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152. Geopelia striata. 

 Columba striata, Linn. S. N. i. p. 282 (1766) ; v. Martens, J. f. O. 1866, p. 24, no. 136. 

 Observed by Dr. v. Martens in the collection of the Military Library at Manilla. 



GALLING 



PHASIANID.E. 



Gallus, Linnaeus. 



153. Gallus bankiva. 



Gallus bankiva, Temm. Pig. et Gallin. ii. p. 87, "Java" (1813). 

 Hah. Luzon, Guimaras {Meyer). 

 These Philippine examples agree with Malaccan. 



TETRAONID^. 



Perdicin^. 



Arborophila, Hodgson. 



154. * Arborophila sp. 1 



"? Le perdrix de Gingi, Sonn. Voy. aux Indes, ii. p. 167. 



? Tetrao gingicus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 760, no. 41 (1788), ex Sonn.; Temminck, Pig. et Gallin. iii. 



pp. 410, 733, "India, Coromandelia;" Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 174, "Philippines?" 

 Arboricola, sp., v. Martens, J. f. O. 1866, p. 25, no. 142, "Philippines." 



A Philippine species of Arborophila is described by Dr. v. Martens (I. c.) from 

 an example he observed in the Military Library at Manilla. Temminck (I. c.) de- 

 scribed, from an example in his cabinet, the male of what he identified as the 

 Perdix gingica, Lath. This specific title, which Latham only copied from Gmelin, 

 was founded by the latter author on Sonnerat's species (I. c). Sonnerat having 

 named the bird Perdrix de Gingi, it was inferred by Temminck that the species 

 inhabited the Coromandel coast. But it is pretty well ascertained that no such 

 species is known in India, or, indeed, in any part of continental Asia, nor has 

 it been discovered in Ceylon, or in any of the Malay Islands. Hence it may be pre- 

 sumed (also the surmise of Mr. Blyth, I. c.) that Sonnerat's Partridge was obtained 

 in the Philippines and not in Coromandel. The description given by Dr. v. Mar- 

 tens {I. c.) is too short to enable us to identify the examples he saw with the species 



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