31. PHLOGCENAS. 593 



Hub. Pelew Islands. 

 a. Ad. sk. Pelew Islands (Cohen). Purchased.* 



10. Phlogcenas beccarii. (Plate XI. fig. 1.) 



Chalcophaps, sp., Becc. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 716 (Hataru) 



(1875). 

 Chalcophaps beccarii, Salvad. Ann. 3Ius. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 974 



(1875) ( ?), ix. p. 207, n. 79 (1876) ; id. Atti R. Ac. Sc. Tor. 



xiii. p. 314 (1878) (cJ). 

 Phlogcenas beccarii, Salvad. Orn. Pa]), e Mol. iii. p. 168 (1882). 



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

 and breast grey, lighter on the lower part of the breast ; vertex, 

 occiput, nape, and all the upper parts dark olive, with a bronzy 

 gloss ; smaller upper wing-coverts with purple -violet edges ; the 

 grey of the breast surrounded by a dark brown band, tinged with 

 purple on the sides ; lower breast, abdomen, under wing-coverts, 

 and under tail-coverts dark greyish brown ; quills brown-grey, the 

 inner secondaries like the back ; central tail-feathers dark bronze- 

 olive like the back, the lateral ones duller, with lighter tips, and 

 with a broad subapical, almost obsolete, darker band : bill black ; 

 feet red. Total length about 7 inches, wing 4-2, tail 2-6, bill 5*5, 

 tarsus 1*15. 



Female. Upper parts bronze brown-olive ; crown and nape darker; 



* The following species, which on account of its small size seems to belong 

 to the l'h. canifrons group, is only known from young specimens: — 



Phlogcenas yapensis. 



Pblegcenas yapensis, Hartl. $ Finsch, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 102 (juv.) (Uap) ; 



Schmeltz, Ethn. Ahth. Mus. Godeffr. 1881, p. 391 (note); Wiglesw. Aves 



l\,li/n. p. 57, n. 293 (1891). 

 Phlegoenas napensis, Sharpc, Zool. Bee. ix. (1872), p. 53 ( 1 S7 4 ) . 

 Phaps yapensis, Gieb. Thcs. Orn. iii. p. 91 (1877). 



Young male. " Has the upper and lateral part of the head light rufous ; the 

 feathers of the whole back, wing-coverts, scapulars, and tertiaries are of a dark 

 brown, with broad margins of pale rufous ; a large shoulder-spot purplish 

 Violet, mixed with pale rufous ; primaries of a uniform blackish brown ; tail- 

 feathers light rufous with a broad black band before the tip ; the throat seems 

 to be of a dirty rufeseent colour; the feathers of the breast pale bluish grey, 

 margined with rufous, those of the abdomen and under tail-coverts blackish, 

 variegated with obsolete rufeseent shades: under wing-coverts of an obscure 

 mixture of black and rufous: bill yellowish, darker round the base; feet 

 plumbeous, with pale nails. Total length 5" 4"' ^ French measure), tail 3" ('>"', 

 bill TV", tarsus 14'"." 



Young female ''is rather differently coloured, the back being of a dark 

 olivaceous green, with bronze reflections; wing-coverts, tertiaries, and scapulars 

 also more greenish, with broad rufous margins : no purplish shoulder-spots; 

 the whole head light rufous; breast and abdomen of an Indistinct olivaceous 

 rufeseent hue ; under wing-coverts rufous; tail as in the elder bird. Total 

 length :>". tail 3" 4"', bill 7 '", tarsus 13A'"." 



Sab. Uap, Mackenzie Islands, 

 voi.. xxi. 2 a 



