220 Major R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay on 



Mr. Blyth (Ibis, 1870, p. 73) is, I believe, responsible for 

 the statement that M. leptogrammica is found in Celebes. 

 This locality is doubtless erroneous. There is a specimen 

 from the Leiden Museum in the National Collection which 

 is marked Celebes. But it is evident that the label has been 

 transposed or that some mistake has occurred; for the 

 specimen in question does not even belong to the Malayan 

 form, but to the Indian M. tusalia race. 



Our next group is a large one, and is found in both 

 regions, one species, M. emiliana, Bp., being found on both 

 sides of the Straits of Lombock. 



Group B. — Plumage of adults uniform or nearly so. Pre- 

 vailing colour chestnut or cinnamon-rufous. Sexes alike 

 or nearly so. 



Section a. — Of large size. 



4. Macropygia phasianella. 



Columba phasianella, Temm. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii.p. 129; 

 id. PL Col. 100 ; Gould, Bds. Australia, v. pi. 75. 



Adult. General colour above chestnut-brown, below cinna- 

 mon-rufous, deepening into chestnut on the abdomen and 

 lower tail-coverts. Occiput metallic amethyst, with green 

 reflections ; a slightly viuous tinge on the breast ; primaries 

 dark brown ; under wing-coverts, axillaries, and inner mar- 

 gins of primaries rufous ; three outer pairs of rectrices with 

 a broad black band extending towards the base on the inner 

 web. 



According to Gould the sexes are alike. 



Iris blue with an outer circle of scarlet ; orbital skin 

 bluish lilac ; feet red {Gould). Wing 75 to 7*9 inches, tail 9, 

 bill 1, tarsus 1. 



Young. An immature bird, marked female (Port Molle, 

 Queensland, ' Alert '), has recorded : iris red ; bill reddish ; 

 legs and feet red. It is of a much redder chestnut, especially 

 on the crown, the upper wing-, and upper and lower tail- 

 coverts ; the mantle is browner ; beneath it is minutely 

 freckled with dark brown; the sides of the head and neck 



