the Genus Macropygia. 221 



pale brown, with an appearance of bars from the feathers 

 having dark bases and a dark spot on the outside of each web. 



Hab. Australia. 



Mr. Gould has an interesting note on the habits of this 

 species (Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 114). The type specimen, 

 which is in the British Museum, is not adult, the lower 

 surface being transversely barred ; the tail-feathers are very 

 much pointed. This latter character, as well as the shape 

 of the rectrices, varies much in different specimens. 



5. Macropygia tenuirostris. 



Columba phasianella, Temm. PI. Col. 100 (Manilla), nee 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 129. 



Macropygia tenuirostris, G. R. Gray, List Bds. Brit. Mus. 

 Columba?, p. 39 (1856) (Philippines) ; Schleg. Mus. P.-B. iv. 

 Columbre, p. 109; Wald. Trans. Z. S. ix. p. 218 (p. 382) *; 

 id. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 288 (p. 594) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1888, p. 203 

 (Palawan). 



Macropygia eurycerca, Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 288 

 (Negros) (p. 594) et p. 952 (Mindanao) (p. 643), et 1879, 

 p. 73 (Basilan) (p. 651). 



Adult. Like M. phasianella, but more purple-brown above ; 

 the head, neck, breast, and under surface cinnamon -rufous, 

 with a vinous tinge on the occiput ; the mantle brown, 

 minutely freckled with rufous, and tipped with amethyst ; 

 wing-coverts more or less tipped with rufous. 



A specimen from Luzon {Meyer) in the same plumage as 

 the male, and marked female, is in the British Museum. Con- 

 sidering this specimen, together with the very emphatic state- 

 ment of Mr. Gould (Handb. B. Austr.) as to the identity of 

 the sexes of M. phasianella, and also my own experience of 

 M. rufipennis in the Andaman Islands, I feel constrained to 

 assume that the sexes are similar throughout the group. 

 However, there are specimens, which have no appearance of 

 youth, which differ markedly ; one of them, which perhaps is a 

 young bird, has the head bright rufous with a vinous tinge ; 



* The numbers in brackets after references to Lord Tweeddale's writings 

 refer to the ' Memoir.' 



