44 catalogue of the birds of the 



Calosnas mcobarica. 



Columba nicobarica, Linn. S. N. i. p. 283. 



Columba gallus, Wagl. Syst. Av. Col. sp. 113. 



Calcenas nicobarica, G. R. Gray, List of Gen. of B. 1840, p. 59. 



Goura nicobarica, Steph. Gen. Zool. xi. i. p. 122. 



New Ireland (Port Praslin). 



CALOZNAS ( ?) ERYTHROPTERA. B.M. 



Garnet-winged Pigeon, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 624. 

 Columba erythroptera, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 775. 

 Columba leucophrys, Forst. Descr. &c. p. 168 ; G. Forst. Icon, 

 ined. 136. 



Peristera erythroptera, G. R. Gray, List of Gall. B.M. p. 16. 

 Calcenas erythroptera, G. R. Gray, List of Colum. B.M. p. 64. 

 Phlegcenas erythroptera, Pr. B. Consp. Av. ii. p. 89. 

 Pampusana erythroptera, Pr B. Compt. Rend. 1856, p. 94/. 

 Society Islands (Eimeo, Otaheite) ; Low Islands (Bow Island). 



Peristera pectoralis, Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped. p. 205. 

 Low Islands (Carlshoff ). 



Var. Columba erythroptera, var. /3, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 7/5. 

 ' Ooeirao ' of the natives. 

 Society Islands (Otaheite). 



Var. ^ Columba pectoralis" Ellis's Icon. ined. 71. 



' Oo-oo widou ' of the natives. 



York Island or Eimeo or lmaio. 



Front, eyebrows, and all the body white. 



Var. " Columbe erythroptere a gorge blanche," Quoy & Gaim. 

 Voy. de l'Uranie, Zool. p. 35. 



Ladrone or Marian Islands (Guam). 



? CALOSNAS ( ?) EIMEENSIS. 



Purple-breasted Pigeon, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 629. 

 Columba eimeensis, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 784. 

 Treron eimeensis, G. R. Gray. 

 Society Islands (Eimeo). 



1 Calosnas ( ?) Stairi. B.M. 



Calcenas (Phlegcenas) Stairi, G. R. Grav, Proc. Z. S. 1856, p. 6. 

 pi. 115. 



Pampusana erythroptera, pt., Pr. B. Compt. Rend. 1856, p. 947. 

 Samoan or Navigators' Islands. 



