'.) Cat. Coll. B. p. 37 (1889) 



2. Goura sclateri. 



Goura scheepmakeri, pt., Finsch, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 631 (specim. vivuin 

 in vivario Amstelodami, sed non typus). 



Crown Pigeon (Goura), If Alb. Sydn. Morn. Herald, 1876 ; Sclat. 

 Ibis, 1876, p. 360. 



Goura sp. inc., If Alb. apud Sclat. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 414. 



Goura sclateri, Salvad. Ann. Mas. Civ. Gen. ix. p. 45 (Fly River), 

 p. 207, sp. 86 (1876) ; I) Alb. Sydn. Mail, 1877, p. 372 ; id. Ann. 

 Mtis. Civ. Gen. x. pp. 18, 20 (1877) ; id. Ibis, 1877, p. 372 ; Sal- 

 vad. Ann. Mas. Civ. Gen. xii. p. 346 (1878); D'Alb. $ Salvad. 

 Ann. Mns. Civ. Gen. xiv. p. 125 (1879) ; If Alb. Nuova Gain. 

 pp. 310, 457, 458, 588 (1880) ; Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 199 

 (1882) ; id. Ibis, 1885, p. 356; id. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xlii. 

 p. 60 {Agg. Orn. Pap. e Mol. p. 192) (1891). 



? Goura albertsii (sic), Tristr. (nee Salvad.) Cat. 

 (Fly River). 



Adult male. General colour bluish slate-grey ; the feathers of the 

 back have a brighter blue band near the tip, producing a scaly 

 appearance ; crest uniform bluish grey ; lores and periophthalmic 

 region black ; throat bluish black ; lower fore neck and upper 

 breast purple-chestnut, changing into bluish slate-grey on the 

 abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts ; smaller and median wing- 

 coverts tipped with purple-chestnut ; a broad white speculum on 

 the wings, formed by the greater wing-coverts, which are broadly 

 tipped with chestnut ; the anterior one or two greater wing-coverts 

 chestnut ; tail uniform with the back, except the apical lighter 

 band : " bill grey ; feet purple-red ; irides red " (D'Albertis). Total 

 length 27"51 inches, wing 14-15, tail 10'41, bill 1*41, tarsus 3 - 3S. 



Female. Similar to the male. 



Young. Similar to the adult, but wants the chestnut spots at the 

 tip of the greater wing-coverts forming the speculum : " iris yellow " 

 (D'Albertis). 



Hab. Central and Southern New Guinea along the Fly and the 

 Kataw Rivers. 



a. cS ad. sk. Fly River, N. Guinea, Sept. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(D'Albertis). (Compared with the type.) 



