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THE “SPOTTED GREEN PIGEON.” 
On the Type of the Spotted Green Pigeon, of Latham, 
in the Derby Museum. 
(PLATE I. Columba.) 
AMONG the species of Pigeon in this Museum, which must be relegated to 
Calenas, is a specimen bequeathed to the City by the XIIIth Earl of 
Derby, which had been acquired by him at the dispersal of General Davies’ 
collection. 
This specimen is the Type of the Spotted Green Pigeon, of Latham (Gen. 
Syn. ii., pt. ii, p. 642; 1783). It agrees well with the description, and also 
with the figure in the same author’s Gen. Hist., viii., p. 23, pl. 117 (1822), 
where, in Lord Derby’s copy of that work, it is noted in the Earl’s hand- 
writing that the specimen in his collection was formerly General Davies’. 
In the British Museum “Catalogue of Birds,” Vol. xxi., Count Salvadori 
has placed this species in an Appendix (p. 649) amongst the uncertain or 
unidentified species. 
The bird is undoubtedly a Calwnas ; and is certainly not an individual in 
the plumage of youth, as Wagler suggested, for it has the frontal knob 
apparently fully developed. 
On examining the large series of Calwnas nicobarica in the British Museum, 
no specimen, young or old, could be found in any way resembling our bird. 
Calenas pelewensis, also, shows no characters which suggest that Latham’s 
type could belong to that species. From the fact that there were two speci- 
mens in existence—for Latham notes that he examined a second in Sir 
Joseph Banks’ collection—we are inclined to the belief that the Columba 
maculata of Gmelin (Syst. Nat. i., p. 780, n. 52, 1788), should be recognised 
as a good species—Culwnas maculata. There is no locality on record for our 
specimen, but it is not improbable that it came from one of the Pacific Islands 
whence General Davies received many of his birds. 
Note on Turdinulus epilepidotus (Temm.). 
IN his valuable paper on the genus Turdinulus, in ‘‘ The Ibis,” 1896, p. 56, 
Mr. Ogilvie Grant states that, “In ‘The Ibis,’ 1865, p. 47, Blyth described 
Myiothera murina, a species said by the author to be founded on a specimen 
in the Leyden Museum, bearing the above MS. name of S. Miiller. It has 
already been shown by Dr. Sharpe (Notes Leyd. Mus. 1884, p. 174) that 
the only Myiothera murina, 8. Miill., in the Leyden Museum, is no Jurdinulus, 
but the Crateroscelis murina of his volume (Cat. B. vii., p. 590); and it is quite 
evident that Blyth’s notes must have been written from memory—hence his 
mistake.” 
Blyth, however, did not make the mistake here ascribed to him. On 
consulting his paper in “The Ibis,” for 1865, one reads:—“ The Derby 
Museum of Liverpool is rich in Philippine birds (collected by Mr. Cuming), 
and also in the avi-fauna of the Indonesian Archipelago. I went carefully 
through its collections in every class, and took many notes of the birds of 
S.E. Asia and its islands, which I transmitted to my friend, Dr. Jerdon. 
A few, apparently undescribed, species may be here noticed,* and a further 
selection of my memoranda, taken chiefly there,* and some in the Museum 

* The italics are the writer’s.—H. O. F. 
