36 BULLETIN OF THE LIVERPOOL MUSEUMS. 
The habitat of H. spadicea is, or was, Norfolk Island, and possibly Lord 
Howe’s Island. Our specimens, however, have, unfortunately, no locality ; 
but the description of the Chestnut-shouldered Pigeon of Latham (Gen. ‘Hist. 
Birds, viii. p. 31) fits our bird very closely. The name ‘Chestnut-shouldered ’ 
is by no means appropriate, for there is little more than a shade of that 
colour to be detected; while the author’s alternative of ‘chocolate-red’ 
applies more accurately, except that it may be more fully described, in our 
birds, as being overlaid with a dark purple wash. 
This species cannot be mistaken for H. chathamensis (Roths.); while it 
can be quite readily separated from H. nove-zealandiw, by the very distinct 
difference in the shade of the metallic green shield on the fore-breast ; as 
well as by the still more characteristic sharp demarcation of the rich coppery 
green of the hind neck from the chocolate purple band which crosses tie 
back, to be suffused on the scapular region. The head and neck show none 
of the purple colour seen in H. nove-zealand, both being of a rich bronzy 
green. Salvadori’s description (Cat. Birds, B.M. xxi. p. 239) correctly 
specifies the wing-coverts and secondaries, with the rump and upper tail- 
coverts, as being more greyish than in H. nove-zealandie. 
It seems remarkable that Mr. Cassin (loc. cif.) was unable to detect any 
“ differences sufficient to induce” even “‘a suspicion that there is any specific 
distinction” between the New Zealand birds, and Australian and Norfolk 
Island specimens, in the Philadelphian Gould collection, if the skins 
before him were authentically from Norfolk Island. A suspicion is raised 
in noting that some of his specimens are from ‘ Australia,’ where species 
of Heniphaga have very doubtfully, if ever, been obtained. In this Museum 
are several of Mr. Gould’s skins with undoubtedly erroneous localities, such 
as Australia for Norfolk Island, and New Zealand for Australia ; this may be 
the case in some of the Philadelphia specimens. 
Two of our specimens are, according to the labels, aviary birds, and look 
so; while the third, though so marked, is in such excellent and perfectly 
unworn plumage that it is difficult to believe that it had ever lived in con- 
finement. 
The Columba princeps of Vigors, which he described from two specimens 
in the Zoological Society’s Gardens in London, is by Salvadori considered 
to belong to this species. It may possibly be that the British Museum 
specimen, which, from the description in their Catalogue, looks as if it had 
been an aviary bird, is one of the types of C. princeps. 
The ‘Southern Pigeon’ of Latham.—Count Salvadori has, in his 
Appendix to Vol. xxi. of the British Museum Catalogue of Birds, entered 
(p. 641) Columba meridionalis among the doubtful and unidentified species of 
Pigeons. Among the birds which this Museum received from Lord Derby 
are three aviary specimens, which have been identified by Latham as his 
Southern Pigeon (Gen. Hist. viii. p. 28). One of these is the type of his 
“female or young,” Southern Pigeon, var. a, and is labelled by Lord Derby 
“Columba meridionalis, se ypso judice” ; the second is marked, “Dr. L. con- 
siders this an old male.” ‘These prove to be Zenaida zenaida, Bp. 
The third specimen is inscribed, “Considered by Dr. L. as a young 
male.” We have identified this as Zenaida auriculata (Des Murs). 
H.0.F., and H.C.R. 
