Columbidse of the Ethiopian Region. 261 



head and crown crimson ; the sides of the head and front of 

 the forehead scarlet and much wattled ; under tail-coverts 

 deep green with bright reflections ; iris red; bill dusky black 

 with the end whitish; feet greyish olive. Total length 9*1 

 inches, culmen 0*7, wing 6'15, tail 3"5j tarsus 1. 



Hub. Confined to the Seychelles archipelago, where it has 

 been procvired on the islands of Mahe, Silhouette, Praslin, 

 and Marianne. 



The description is taken from a specimen in my own 

 collection. 



2. Alectr(enas sganzini. 



Columba sganzini, Verr. MS. 



Furningus sganzini, DesMurs, Encyclop. Hist. Nat. Ois. 

 vi. p. 32. 



Funingus madagascariensis, Cab. v. d. Decken^s Reisen, iii. 

 1869, p. 43, Great Comoro. 



Alectrcenas sganzini, Sclat. Ibis, 1864, p. 300, Anjuan; E. 

 Newton, P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 300, 302, Anjuan ; Hartl. Vog. 

 Madag. 1877, p. 260, Madagascar; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1879, 

 p. 678. 



Ptilopus sganzini, Schl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 424, Mayotte ; 

 Schl. & Poll. Faun. Madag. Ois. 1868, p. 115, pi. 37 (good). 



Similar in general plumage to A. pulcherrima, but diflfers 

 in the forehead and crown being pale grey and entirely 

 covered by feathers, the chin and throat white, no wattles on 

 the head, but a large bare scarlet patch round the eye ; the 

 white of the neck extends further onto the back, that part 

 being more or less washed with white ; the under tail-coverts 

 are bluer, the smaller feathers only being partially washed 

 with green ; iris red ; bill dusky olive, slightly paler towards 

 the tip; feet olive-grey. Total length 10*5 inches, culmen 

 0-7, wing 6-7, tail 4-1, tarsus 0*9. 



Hat. The Comoro Islands and Madagascar, the latter 

 locality for this species resting solely on a single specimen 

 in the Paris Museum. 



In Mayotte, according to Schlegel and Pollen, these birds 

 are common in the virgin forest, where they may be met with 

 perched, in bands of ten or twelve, in the upper boughs of the 



