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CATALOGUE OF CHARADRIFORMES. 131 
COLUMBIDA. 
COLUMBINA. 
GYMNOPHAPS, Sa/vad. 
albertisii, Salvad. Two. South-East New Guinea (Astrolabe Mts.). New 
Treland. 
The second specimen from New Ireland, a locality from which the species has 
apparently not been hitherto recorded, perfectly agrees with Count Salvadori’s 
description of the not quite adult female. Cf. Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus. xxi. p. 240. 
COLUMBA, Linn. 
grisea (G.R.Gr.). 
unicincta, Cass. 
leuconota, Vig. Six. India. Nepaul. Assam. 
rupestris, Pall. One. Ladakh (Sakti, May). 
rupestris, subsp. pallida, Rothsch. & Hart. Ornith. Monatsb. i. p. 41 (1893). 
“* Differing from the typical form by their brighter colouration, the abdomen and 
under tail-coverts especially being much brighter, the middle of the belly nearly 
pure white as against slate blue in the dark form, the colouring of the breast and 
mantle, moreover, being not so deep.” (Rothschild & Hartert). Habitat. East 
Siberia. 
taczanowskii, Stejn. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 624 (1893). 
“Similar to C. rupestris (i.e., with white wing and tai! band), but the grey colour 
darker, the entire breast strongly suffused with wine-purple, with a strong 
metallic gloss, which in certain lights changes to green; neck all round verdi- 
gris green with metallic gloss, which in certain lights changes to purplish.” 
(Stejneger). Habitat. Corea, Ussuri, and probably Northern China. 
livia, Bonn. Ten. 364,39. Orkney Islands. Holland, November. 
Algeria (‘Tilremht, November ; El Ateuf, April). Canary Islands (Hierro, 
March ; Teneriffe, St. Ursula). 
neglecta, Hume. 
melitensis, Lydékker. (Fossil). 
Calcaria, Milne-Edw. (Fossil). 
gymnocyclus, G.R.Gr. 
schimperi, Bp. Two. 64, 9. Palestine (Jericho, January; Marsaba, 
January). 
intermedia, Strickl. Seven. 264,29. Ladakh (Chanagund, May). 
Northern India (Bussahir, Nowghree, February). Southern India (Coonoor 
Ghat). Japan (Nagasaki, January). 
cenas, Linn. Two. ¢. England (Norfolk, Northrepps, February ; Hants, 
Mottisfont, January). 
eversmanni, Zp. One. North-West India (Punjaub, Sirsa, February). 
albitorques, Riipp. One. Abyssinia. 
guinea, Linn. Two. Abyssinia. 
guinea, subsp. uhehensis, Rehnw. Ornith. Monatsber. vi. p. 82 (1898). 
“* Differs from C. guinea in having the grey of the head, chin, under surface of the 
body and beneath the wings, darker, these areas being also darker than in the 
South African C. phwonota ; the reddish brown of the upper back is somewhat 
darker than in C. guinea, the lower back and crop is pale grey as in the latter. 
Total length, 350 ; wing, 220; tail, 125; distance between wing and tip of tail, 
35; bill, 21; tarsus, 25 mm. Habitat. Iringa, in Uhehe, East Africa.” 
( Reichenow). 
pheonota, (.2.Gr. Eight. 26, skel. South Africa (Transvaal, Potchef- 
stroom, June, September). 
mada, Hart. Bull. B.O.C., \x. p. xxxiii. (1899) ; id. Ibis, 1899, p. 311. 
é :—‘‘Bill yellow, red at base. Top of head and neck pure grey, merging into the 
colour of the rest of the upper surface, which is slate colour, with light grey 
