592 peeisterid^;. 



8. Phlogcenas (?)hoedti. 



Leptoptila hoedtii, Schleg. N. T. B. iv. p. 30 (1871) (Wetter) ; id. 



Mus. P.-B. Columbse, p. 163 (1873). 

 Peristera hoedti, Gieb. Thes. Om. iii. p. 66 (1877). 



Adult male. Head and hind neck of a light grey, changing into 

 whitish on the throat : fore part and sides of the neck arid crop- 

 region white, with a yellowish rufescent tinge on the sides ; breast, 

 abdomen, tibial feathers, and under tail-coverts of a brownish grey- 

 black, tinged with russet ; under surface of the tail slate-colour, 

 upper surface dark grey with a subapical blackish band ; mantle, 

 back, upper tail-coverts, and upper surface of the wings of a coppery 

 reddish, changing into violet-red with a metallic gloss on the smaller 

 upper wing-coverts ; under surface of the quills ferruginous. Wing 

 6 inches, tail 4-5, tarsus 1, middle toe 11-05, bill 0-85. 



Female. Head, neck, crop-region, primaries except at the tip, and 

 tail-feathers of a reddish rufous, tbe latter (the lateral ones ?) with 

 a black subapical band ; the remainder of the plumage of a yel- 

 lowish brown, more or less rufescent. Wing 5-6 inches, tail 4*5. 

 '(Schleg.) 



Hub. Wetter Island, to the N.E. of Timor. 



This species is an aberrant one, having the first quill attenuated 

 at the tip, like a Leptoptila. 



9. Phlogcenas canifrons. 



Phlegcenas canifrons, llartl. $ Finseh, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 101 (Pelew 

 Isl.) ; Finseh, Journ. Mus. Godeffr. iv. Heft viii. p. 27, t. v. f. 1 

 (1875); Schmettz, Ethn. Abth. Mus. Godeffr. 1881, p . 407 ; 

 Wiglesw. Aves Polynes. p. 57, n. 291 (1891). 



Phlogoenas canifrons, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 112. 



Phaps canifrons, Gieb. Thes. Om. iii. p. 89 (1877). 



Adult male. Forehead, vertex, sides of the head, throat, and 

 sides of the neck ashy, paler on the forehead and throat, darker on 

 the vertex, and changing on the lower throat and crop-region into 

 a pale reddish-vinous colour ; occiput, nape, and upper mantle 

 cinnamon ; remainder of the upper parts bronze-olive, with a 

 metallic gloss in some lights ; smaller upper wing-coverts purple at 

 the tip ; lower breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts greyish 

 brown ; primaries cinnamon at the base, brown at the apical portion ; 

 under wing-coverts cinnamon, mottled with brown ; tail olive rufous- 

 brown, the lateral feathers with the tips paler rufous, and with a 

 subapical brown band, nearly obsolete : " bill horn -black ; feet red " 

 (Kubary). Total length about 7 - 5 inches, wing 4-6, tail 2-5, bill 0-6, 

 tarsus 1-26. 



Young. The grey colour of the forehead and of the throat dull 

 and changing into the rusty grey of the underparts ; no purple- 

 violet patch on the wing-coverts. (Mus. Turati.) 



