31. PHLOGCENAS. 603 



Columba erythroptera, Marti, (nee Gm.) J. f. O. 1854, p. 167 



(Marianne Islands). 

 Peristera erythroptera, part., Cass. TJn. St. Expl. Exped., Birds, 



p. 277 (1858). 

 Catenas erythroptera, yar., G. R. Gr. Cat. B. Trop. Isl. p. 44 (1859) 



(Guam, Ladrone or Marian Islands) ; id. Hand-list, ii. p. 246, 



n. 9446 (var.) (1870) (Marian Islands). 

 Catenas (Pampusaua) xanthura, G. R. Gr. Cat. B. Trop. Isl. p. 45 



(1859) (Guam, Ladrone, or Marian Islands). 

 Catenas (Pampusana) rousseau, G. R. Gr. Cat. B. Trop. Isl. p. 45 



(1859) (Marquesas I.!). 

 Phlegcenas erythroptera, part., Rchnb. Tanben, i. p. 41 (1862) (Mari- 

 anne Isl.) ; Oust, (nee Gm.) Le Natural. 1869, p. 261 (Mariannes). 

 Pampusanna xanthura, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 247, n. 9449 (1870) 



(Marian I.). 

 Pampusanna rousseau, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 247, n. 9450 (1870) 



(Marquesas !). 

 Columba rousseau, ScMeg. N. T. D. iv. p. 29 (1871). 

 Leptoptila pampusan, Schleg. N. T. I), iv. p. 30 (1871) ; id. Mus. 



P.-B. Columbae, p. 162 (1873) (Marianne Isl.). 

 Phaps erythroptera, part., Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 89 (1877). 

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

 Phlegoenas pampusan, Wiglesw. Av. Polynes. p. 55, n. 283 (1891). 



Adult male. Forehead, anterior part of the cheeks, fore neck, and 

 crop-region dull white, tinged with pale buff ; crown, occiput, and 

 hind neck rusty rufous, remainder of the upper parts dark bronze- 

 olive ; the feathers of the mantle and the smaller and greater upper 

 wing-coverts broadly margined with purple-violet ; quills brown ;. 

 breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts brown-black ; central tail- 

 feathers brown, the lateral ones grey, with a broad subterminal 

 dusky brown band: bill dusky; feet yellow f?) in the dry .skin. 

 Total length 10-5 inches, wing 5-8, tail 3 - 25, bill 0-8, tarsus 1*25. 

 (Mus. Paris.) 



Immature male specimens have the crown, occiput, and hind neck 

 dusky. Some specimens have the forehead, upper part of the head, 

 and hind neck dusky brown, with a few whitish feathers on the 

 forehead ; the white of the feathers of the fore neck and crop-region 

 less pure and dirty. (Mus. Paris.) 



Female (type of C. pampusan). Rufous brown with an olive lustre 

 on the back ; upper part of the head cinnamon ; the upper wing- 

 coverts with rufous edges ; quills brown edged with rufous, the inner 

 webs cinnamon towards the base ; tail rufous, with a broad sub- 

 apical black band on the lateral feathers, while the central ones are 

 uniform ; size somewhat less than that of the adult male. ( Mus. 

 Paris.) 



A curious individual variety has the base of the primaries white, 

 (Mus. Paris.) 



The Paris Museum possesses a very large series of specimens 

 showing every stage from youth (C. pampusan) to the fully adult 

 bird described above. 



Hah. Marianne or Ladrone Islands. 



