 

 Ordre Pig. pp. 20, 56, n. 128 (1855) ; Hartl. Orn. Beitr. Faun. 

 Madag. p. 66 (1861) ; Rehnb. Tauben, i. p. 54 (1862), ii. p. 168, 

 Novit, Suppl. t. ii. f. 19 (1862) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 233, 

 n. 9251 (1870) ; Sousa, Mus. Nac. Lisb. Coluuibae, p. 12 (1873) ; 

 Shell. Ibis, 1883, p. 281. 



Trocaza meijeri, Poll. N. T. D. i. p. 318 (1863). 



Adult. Head, neck, mantle, and underparts pale pink, fading 

 into whitish towards the forehead, cheeks, and upper throat, and 

 passing into rather darker pink on the mantle ; remainder of the 

 upper back and the entire wings brown, with a slight shade of olive 

 and rufous ; lower back and rump greyish, the latter mottled with 

 chestnut ; upper tail-coverts and tail cinnamon, the outer tail- 

 feathers fade into buff on the outer webs and towards the tips ; 

 under tail-coverts pink, like the mantle ; under surface of the wings 

 ashy brown, slightly paler on the axillaries and under wing- coverts : 

 " iris yellow ; bill yellow, shaded with red towards the base ; legs 

 red" (fide Shelley). Total length about 15 - 5 inches, wing S"5, 

 tail 6-5, bill 0*86, tarsus 1-3. 



Some specimens have a few brown feathers round the base of the 

 bill and on the chin. 



Hah. Mauritius. 



