594 PERISTERID^E. 



forehead, sides of the head and neck, and throat dark grey ; re- 

 mainder of the underparts greyish brown ; primaries slate-brown ; 

 secondaries, upper wing-coverts, and upper surface of the tail like 

 the back ; tail-feathers on the inner web and on the under surface 

 slate-brown ; bill brown ; feet red. (Mas. Genoa.) 

 Hah. N.W. New Guinea, doubtfully Jobi. 



a. Ad. sk. Jobi ? Purchased. 



11. Phlogoenas johannse. 



Phlegcenas stairii, Rams, (nee G. R. Gr.) Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 



i. p. 374 (1876) (Duke of York Island). 

 Phlogoenas johannae, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 112, pi. xvi. (Duke 



of York Isl. ?) ; Gould, B. New Guin. pt. vii. pi. 9 (1878) ; Sclat. 



P. Z. S. 1879, p. 447; Finsch, Ibis, 1881, p. 538; Salvad. Orn. 



Pap. e Mol. hi. pp. 167, 562 (1882). 



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

 throat, and upper breast grey, darker on the crown and along 

 the sides of the neck, paler on the throat, and changing into 

 whitish grey on the lower part of the breast, which is surrounded 

 by a brown-purple band ; occiput and nape bronze olive-brown, 

 changing into olive-bronze chestnut on the remainder of the upper 

 parts ; the wings, the upper tail-coverts, and tail with a purple 

 gloss ; smaller upper wing-coverts edged with violet-purple ; quills 

 brown, under wing-coverts and basal portion of the inner webs of 

 the quills tinged with rusty ; lower breast, abdomen, and under 

 tail-coverts dark greyish brown with a chocolate tinge ; the lateral 

 tail-feathers greyish brown, with rufescent tips and a subapical 

 broad dusky band : bill brown-black ; feet probably red. Total 

 length about 7'75 inches, wing 4-4, tail 2-8, bill 0-54, tarsus 1*1. 



A specimen marked female by the Rev. G. Brown is similar to 

 the male, but I suspect that it has not been properly sexed, as the 

 females in this group differ from the male in wanting the purple 

 patch on the smaller upper wing-coverts. 



Hob. Duke of York Island. 



a > °- c? [ 2 ] ad. sk. [New Britain.] Tweeddale Coll. 



(Types of species.) 



12. Phlogoenas granti. (Plate XI. fig. 2.) 



Phlogoenas Johanna?, Tristr. (nee Sclat.) Ibis, 1879, p. 444, 1882, 

 pp. 144, 146 (Solomon Islands) ; Rams. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 

 vii. p. 38 (1882) : Tristr. Cat. Coll. B.y. 41 (1889) (San Christoval). 



Phlogoenas solomo'nensis, Grant, P. Z. S. 1888, pp. 186, 187, 200 

 (Aola, Guadalcanal - ) (nee Phlogamas salomonis, Kama.). 



Adult male. Similar to the male of Ph. johannce, but larger, with 

 the grey colour of the head, throat, sides of the neck, and breast 

 much darker, and with the back, wings, and upper surface of the 



