— 57 — 



the British Museum from that locality. Two, marked Samoa (? one tbe type of P. stairi) are readily 

 distinguishable from the large series of Fijian examples and fully confirm Dr. Fins ch's view that the Fijian 

 race is distinct. In the former the throat and breast are washed over with a darker vinous tint, and where 

 the feathers of the breast meet the abdomen they do not pass so distinctly into a white boundary- rim or 

 cross-band as in Fijian specimens ; wing considerably shorter, under side of it more extensively and strongly 

 washed with rufous; the bluish grey of the head not passed over the shoulders to the same extent as in P. 

 vitiensis. Of young examples, those of Samoa have head and neck of a darker rufous than those of Fiji. 



291.* Phlegoenas canifrons. 



Phlegoenas canifrons H.ctF. P. Z. S. 1872, 101 (type examd.); 7'V».sc/i. J. Mus. Godef 1875 VIII, 

 27 t. V, 1; Schmdtz, Ethn. Abth. M. G. 1881, 407. — „Mukrungukr' or ..Tramagonguck". 

 ' PeleiV Is. [Kubary etc J. 



292.* Phlegoenas virgo. 



Phlegoenas virgo llchmc. J. f 0. 1885, 110 (type exanul.). 

 ~^ PeleiC Is. (Kubary). 



293.* Phlegoenas yapensis. 



Phlegoenas yapensis //. et F. P. Z. S. 1872, 102 (type examd.) ; Schmeltz, Ethn. Abth. M. G. 1881, 

 391. — „Arolit" (Kubary). 



^ III. of Yap or Uap, Mackenzie Group (Kubary). 



294. Chaleophaps chrysochlora. 



Columba javanica Temm. (nee (•m.) Pig. 1811 pi. 2G. — Columba chrysochlora Wayl. S. A. Co- 

 lumbae 1827 sp. 79. — Columba javanicoroides Tcmm.? — Chaleophaps chrysochlora Gld. B. Austr. 1848 V 

 pi. 62; Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, 165; id. B. Trop. Is. 45; Verr.HDesM. Rev. Zool. 1860,436; Tristr. Ibis 1876, 

 264; Lay. ib. 1878, 276, 280; Oust. Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris 1879 July; Trhtr. Ibis 1879, 194; Lay. ib. 1880, 

 232; 1882, 530, 544; Sahad. Orn. Pap. 1882 III, 169. — Chaleophaps longirostris Gld. B. Austr. Introd. p. 

 LXIX; Marie, Actes S. L. Bord. XXVII; id. Ibis 1877, 362. — Chaleophaps timorensis Bp. C. R. 1856, 948. 

 — Columba oenea Jouan, Mem. Soc. Cherb. 1863 IX, 96, 233. — Chaleophaps — Jouan. t. c. 232. — Chal- 

 eophaps indica pt. Schl. Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. 1865, 265. — Chaleophaps chrysochlora var. sandwichensig 

 Ramsay, Pr. L. Soc. N. S. W. 1878 II, 288; III, 339; Tristr. Ibis 1879, 194. — Chaleophaps mortoni, pt. 

 Ramsay^ Pr. L. Soc. N. S. W. 1881 VI, 725; 1882 VII, 37; Sahad. Orn. Pap. HI, 562. — „Ahneun". New 

 Caledonia (Jouati). — nNaloupa", Aneiteum; „Tafoitu" Aniwa (Liylis). — ,,Mili-malla". Lifu: ,.Namatha", 

 Mare (Lay.). 



-J Neiv Caledonia (Gray, Verr.etc). — Loyalty Is.: Lifu, Mare (Lay.). — New Hebrides: 



Aneiteum, Aniwa (Tristr.', Erromango, Vate, Ambrym, Mallicolo, St. Bartholomew, Santo, Api (Lay.). — 



Also, Australia, Solomon Is., New Guinea, and certain Moluccas. 



295.* Caloenas nicobarica. 

 Columba nicobarica Linn. S. N. 1766 I, 283; Temm. Pig. Columbigallines 1811 pi. 2. — Columba 

 gallus If fli'/. Syst. Nat. Columbae 1827 sp. 113. — Columba gouldiae Gray tt llardw . 111. hid. Zool. 1834 II pi. 

 57 (juv.). — Caloenas nicobarica Gray, List. Gen. B. 1840, 59; Sahad. Orn. Pap. 1882 III, 211, 212. — 

 Caloenas gouldii f/'ray, II. L. II, 246 no. 9440. — Caloenas nicobarica var. pelewensis Finsch, J. Mus. Godef. 

 1875 VIII, 27. - „Laib'' (Kubary). 



^ Pelew Is. (Heinsohn, Kubary). — Nicobar, Andaman and Cocos Is., almost throughout the Malay 

 Archipelago and Papuasia. 



296.* Didunculns strigirostris. 



Gnathodon strigirostris Jardinc. Ann. Nat. Hist. 1845 XVI, 174 pl. 9; Gld. B. Austr. V pi. 76; 

 RM. Vog. Neu IIoll. no. 482. — Didunculns strigirostris Peale, U. S. Expi. Exp. 1848, 208 pl. 60; Gray, 

 Gen. B. II, 480 pl. 120; Hartl. Wiegm. Arch. 1852, 117; DesMurs, Enc. Hist. Nat. Ois. VI, 78 f. 73; 

 Gurney, P. Z. S. 1852, 87; Bp. Consp. 1854 II, 5; Gray, B. Trop. Is. 46; RM. Tauben 1862, 124 t. 275 f. 



Abh. II. Ber. d. K. Zool. u. Anthr.-Ethn. Mus. zu DrOiden 1890,91 No. 6. 8 



