1863.] BIRDS OF TIMOR, FLORES, AND LOMBOCK. 497 



Total length 12^ inches ; wing 6 inches (the first quill moderately 

 attenuated at the tip) ; tail 4f inches. 



Hab. Flores (in the interior only). 



Remarks. — This fine new species is closely allied to Columba 

 cincta, Temm., of the adjacent island of Timor, differing princi- 

 pally in the delicate bluish colour of the neck and breast, and struc- 

 turally in the form of the first primary, which in P. chictus is much 

 more abruptly acuminated, A single specimen only was obtained. 



TURNIX RUFESCENS. 



Supra fuscus, subtus rufescens ; ]}lumis dorsi ni(jro maculatis et 

 luteo-rufo niarginatis, tectricibus alarum fulvo terminatis et 

 nigro maculatis aut lunulatis ; pectore rufo, lateribus nigro lu- 

 nulatis ; pectore et abdomine medio albescentibus ; alis fusco 

 einereis, pirima remigum fulvo marginata. 



Above dusky ; feathers irregularly black-marked, on the back 

 margined with pale rufous ; beneath rufescent ; throat and middle of 

 the belly whitish ; breast bright rufous, towards the side with black 

 lunules ; flanks with broad blackish bands ; wing-covevts with ful- 

 vous tips, with rounded black spots and lunules ; quills dusky, the 

 first yellow- margined ; the tertiaries mottled on the margins with 

 rufous and black ; bill dusky, yellow at base ; feet pale yellow ; iris 

 dark. 



Total length 5 inches ; wing 3 inches ; bill, to gape, -f^ inch ; mid 

 toe and claw -^-^ inch. 



Hab. Samao Island (Timor). 



Macropygia magna. 



Fusco-brunnea, nigro et rufo undulata ; cauda pallidiore, unicO' 

 lore ; pileo rufo ; subtus dilute brunnea, fusco et albo undulata, 

 tectricibus alarum inferioribus et remigum marginibus rufo- 

 castaneis ; tectricibus caudce inferioribus rufis, ad basin fusco 

 undulatis ; rectricibus duabus exterioribus utrinque in margine 

 interiore macula elongata schistacea. 



Dusky brown, banded with blackish and rufous ; tail uniform pale 

 earthy brown ; top of head rufous : beneath light ochre-brown, 

 banded with whitish and dusky at the end of each feather ; quills 

 blackish, with a narrow white edge ; entire base of the wings beneath 

 chestnut-brown, which extends on to the inner margins of the pri- 

 maries ; under tail-coverts rufous, slightly banded at the base ; tail- 

 feathers rufescent towards the base, the two outer feathers on each 

 side with an elongate slate- coloured spot on the inner margin ; bill 

 blackish ; feet pale pink-red. 



Total length 17 inches; wing 7g inches; tail 8| inches; bill, to 

 front, -j^ inch. 



Hab. Timor. 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 18G3, No. XXXII. 



