36 Mr. C. Chubb on Birds from [Ibis, 



Zenaida auriculata noronha, subsp. uov. 



Zenaida noronha G. R. Gray MSS. List Birds Brit. Mus., 

 Columbse, 1856, p. 47 : Fernando Noronha and Para. 



Zenaida macidata (nee Gmel.) Ridley, Nat. Hist. Fer- 

 nando de Noronha, 1890, p. 479. 



Zenaida auriculata Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxi. 1893, 

 p. 384 (part, specimens h-v). 



Adult male. Forehead, sides of the crown, sides of the 

 face, throat, breast, and abdomen pale vinous, becoming 

 paler on the thighs and almost wbite on the under tail- 

 coverts ; sides of the body, axillaries, and inner under 

 wing-coverts pale grey ; outer edge of wing below slate- 

 grey ; flight-quills below pale brown ; lower aspect of tail 

 dark brown with greenish-white tips to tlie feathers ; crown 

 of head and nape slate-grey; hind-neck and sides of the 

 neck coppery red; back, wings, and tail pale earth-brown; 

 some of the major upper wing-covcrts and innermost secon- 

 daries marked with black ; hastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and flight-quills dark brown, narrowly edged with white on 

 the outer webs of the primaries ; lateral tail-feathers grey at 

 the base, w ith a subterminal black band and white, or greyish- 

 white tips, the outermost pair entirely white on the outer 

 wel-s. 



Total length 232 mm., exposed culmen 16, wing 132, 

 tail 82, tarsus 24. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. Wing 131 mm. 

 The male and female described were collected at Fer- 

 nando Noronha I^land by Mr. H. N. Ridley in August 1887. 



Melopelia meloda. 



Columba meloda Tschudi, Arehiv fiir Naturg. i. 1843, 

 p. 385 : Western Andes, Peru. 



Melopelia meloda Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxi. 1893, 

 p. 395. 



a. ? imra. Trujillo, N.W. Pern, 25 March, 1912. 

 "Iris whitish; feet red; bill black; cere ultramarine- 

 bluc" {Brabonrne). 



