780 DR. O. FINSCH ON THE BIRDS OF PONAPfe. [NoV. 20, 



secondaries are as in Pt. fasciatus, which differs in its purphsh 

 vinaceous-red vent-patch. 



16. Carpophaga oceanica, Less. 



One female, exactly agreeing with specimens from the Palaos 

 (Pelew Islands), except that the hind neck and front part of the 

 mantle are of a darker grey. Size the same. 



Not yet recorded from this locality. 



17. Phlegcenas erythroptera (Gm.)?. 



Male adult. Front and sinciput to behind the eye, and a nar- 

 row line bordering the sides of vertex and occiput, white, as 

 well as the sides of the neck, chin, throat, and breast ; sides of 

 head dull brownish, mixed with new white feathers, showing that 

 these parts become also pure white ; vertex and occiput slaty black ; 

 nape, remainder of upper parts, and wings dark-brown ; wing-coverts, 

 scapulars, and some of the mantle- feathers margined broadly with 

 shining coppery violet ; underparts and under wing-coverts slaty 

 black, like the remiges ; tail-feathers the same, but on the basal half 

 dark grey. Bill and feet horn-brown. A few feathers on the back 

 and shoulders are margined with rufous, as well as the outer secon- 

 daries and the coverts of the primaries, showing remnants of the 

 young plumage. 



Young (labelled female). Front, sinciput, and sides of head dirty 

 rusty-brown ; chin, throat, and breast the same, but mixed and 

 tinged with white ; vertex blackish ; upper parts not so dark brown, 

 only some of the upper tail-coverts with purplish violet edgings ; 

 underparts below the breast dark slate-grey ; remiges uniform slaty 

 blackish. 



Although it is very strange that, looking at the local distribution 

 of the species of these Pacific Partridge-Doves, the far western 

 island of Ponape should yield the same species as is said to occur in 

 the Tahiti group, I see no reason to separate the specimens before 

 me specifically from that described by Latham as the "Garnet-winged 

 Pigeon." His description answers pretty well ; but having had no 

 opportunity of comparing it with specimens of the true P. erythro- 

 ptera from the eastern islands, which are very rare in collections, I 

 have thought it desirable to add a mark of interrogation to my ap- 

 pellation, as on close comparison perhaps differences might appear 

 which are not to be ascertained by descriptions only. 



18. Gallus ferrugineus, Gm. 



Male and female. Of the specimens from this locality, the male 

 shows no difference from specimens from Sumatra, except that the 



