31. l'Jll.ooiKXAS. 599 



o. Ad.sk. Duke of York Is. (Rev. G. Tweeddale Coll. 



Brown). 



/>. $ iuv.sk. Duke of York Is. Rev. G. Brown [CI. 



q. Juv. sk. Rev. G. Brown [C.].* 



16. Phlogcenas kubaryi. 



Phlegaenas erythroptera, part., Bj>. Consp. Av. ii. p. 89 (1854) 



(Caroline I.). 

 Phlegoenas erythroptera, part., Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 41 (1862) 



(Caroline I.). 

 Phlegoenas sp., Finseh, Journ. Mas. Gotlrff. viii. p. 131 (1875), xii. 



pp. 16, 17 (1876). 

 Phlegcenas ervthroptera ?, Finseh (nee Gm.), P. Z. S. 1877, p. 780 



(Periapt*), 1880, p. 576 (Ruk) ; id. Ibis, 1881, pp. 112, 115 (IV 



nape") ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 41 (1889) (Ruk). 

 Phlegoenas kubaryi, Finseh, J. f. O. 1880, p. 292; Rchmv. $ Schal. 



J.j. O. 1881, p. 75 ; Wiylesw. Aves Polyn. p. 55, n. 284. 



Adult male. Anterior part of tbe head, a band along the sides of 

 the occiput, throat, sides of the neck, and breast pure white : poste- 

 rior part of the bead, nape, and a band joining the ear-coverts with 

 the nape dark slate-grey ; mantle, back, and upper wing-coverts of 

 a beautiful purple-violet on tbe edges of the feathers, which are 

 otherwise blackish ; rump and upper tail-coverts glossy blackish, 

 with a slight wash of purple on the edges of the feathers ; lower 

 breast, abdomen, under wing-coverts, and under tail-covers slate- 

 black : quills slate-brown ; tail slate-black, the lateral feathers 

 greyish towards the base : " bill black ; iris dark brown, edge of 

 the eyelids grey ; feet dull purple " (Kubary). Total length about 

 10 - 5 inches, wing 6, tail 38, bill 0-8, tarsus 1-38. 



Female. Duller, especially the purple-violet colour of the back 

 and upper wing-coverts : rump, upper tail-coverts, and also the 

 inner secondaries with a bronze-olive tinge. 



Hah. Caroline Islands. 



* Phlogcenas sp. 



Phlogcrnas sp. inc., Grant, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 201 (Aola, Guadalcanar). 



PhlegcBoas spee. aondum descripta, Tristr. <'<it. Cull. B. p. 269 (Guadal- 

 canar) (1889). 



Phlogcenas sp., Salvad. Mem. II. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xlii. p. 63 i. <■/'/. Orn. 

 Pap.t Mot. p. 189) (1891). 



This species is only known from young birds collected by Mr. Woodford; 

 as remarked by Mr. Ogilvie Grant, they resemble the young of !'!•. mar- 

 (juri/tc. nnil Bhow already some white feathers on the throat and crop-region; 

 there is also an incipient white superciliary streak, which has escaped 

 Mr. Ogilvie Grant's notice; the upper parts are brown-chocolate, with t lie 

 edges of the feathers rusty : forehead dark grey, a rusty tinge on the anterior 

 part of the crown. Size somewhat larger than that of PA. maryarit<e. 



Huh. Guadalcanar, .Solomon Islands. 



". <J juv. ^k. Guadalcanal-. E. M. Woodford |C."|. 



