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Section b. — Of small size. 

 Confined to the Australian Region. 



10. Macropygia rufa. 



Macropijgia rufa, E. P. Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 

 ii. p. 287 (1878) (Havannah Harbour, Sandwich I.) ; id. 

 Ibis, 1882, p. 314 ; Tristr. Ibis, 1879, p. 194. 



Adult male (Vate, New Hebrides, Mus. Tristr.). Above 

 chestnut-brown, browner on the upper tail-coverts : beneath 

 paler and more hazel; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 bright rufous ; tail beneath pale chestnut, three outer pairs 

 of rectrices buff, with a broad band across the centre of the 

 feathers and extending towards the base of the inner web. 

 Iris orange ; bill black ; legs dull red. Food, seeds (Layard) . 



Another specimen (Erromanga, Mus. Salv. and Godm.) is 

 somewhat duller in plumage and is said to have had the iris 

 yellow ; bill black ; feet red. 



Adult female (Tanna, Mus. Salv. and Godm.). Like the 

 male, but paler and less rufous above : beneath a uniform 

 cinnamon-brown, more rufous on the under tail- coverts ; 

 the feathers of the breast black at the base, giving it a 

 mottled appearance, and forked as in some species of Ptilo- 

 nopus. Iris yellow ; feet cherry. Food, berries (Richards) . 



Another specimen from Aneiteum is like the last, but 

 darker above, more fawn-colour below, some of the breast- 

 feathers freckled with white ; the lower tail-coverts rufous. 

 Wing 59 to 6-3 inches, tail 6'6 to 7'3, tarsus 0'8 to 0*9, 

 bill 0-7 to 0-8. 



Hah. New Hebrides. 



I think there is little doubt that all these specimens 

 belong to the same species. 



Mr. Layard has suggested that this species is the Columba 

 ferruginea, Forster, said to have come from Tanna ; but from 

 the description of that bird in the ' Descr. Anim.' it is evi- 

 dently Treron fulvicollis with a wrong locality. 



11. Macropygia mackinlayi. 



Macropygia mackinlayi, E. P. Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. 

 S. W. ii. p. 286 (1878) (Tanna). 



