Tr. Z. S. ix. 

 p. 223. 



386 ON THE BIEDS INHABITING [1875. 



Calcenas, G. E. Gray. 



151. Calcenas nicob.\eica. 



The Mncomhar Pigeon, Albin, Nat. Hist. Birds, iii. p. 44, pis. 47, 48, " Islands of Nincombar 

 near Pegu" (1740). 



Columha nicobarica, Linn. S. N. i. p. 283, no. 27 (1766), ex Albin; Cassin, Un. St. Expl. 

 Exped. p. 276. 



Ilab. Philippine Islands {Peale). 



Seen by Peale in the Philippine Islands, but afterwards in greater abundance at the island 

 of Mangsi. The same author states that the habits of this Pigeon, as observed on that island, 

 were decidedli/ arboreal. 



Geopelia, Swainson. 



152. Geopelia strlvta. 



Columba striata, Linn. S. N. i. p. 282 (17GG) ; v. Martens, J. f. O. 18G6, p. 24, no. 136. 

 Observed by Dr. v. Martens in the collection of the Military Library at Manilla. 



GALLING. 



PHASLINID.^. 



Gallus, Linnaeus. 



153. Gallus bankiva. 



Gallus bankiva, Temm. Pig. et Gallin. ii. p. 87, "Java" (1813). 



Hob. Luzon, Guimaras [Meyer). 



These Philippine examples agree with Malaccan. 



TETRAONID^. 



Perdicin^. 



ARBOKOpniLA, Hodgson. 



154. * Arborophila sp. ] 



^Le perdrix de Giiif/i, Sonn. Voy. aux Indes, ii. p. 167. 



ITetrao gingicus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 760, no. 41 (1788), ex Sonn,; Temminck, Pig. et Gallin. 

 iii. pp. 410, 733, " India, Coromandelia ;" Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 174, "Philippines?" 

 Arboricola, sp., v. Martens, J. f. O. 1866, p. 25, no. 142, "Philippines." 



A Philippine species of Arborophila is described by Dr. v. Martens (I. c.) from an example 

 he observed in the Military Library at Manilla. Temminck (l. c.) described, from an example in 

 his cabinet, the male of what he identified as the Perdix gingica. Lath. This specific title, which 

 Latham only copied from Gmelin, was founded by the latter author on Sonnerat's species (/. c). 



