148 Mr. Blyth's Commentary 



777. OsMOTRERON FLAVOGULARis ; O. pompadortt, Bonap. 

 Icon. Pig. pi. xi. fig. \, $ . 



Perhaps this is the true Columba pomj)adora of Gmelin from 

 Ceylon, founded on plates 19 and 20 of Brown's ' Illustrations 

 of Zoology' (1776), copied from native drawings. Both figure 

 and description, however, represent the back of the male as being 

 green instead of maroon like the rest of the mantle ; and it is 

 also described as "smaller than the Turtle- Dove;" so that a 

 Cingalese species of the same diminutive size as O. olax of the 

 Malay countries may yet remain to be rediscovered. The late 

 H. E. Strickland was disposed to identify O. malabarica with 

 O. pumpadora before either O. phayrii or 0. flavogularis had 

 been discriminated. In like manner, Mr. Layard identified 

 O. flavogularis with 0. pompadora when he first obtained it ; 

 and he remarks that its voice " is very like that of T. bicincta " 

 (Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1853, xi. p. 303). It may be remarked 

 that Brown represents the crown of both sexes of his bird to be 

 " blue " {i. e. slate-coloured, as in 0. phayrii), the cheeks vv^hite, 

 and the lower tail-coverts of the male to resemble those of the 

 female (as in O. flavogularis and O. chloroptera) , not cinnamon- 

 coloured as in the males of most species of the genus (including 

 O. phayrii and 0, malabarica) . 



778. Sphenocercus sphenurus (Vigors); " S. cantillans, 

 Blyth ;" Bonap. Icon. Pig. pi. v. 



779. Sphenocercus apicaudus (Hodgs.); Bonap. Icon. 

 Pig. pi. iv. 



Bonaparte (Comptes Rendus, xliii. p. 833) refers to a "S.pha- 

 sianellus, Blyth." I know of no such species. 



780. Carpopsaga sylvatica. 



Mr. Gould gives this species as C. cenea from Tavai (P. Z. S. 

 1859, p. 150). C. pusilla, nobis, from Malabar proves to be a 

 good species, or race of constantly smaller size. 



781. Carpophaga insignis (Hodgson). 



The Columba badia of RafHes from Sumatra is a well-distin- 

 guished race. 



