600 PERISTEKID.E. 



This species is only known from Forster's drawing and description. It appears 

 to be very similar to the females of Ph. stairi and Ph. samoensis, and probably 

 it is only the female of the bird, also from Tanna, described by Latham as a 

 variety of the Garnet- winged Pigeon. 



5. PHLOG03NAS ? RUBESCENS. 



Der Kokuh, Krusenst, Voy. pi. 17. fig. 1 (1814) (Wukahiva, Marquesas I.) 



(in Russian). 

 Columba rubescens, Vieill. N. D. xxvi. p. 346 (1818) {ex Kmsenstern) ; id. 



Enc. Meth. i. p. 378 (1823) ; Desm. Diet. 8c. Nat. xl. p. 371 (1826) ; Wagl. 



Syst. Av. Columba;, sp. dub. 12 (1827). 

 Pampusana rubescens, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 90 (1850) ; i<l. Compt. Bend. 



si. pp. 208, 221, n. 269 (1855) ; id. Coup oVoeil Ordre Pig. pp. 46, 59, 



n. 269 (1855) ; Bchnb. Tauben, i. p. 40 (1862). 

 Phlegcenas erytliroptera, part, Bp. Compt. Bend, xliii. p. 949 (1856). 

 Cakenas (Pampusana) rubescens, G. B. Gr. Cat. B. Trvp. HI. p. 45 (1859). 

 Pampusanna rubescens, G. B. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 947, n. 9451 (1870). 

 Phaps rubescens, Gieh. 77i.es. Orn. iii. p. 90 (1877)- 

 Phlegcenas rubescens, Wiglesw. Aves Polynes. p. 55, n. 285 (1891). 



" Tete et cou cenclrees ; cette couleur est plus foncee sur l'occiput que sur les 

 autre parties ; le corps, les ailes et la queue sont d'un brun-rougeatre ; les pennes 

 interieures de l'aile et la base des exterieures de la queue sont blanches. Longuer 

 totale huit pouces." ( Vieillot ex Krusenstem.) 



Hab. Nukahiva, Marquesas Islands. 



Only known from Krusenstern's account. 



6. PlILOGCENAS sp. 



Columba pyrrhacra, Forst. Descr. An. (ed. Licht.) p. 211 (1844) (Marquesas 

 Is.). 



Undescribed. 



" ColumhfB pyrrhacres sylvas [Marchionis Mendoza? Insularum] inhabitant " 

 (Forster). 



Mr. G. E. Gray (Cat. B. Trop. IsL p. 45) has with a query referred the 

 above synonym to Calcenas rubescens. 



7. Phlogudnas sp. 



Purple-breasted Pigeon, Lath. Syn. ii. 2, p. 629, n. 19 (1783) (Eimeo). 

 Columba eimeensis. Ghm. S. N. i. 2, p. 784, n. 60 (1788) ; Lath. 7nd. Orn. 



ii. p. 599, n. 21 (1790) ; Bonn, Tabl. Enc. Meth. i. p. 244 (1790) ; Bechst. 



Lath. Uebers. ii. p. 609 (1794), iv. p. 380 (1811) ; Tcmm. Pig. et Gallin. 



i. p. 465 (1813) ; Vieill, N. B. xxvi. p. 363 (1818) ; Steph, Gen. Zool. xi. 



p. 39 (1819); Desm. Diet, Sc. Nat. xl. p. 374 (1826); Wagl, Syst. Av. 



Columba?, sp. dub. 3 (1827) ; Schleg. N. T. D. iv. p. 28 (1871). ' 

 ? Colombe a collier pourpre, Tcmm. Pit/, et Gallin. i. p. 372 (1813). 

 Treron ?eimensis, G. B. Gr. Gen, B. ii. p. 467, n. 17 (1844). 

 ? Catenas eimeensis, G. B. Gr. Cat. B. Trop. Isl. p. 44 (1844) (Eimeo). 

 Phlogcenas erythroptera, part., G. B. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 247, n. 9446 



(1870). 

 Phlegoenas ferruginea, part., Wiglcsu'. Aves Polynes. p. 56, n. 288 (1891). 



" Length 14 inches. Bill black ; sides of the head beneath the eyes dusky ; 

 the forehead, throat, and fore part of the neck of a pale rufous or rather 

 vinaceous colour ; the crown and hind part of the neck dusky brown, with a 

 greenish tinge on the first ; sides of the neck red-brown, changing into a glossy 

 purple or lake colour as it advances downwards, uniting on both sides to form 



