I . EEIJfWAEDTCENAS. 3Q5 



7. REINWARDTCENAS. 



Reinwardtoena, Bp Consp. Av. ii. p. 59 (1854) R. rrinwardti. 



Leinwnrdtamas, Up. Ann. Sc. Nat. (4) iii. n 140 



n. 166(5 (1854). w ' 



Reinwardtfflna, G. .K. G/\ Zwri £»<?c. i?. j&r#. ilfwa 



ColumbsB, p. 40 (1856). 

 Coccyzomas, Heine, Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn p. 278 



(1800) (=Rein\vardtoenas). 



Range. From Celebes to Duke of York Island. 



Key to the Species, 

 a. Back chestnut. 



«'. Larger, more greyish reinwardti, p. 365. 



o . bmaller, more white mmnr r> «ift7 



ft. Back siate-biack ::::::::::::;: E2ft"&. 



1. Reinwardtcenas reinwardti. 

 Columba reinwardtsi (sic), Temm. PI. Col. 248 (liyr 42 18251 

 (Celebes, type examined); 8teph. Gen. Zool. xiy p 203 '(IS^h ■ 

 Less. Man. d'Orn ii. p. 163 (1828) ; id. Tr. d'Orn v . 473 (1831) 



Cok 



8,/st. Av Columba, sp. 39 (1827) ;'iV^'' J,'" jS* jE 'ii'pf 6 



Macropygia remwardii («c), tfw. Ctos. 5. ii. p. 349 (1837) 

 Macropygia reinwardtii, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 471, n. 7 (18441 • 



Rchnb Av .Syst. Natur. p. xxy (1852) ; G. R. Gr. List Spec. B. 



Lnt. Mus. Columbae, p. 40 (1856); id. P. Z. S. 1858, p 106- id 



fif 0? J il CrC ™- Cn0ur 0l the A *7* «** only of the third quill, the fourth, 

 fifth, and sutth without spots and of a uniform ash-brown ; under tail-coverA 

 cream,/ whtte ; tars, olive-brown ; bill black. Total length 12 inchos Klfft-om 



SSSm?" (Z^) of nostril °' 5, wiug "• tail e| outer «SSr «! 



//~a6. Tanna, N. Hebrides. 



che',t r fo S rl!d°n e ;1?i SpeCi f e ?. h %£° P, ecuh „ arit y of haTin S th <> feathers of the 

 cnest torked, as in some of the Ptilopi." (Ramsay ) 



itaSfa.?rt?"£ T a r^ g ° f th ! S specics antl *■"&*> "maris that " notwith- 

 standing the great differences in coloration between the two, they may 1 ere- 



j J • prove identical; the style of markings, he says, is very 'similar, but he 

 w ' n yi 'V«'s stronger and more rounded at the tip; both have eomp .rativey 

 weak bills, and on the whole are very slightly-built birds " 7 



I .hall hw ™3,^t n this bin1 ' wh , if ' h i8 ^ known t0 me from the descripl ion, 

 1 shall 1 mat myself to repeating what M.-,j„r Wardlaw Bamsay says :-•' What 

 tins bird from the Island of Tanna can be I do not know. .Mr. E P Earns "v 

 Wggeets (/. a.) the likelihood that it is the same as if. rufa, but it fa , ! i? 



'■ , r l '' s « , 7"l7'».t,. realize s«,h:, possibility. Certainly none <rf Sfffi 

 s ee,,„ens described above (/. c.) approach to the remarkable eharaeters cr bed 

 ; ' "!" ck \»%!»- On the other hand, it does not seem likely that an island 

 of the <n» Oj Ttona should contain two distinct species of sm J Macropnyt" 



