31. PHLOGCHNAS. 589 



Peristera crinigera, part., Rchnb. Syn. Av. Coluinbarioe, Novit. t. 259. 



f. 2596 (wee 2597) (1851). 

 Peristera rufigula, Pucker, fy Jucq. Voy. Pole Sud, iii. Ois. p. 118 



(descr. nulla) (1853) ; Hartl. J.f. O. 1854, p. 166. 

 Phlegoenas rufigula, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 89 (1854). 

 Phlegcenas rufigula, lip. Compt. Bend. xl. pp. 206, 221, n. 265 (1855) ; 



id. Coup cPceil Ordre Pig. pp. 45, 59, n. 265 (1855) ; Rchnb. Tauben, 



i. p. 41, t. 259. f. 2596 (nee 2597, quae Ph. criniyera) (1862) ; 



Rosenb. N. T. N. I. xxv. p. 250, n. 240 (1863) ; id. J.f. 0. 1864, 



p. 133, n. 240; Wall. Ibis, 1865, pp. 393, 400, n. 107 ; id. J. f. O. 



1866, p. 284, n. 107 ; G. R. Or. Hand-list. ii. p. 247, n. 9444 



(part.) (1870) ; Schley. Mus. P.-B. Columtoae, p. 157 (1873); 



Sclat. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 698 ; Meyer, Mitth. Zool. Mus. Dresd. i. 



p. 11 (1875) ; Rosenb. Malay. Archip. p. 561 (1878); Tristr. Cat. 



Coll. B. p. 41 (1889). 

 Calcenas rufigula, G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 196 ; id. Cat. B. Neio 



Guin. pp. 49, 61 (1859) ; id. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 438 ; Finsch, Neu- 



Guin. p. 179 (1865). 

 Phlogoenas rufigula, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 791 (1875), 



ix. p. 205, n. 75 (part.) (1876), x. p. 160 (1877) ; UAlb. Nuova 



Gum. p. 582 (1880) ; Sharpie, Jouru. Linn. Soc, Zool. xvi. p. 446 



(1882) ; Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. pp. 161, 561 (part.) (1882) ; 



Rams. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. viii. p. 15 (1883) ; Guillem. P. Z. S. 



1885, p. 662 (Salawatti) ; Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xlii. 



p. 63 (Ayy. Orn. Pap. e Mol. p. 189) (1891). 

 Phaps rufigula, Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 90 (syn. emend.) (1877). 

 ? Chalcophaps helviventris, Rams, {nee Rosenb.) Pr. Linn. Soc. 



N. S. W. iv. p. 470 (1879) (S.E. New Guinea, Goldie). 



Adult male. Forehead and crown buff-rufous, paler on the former ; 

 occiput, nape, upper back, sides of the neck and of the upper 

 breast purple-greyish ; rest of the upper parts vinous chestnut ; a 

 grey baud from above the eyes along the sides of the occiput ; 

 cheeks pale vinous : throat, breast, and middle of the abdomen 

 white ; on the middle of the breast a yellow-ochreous patch, with 

 the barbs of the feathers long and stiff; flanks and under tail- 

 coverts buff ; upper wing-coverts chestnut, with the tips grew 

 producing four grey bands on the wing-coverts ; primaries brown, 

 with narrow rufous outer edges ; secondaries rufous brown : quills 

 underneath grey ; under wing-coverts brown, with buff or whitish 

 tips ; tail chestnut, two central feathers uniform, the lateral ones 

 with grey tips, the two or three outer pairs grey also towards the 

 base : " bill brown ; feet dark purple ; iris black " (D'Albertis). 

 Total length about 9-5 inches, wing 5-4, tail 3-25, bill 0-6, tarsus 

 1-37. 



Female. Similar to the male. 



Young. Patch on the middle of the breast ochreous ; bands across 

 wings rufous instead of grey. 



Hab. New Guinea, with the N.W. Papuan Islands — "Waigiou. 

 Salawatti, Mysol, and Jobi. 



a. Ad. sk. Salawatti. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Mysol. Purchased. 



c- 6 j uv - sk. Mambrioc, N.W. New Guinea. Salvin-Godman Coll 

 April. 



