126 BULLETIN OF THE LIVERPOOL MUSEUMS. 
ALECTRENAS, G.?.Gr. 
pulcherrima (Scop.). Five. Seychelles (Mahé; Felicité). 
sganzani (Verr.). Two. Great Comoro Island. 
sganzani, subsp. minor, Berl. Abhandl. Senck. Nat. Ges. p. 493 (1898). 
“Closely resembling A. sganzani from Anjouan but smaller, the bill especially 
shorter and the abdomen more greenish. Wing, 154-158; tail, 96-101 ; culmen, 
133-143 ; tarsus, 244mm.” (Berlepsch). Habitat. Aldabra. 
madagascariensis (Linn.). Five. Madagascar, October (Antanarivo, July). 
[New Guinea]. 
No. 3, which is probably a young bird, has the back and wings of a greenish lustre, 
not indigo blue as in the adult birds, and is without the slaty grey tinge on the 
hind-neck, throat, and upper breast. 
nitidissima (Scop.). (Extinct). 
MEGALOPREPIA, Reichenb. 
formosa (G.2.Gr.). One. 9. Molucca Islands (Gilolo). 
magnifica (Zemm.). Nine. 1¢. Australia (“Rock Point”). 
On the stand of No. 3, 6, from “Rock Point,” Lord Derby has the following 
note: ‘Dr. Lfatham] supposed this bird to be his Columba wnea, or Nutmeg 
pigeon, in high or complete plumage.” 
assimilis (Gould). One. ¢. Northern Australia (Cape York). 
It is very difficult, if not impossible, to separate this northern race of MW. mag- 
nifica, without an accurate knowledge of the localities. Count Salvadori’s 
diagnosis is, ‘‘Similar to IW. magnifica but smaller. Total length about 14 
inches, wing 7°5.” He also says, under J. magnifica, ‘Specimens from North 
Queensland are smaller.” North (Rec. Austr. Mus. iii. No. 1, pp. 16, 17, 1897) 
gives Cairns as the southern limit of J/. assimilis, but we have seen specimens 
from Cooktown, which is considerably to the north of Cairns, which undoubtedly 
belong to the southern form. These specimens were, however, shot in winter, 
and may have possibly migrated from the south. 
poliura, Sw/vad. Four. South-East New Guinea (Possession Bay, October). 
poliura, subsp. septentrionalis, Meyer, Abh. Mus. Dresd. 1893, No. 3, p. 25. 
“Closely resembling WW. polivra, Salvad, but having the tail brownish grey beneath, 
the under wing-coverts and axillaries lemon yellow, and the median wing-coverts 
and the innermost tertials much less spotted with yellow. Wing, 160-173; tail, 
135-148 mm.” (Meyer). Habitat. Northern and Eastern New Guinea, and the 
Island of Jobi. 
puella (Less.). Three. 9. New Guinea (Lobo Bay, July). 
LITHOPHAPS, De Vis. (Fossil). 
ulnaris, De Vis. 
CARPOPHAGINA.. 
SERRESIUS, Bp. 
CARPOPHAGA, Selby. 
galeatus, Bp. 
{a. Globicera, Bp.). 
pacifica (Gm.). Five. @. South-East New Guinea. New Hebrides 
(Ambrym, June). 
The specimen from the New Hebrides is considerably duller in colour than those 
from New Guinea, in this respect approaching C. oceanica. The metallic colour 
is more of a coppery lustre, not bronze-green as in the New Guinea examples. 
Another specimen (=3506 Lord Derby’s Mus.), without locality, is somewhat 
larger and has the ashy colour of the head and mantle considerably darker, pass- 
ing insensibly into the metallic colour of the back, not sharply defined as in 
other specimens. It is possibly a different species. 
oceanica (Less.). One. Pelew Islands. 
myristicivora (Scop.). 
