368 C0LU3IBID.E. 



Adult male (type). Head, neck, and underparts white, tinged 

 with grey on the occiput, nape, mantle, and flanks ; hack, remainder 

 of upper parts, including wings and tail, black ; the four outer tail- 

 feathers with a pale slate band towards the base ; under tail-coverts 

 dark grey : " iris light yellow ; bill and feet cherry " (Richards) ; 

 " iris blue with a broad orange margin ; legs red " (Brown). 

 Total length about 18 inches, wing 9, tail 10, bill 0-8, tarsus 14. 



Female. Similar to the male. 



Hob. Duke of York Island and New Britain. 



a. <$ ad. sk. Duke of York Is. (Rev. G. Tweeddale Coll. 



Brown). (Type of species.) 



b. Ad. sk. Duke of York Is. (Rev. G. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Brown). 



c. 9 ad. sk. New Britain, Jan. Hr. J. Kleinschmidt 



[C.]. 



8. CORYPHffiNAS. 



Type. 



Coryphcenas, Wardl. Rams. Ibis, 1890, p. 246 C. crassirostris. 



Cf. Hasicell, W. A., " Note on the Anatomy of tiro rare Genera of 

 Pigeons " (Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. vii. pp. 111-116, 1882) ; Wardlaw 

 Ramsay, " On a new Genus of the Order Columbse " (Ibis, 1890, 

 pp. 246-247). 



Range. Confined to Solomon Islands. 



1. Coryphcenas crassirostris. 



Turaccena crassirostris, Gould, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 136 ; Bp. Compf. 



Rend, xliii. p. 839 (1856); Wall. Ibis, 1865, pp. 391, 399; id. 



J. f. 0. 1866, p. 283 ; Sclat. P. Z. 8. 1869, 118 ; G. R. Gr. 



Hand-list, ii. p. 237, n. 9309 (1820) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 673 ; 



Rams. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. vii. p. 36 (1882) ; Haswell, ibid. 



p. 116 (anatomy) (1882) ; Grant, P. Z. 8. 1888, p. 199 (Aola, 



Guadalcanal-). 

 Macropygia crassirostris, G. R. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. Columbse, 



p. 40 (1856) ; id. Cat. B. Prop. Isl. p. 43 (1859) ; Sclat. P. Z. 8. 



1869, p. 124; G. R. Gr. Cruise of the 'Curacoa,' p. 390, pi. 19 



(1873) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. ii. p. 517 (1875) ; Tristr. Ibis, 1882, 



p. 144 ; id. Cat. Coll. B. p. 269 (1889). 

 Reinwardtcena crassirostris, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. p. 204, 



n. 62 (1876). 

 Reinwardtcenas crassirostris, Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Mol. hi. pp. 131, 



560 (1882). 

 Coryphcenas crassirostris, Wardl. Rams. Ibis, 1890, p. 246 ; Salvad. 



Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xlii. p. 60 (Ayg. Orn. Pap. e Mol. p. 186) 



(1891). 



Adult male. Head dusky brown ; occipital feathers lengthened 

 into a greyish-brown crest ; whole plumage slate-colour, darker on 

 the upper surface, or back, wings, and tail; outer three pairs of 

 tail-feathers with a grey bar, the outermost feather has the outer 



