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Columba tri(;/onigera,Wag\. Syst. Av.,Columba,1827,sp.51; 

 Swains. B. W. Afr. ii. 1837, p. 212, pt. descr. ; Allen & Thomps. 

 Exp. Niger, ii. 1848, p. 41, Rollas Is. 



Stictoenas dilloni, Bp. Compt. Hend. xxxix. 1854, p. 1105. 



Stictanas guinea, Reiclib. Taub. 1855, pp. 59, 171, Suppl. 

 pi. 2. fig. 22. 



Stictoenas trigonigera, Reiclib. Taub. 1855, p. 60, pi. 221. 

 fig. 1250. 



Palumbus guineus, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. 1855, p. 49 ; Hartl. 

 J. f. O. 1863, p. 468. 



Very similar to C. phceonota, but the grey parts are gene- 

 rally slightly paler, especially the lower back and rump, 

 which, in the present species, is pale pearl-grey, inclining to 

 white. Total length 13'2 inches, culmen 0*9, wing 8*7, tail 

 4*6, tarsus 1*05. 



Hab. West Africa, from Angola to Senegal, and crosses 

 the continent into North-east Africa, where it ranges from 

 Uniamuezi, about 4° S. lat., northward to about 16° N. lat. 



My description is taken from a specimen in my own col- 

 lection labelled " Niger [Baikie] ." 



The C. guineensis, Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 381, I have re- 

 ferred to C. phceonota, so I do not include Benguela within 

 the range of this species. 



6. Columba phceonota. 



Le Ramier Roussard, Levaill. Ois. d^Afr. vi. 1808, p. 70, 

 pi. 265 (good). 



Columba trigonigera, Swains. B. W. Afr. ii. 1837, p. 212 

 (pt. nee descr.) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1860, p. 214, 1864, p. 359, 

 1868, p. 164. 



Columba guinea, Strickl. & Sclat. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 156, 

 Damara ; Layard, B. S. Afr. 1867, p. 256 ; Chapman, Trav. 

 S. Afr. 1868, App. p. 411; Woodward, Zoologist, 1875, 

 p. 4615, Natal; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 208, Transvaal. 



Columba ph(Bonota, Gray, List Brit. Mus. Columb. 1856, 

 p. 32; Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. 1856, p. 838; Buckley, Ibis, 

 1874, p. 384, Natal; Ayres, Ibis, 1877, p. 345, 1880, p. 109, 

 Transvaal; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 359; Butler, Feilden, & 

 Reid, Zoologist, 1883, p. 337, Natal. 



