— 50 - 



Wiegra. Arch. 1852, 135: id. .1. f. 0. 1>^54, 170. — Caloenas erythroptera OVay, List Columbae 1856, (i4: 

 id. B. Trop. Is. 44. — Phlegoenas erythroptera lichb. Tauben, 18iJ2, 41 pt. 



liotr or La //firjtc, Pauniotu Is. (Cap/. Bdchcr. 



Gray assigned tlie two speciiiions in tlie Biitish Museum of this pigeon from Bow Island to 

 1*. erythroptera Gm. and P. leucophrys For at., but they appear to belong to a well-differentiated 

 and new species. P. erythroptera has the hinder half of the head and of upper neck black; the 

 Phlegoenas of Bow Island, as may be seen from one of the specimens in the British JNIuseum which is 

 not quite adult, evidently has the whole of head and neck, as well as throat and breast, pure white. In the 

 specimen mentioned the crown of the head is still strongly washed with rufous. 



287.* Phlegoenas pectoralis. 



Peristera pectoralis /Vn/e, U. S. Expl. Exp. 1848, 205 pi. 59: Hartl. "Wiegm. Arch. 1852, 116, 

 135; id. J. f. 0. 1854, 170: Vp. Consp. 1854 II, 89. — Caloenas erythroptera 6V«y, B. Trop. Is. 44 pt. : 

 id. H. L. II, 247 no. 9446 var. — Phlegoenas pectoralis Rchb. Tauben 1862, 41. — Leptopila erythroptera 

 Schl. Mus. P. B. Columbae 162 pt. 



Cftrlsho/t' Iff.. Paumotu Is. (Peale). 



What is the „Colu mba pectoralis" from Einieo of Ellis's Icon. ined. no. 71 with „front, 

 eyebrows and all the body! white" (Gray)? 



288.* Phlegoenas ferruginea. 



(?) Purple-breasted Pigeon I.nih. (ien. Syn. II, 629. -- (?) Columba eimeensis dm. S. N. 1788 

 II, 784; Lath. Ind. Orn. 1790, 598; Berk'it. Uebers. \\, 609; IV, 380; Vieill. Enc. M6th. J, 244. — Columba 

 ferruginea G. Forst. Icon. ined. 142; Ti/y/. Isis 1829, 738; Forst. Descr. An. 1844, 265. — Columba curvirostra 

 LiclU. (nee dm.) 1. c. note. — (?) Treron ? eimensis ^>ny. Gen. B. II, 467. — Treron ferruginea (•rai/, ib. 

 App. 23. — Osmotreron fulvicollis, pt., Bp. Consp. 1854 II, 14; Rchb. Tauben 103, pt. — (?) Caloenas 

 eimeensis Gray. B. Trop. Is. 44. — Caloenas ferruginea f'Vn//, t. c. 45, pt. ; id. H. L. II, 247 no. 9448. — 

 Phlegoenas stairi ? F. rt II. Drn. Centralpol. 1867, 147. — (?) Caloenas erythroptera ? Graij, II. L. II. 247 

 no. 944(i. — Macropygia rufa /.ny. (nee Rams.) Ibis 1880, 292. — ^Mahk" {Forst.) 



Tunna, New Hebrides (Forst.). 



289.* Phlegoenas stairi. 

 Caloenas (Phlegoenas) stairi &'my, P. Z. S. 1856, 7 pi. 1 15 (? Samoa) ; id. B. Trop. Is. 44 ; Sdat. 

 Ibis 185!», 327 (S.). — Caloenas stairi Gra;/^ List Columbae 1856, 64 (S.); id. II. L. II, 247 no. 9447 (S.). 

 — Pftmpusana erythroptera />>• C. K. 1856, 'J47 pt. — Phlegoenas stairi F.dll. Orn. Centnilpol. 147 pt. 

 (S.); iid. J. f. 0. 1870, 134 (Tonga); Grlijff\ t. c. 409 (Tonga); Fimch, ib. 1872, 49 (Tonga); Whitt>iee, Ibis 

 1875, 445 (S.) ; Lay. P. Z. S. 1876, 496 (S.) ; Schrkom, J. f. O. 1879, 407 ? — Phlegoenas samoensis Finsch, 

 J. f. 0. 1872, 50 (S.). — „Tu", Tonga Is. :Griiffe\ — „Tu-tautifa 6, ^Tu-aimeu" 9 Samoa Is. .U'hitmce), 

 ' tiamoa Is. (Whitmee, Lay.). — '.* Tomja Is.: Lefuka (Grilfft). 



290.* Phlegoenas stairi vitiensis. 



Peristera erythroptera Hard, (nee Gm) Ibis 1864, 232 (Fiji). — Phlegoenas stairi F. ft H. Orn. 

 Centralpol. 147 pt. (F.); Lay. P. Z. S. 1875, 151, 488 (F.); id. Ibis 1876, 392 (F.); AW//*, Pr. L. See. N. 

 S. \V. 1887 (2) II, 445 (F.) : Rchm-. J. f. 0. 1891, 127 (F.). — Phlegoenas vitiensis Finsch. J. f. 0. 1872, 50 

 (F.). — Leptopila stairi .SV///. Mus. P. B. Columbae 1873, 162 (F.) — „Quau'- ^Griiffc), ^Ngilu" (Lay.). 



Fiji Is. : Ovalau, Wakaia, Mokani, Vanua Levu, Taviuni, Viti Leva (Griife, Lay.). 



It is not perfectly certain from which of the three island-groups of Central Polynesia P. stairi 

 came, though Gray opined that the Samoa Islands were its habitat, as the type was included in a collection 

 lormed there by the Rev. J. B. Stair. Dr. Finsch considers that the plate (P. Z. S. 185(5 pi 115) re- 

 Bembles Tongan specimens, whicli he distinguishes from those of Samoa by their inucli darker throat and 

 upper breast of vinous rusty brown passing into rusty isabelline yellowish on the lower breast, and by a 

 greater length of wing (J. f. 0. 1872. 49). He suggests, therefore, that the Tongan form should be known 

 as the true P. stairi and the Samoan one as P. samoensis. It would first be desirable that specimens 

 from Tonga be compared with the type of P. stairi, but, unfortunately, there appear to be no specimens in 



