31. PHLOGCENAS. 595 



tail of a much richer chocolate, washed with purple ; the purple 

 patch on the smaller wiug-coverts darker and more violet : " bill 

 black ; legs carmine ; iris brown " ( Woodford). Total length about 

 8-5 inches, wing 4/7, tail 2-8, bill 055, tarsus 1-2. 

 llab. Guadalcanal - , Solomon Islands. 



a. <$ ad. sk. Aola, Guadalcanal-, Aug. V. M. Woodford, Esq. [C.~|. 



(Type of species and of 

 Ph. solomonensis, Grant.) 



13. Phlogcenas stairi. 

 a. Synonymy for Tonga specimens. 



Caloenas (Phlegoenas) stairi, G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 7, pi. cxv. 



(? Samoa ; probably Tonga). 

 Caloenas stairi, Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 947 (note) (1856) ; 



G. R. Gr. List B. Brit. Nit*. Columbae, p. 64 (1856) (Samoa?) ; 



Mat. Ibis, 1859, p. 327; G. R. Gr. Cat. B. Trop. Isl. p. 44 (1859) 



(Samoa?); Schleg. N. T. D. iv. p. 28 (1871). 

 Pampusana erythroptera, part., Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. pp. 947, 949 



(1856). 

 Phlegoenas stairi, Hartl. <§■ Finsch, Orn, Centralpol. p. 147 (1867) 



(part.) ; iid. J.f. 0. 1870, pp. 121, 122, & L34 ( part., Tonga) ; Graffe, 



ibid. pp. 402, 409 (Tonsra) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. S47, n. 9447 



(1870) ; Finsch, J. f. O. 1872, p. 48 (Tonga) ; Nehrk. J. f. O. 



1879, p. 407 ? ; Wiglesw. Aves Polynes. p. 56, n. 289 (1891). 

 Leptoptila stairii, Schleg. N. T. D. iv. p. 28 (1871); id. Mus 



P.-B. Coluuibaj, p. 162 (part.) (1873). 

 Phlogcenas stairi, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 112; id. List Vert An 



8th ed. p. 462 (Fiji Isl. !) (1883). 

 Phaps stairoi, part., Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 91 (1877). 



b. Synonymy for Fiji specimens. 



Peristera erythroptera, Hartl. (nee Gin.) Ibis, 1864, p. 232 (Feejee 



Islands). 

 Phlegoenas stairi, part., Hartl. §■ Finsch, Orn. Centralpol p. ]47 



(1867) (Fiji) ; iid. J.f. 0. 1870, p. 134 (part.) ; E. L. Layard, 



P. Z.S. 1875, pp. 151, 438 (Fiji) ; id. Ibis, 1876, p. 392 (Ovalau, 



Vakaia, Mokani, Vanua Levu, Taviuni, Vita Levu) ; North. Pr. 



Linn. Soc. N. 8. W. (2) ii. p. 445 (1887) (Fiji); Rchnw. J. f. 0. 



1891, p. 127 (Fiji). 

 Leptoptila, .stahii, Schleg. X. T. I), iv. p. 30 (1871); id. Mus. P.-B. 



Columbse, p. 162 (part.) (Fiji) (1873ft 

 Phlegoenas vitiensis, Finsch, J.f. 0. 1872, p. 50 (Fiji). 

 Phaps stairei, part., Gieb. Hies. Orn. iii. p. 91 (1877) (Viti). 

 Phlegoenas stairi vitiensis, Wiglesw. Aves Polynes. p. 56, n. 290 



(1891). 



Adult male. Glossy brown, with bronze and purple reflections 

 in some lights ; front, sides of the head and neck, and breast 

 vinous rufous, changing into white round the edge of the breasfc- 

 ahield and on tho throat; the breast-shield margined below with a 

 dark brown-purple band ; hind part of the head and back of neck 

 ilark slaty, glossed with green ; smaller upper wing-coverts and 



