31. phlogcenas. 583 



f. $ ad. sk. Matagalpa, Nicaragua, Sept. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(W. B. Richardson). 

 g'. Ad. sk. San Rafael del Norte, Nica- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ragua, March ( W. B. 



Richardson). 



31. PHLOGCENAS. 



Type. 



Phlegcenas, Rchnb. Syn. Av. Columbaria), Novit. 

 t. 227. f. 2479 (1851) ; id. Av. Syst. Nat. p. xxv 

 (1852) P. luzonica. 



Pampusana, " Bp." Pucker. Voy. Pole Sud, iii. 

 Ois. p. 118 (1853); Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 89 

 (1854) P. pampusan. 



Phlegamas, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 88 (1854). 



Pampusan, Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 947 (1856) . P. erythroptera. 



Phlogcenas, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 366; 1865, 

 p. 238. 



Range. Malay Archipelago (from the Philippines on the north to 

 Wetter, of the Timor Group, on the south, and to the Solomon 

 Islands on the east) and Polynesia. 



Key to the Species. 



a. A patch of feathers with long and stiff barbs 



on the middle of the crop-region. 

 a. Stiff feathers on the middle of the crop- 

 region red or orange. 

 a". Forehead and crown grey ; abdomen 



white, slightly washed with red luzonica, p. 585. 



b". Forehead, like the rest of the upper part 

 of the head, metallic green. 

 a"'. Stiff feathers of the crop-region very 

 long, of a blood-red colour ; breast and 



abdomen fawn-colour criniyera, p. 587. 



b"\ Stiff feathers of the crop-region short 

 and of an orange colour : breast and 

 abdomen white : only the anterior 

 smaller and median upper wing-coverts 



grey platence, p. 588. 



b'. Stiff feathers on the middle of the crop- 

 region ochreous reddish ; wings chestnut, 

 with four grey bands at the tip of the 

 coverts. 

 c". Sides of the crown and occiput with a grey 



band rufigula, p. 588. 



d". Sides of the crown and occiput uniform 

 with the rest of the head, with no grey 

 bands hehiventris, p. 590. 



b. No patch of stiff feathers on the middle of the 



crop-region ; wings with no distinct bands. 

 c . Forehead yellow ; crown and occiput 

 metallic green. 

 e". A complete purple nuchal band ; 4 or 

 5 central pairs of rectrices uniform 

 olive-brown, the outer 3 or 2 pairs 

 olive-brown, tipped with grey tristiyma, p. 590. 



