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tached to H. M. Surveying ship Rattlesnake, and lately sent home 

 by Capt. Denham, the Commander of the Expedition. They were 

 obtained on the Fijis, San Cristoval, Isle of Pines, and otlier islands. 

 Perhaps the most remarkable of these birds is a species of Cen- 

 fi-oj)us, which exceeds in size every other member of the genus Mr. 

 Gould has yet seen. The single specimen sent home is not fuUy 

 adult, as is evidenced by some freshly moulted feathers of the tail 

 aud wings differing in colour from the older ones. On account of 

 its large and robust form, Mr. Gould proposes to call this species 



Centropus Milo. 



Head, neck, mantle and breast tawny-white, remainder of the 

 plumage mottled brown and green ; some of the feathers being browa 

 indistinctly bauded with green, vvhUe others are entirely green, the 

 mottled hue being that of immaturity, and the green the adult 

 livery : bill black. 



Totai length, 26į inches ; bill, 2\ inches long by \į deep at the 

 base; vving, lOJ; tail, 14į; tarsi, 3. 



Hab. Guadalcanar Island. 



Remark. — The specimen is a malė. Uulike the other members 

 of the genus, this species has bare orbits, with the colouring of which 

 Mr. Gould is not acąuainted. 



For a fine species of Fruit-eating Pigeon from the Isle of Pines, 

 Mr. Gould proposed the name of 



Ianthcenas hypcenochroa. 



Head, neck, breast, and under surface vinaceous brown, with 

 glossy purple reflexions on the back of the neck, and a slight gloss 

 of the šame hue on the sides of the neck and breast ; chin, sides of 

 the face and throat white ; all the upper surface, wings and tail dark 

 slate grey, the margins of the wing-coverts and the feathers of the 

 back and upper tail-coverts glossed with bronzy green ; bill scarlet 

 at the base, yellow at the tip ; orbits naked and scarlet ; feet red- 

 dish flesh colour. 



Totai length, 16 inches ; bill, l^ ; wing, 9 i ; tail, 7 ; tarsi, 1. 



Hab. Isle of Pines. 



Remark. — This is a fine species, about the size of the common 

 Pigeon of Europe. It pertaius to the subgenus lanthcenas, the mem- 

 bers of which are very uearly allied to the birds constituting the 

 genus Carpophaga. 



Another pigeon from the šame locahty was named 



TURACOENA CRASSIROSTRIS. 



Head, all the upper surface, mngs and tail dark slaty black, 

 the feathers of the back margined with a deeper black ; a broad 

 band of grey across tlie lateral tail feathers near the base, and the 

 outer feather on each side tipped with darker grey ; throat greyish 

 wliite ; imdcr surface sooty, washed with grey on the sides of the 

 neck, the breast and centre of the abdomen. 



