654 Bkds of Celebes: Peristeridae. 



2, etc. 10, 14); Tarawa! and Jobi (Bruijn 10); New Britain (Finsch 11); Duke of York 

 (Brown 15). 



The Solomon Islands harbour a race of this species, C. mortoni Kams., of 

 larger size, with a longer white sinciput in the male, or a broader extent of 

 grey here in the female. 



In Celebes this bird seems to be very rare. In the Moluccas it is as yet 

 known only from Ternate by a single specimen sent to the St. Petersburg Museum 

 by Fischer. The Celebe.sian bird was thought by Schlegel, Briiggemann 

 and Wallace to be larger than that of the Papuan Islands, but Salvadori (JO) 

 and W. Blasius (13) have shown that this is not the case. W. Blasius holds 

 with Wallace that the Papuan form has a much more golden, even coppery 

 metallic gloss in the green of the wings; but this difference is not appreciably 

 shown by the Dresden examples, and a more extensive gloss of magenta on the 

 neck and mantle of two adult males from Celebes may point simply to greater 

 age. Most likely C. stephani is a recent addition to Celebes. 



It is easily distinguishable from its fellow-species in the island, C. indica, 

 by its hazel-red back and lesser wing-coverts; by its hazel tail-feathers (except 

 the outermost), blackish in C indica; by the cinnamon bar across its lower back, 

 grey in C. indica. by its rufous-brown under surface, and in the male by its 

 sharjjly defined white sinciput. 



GENUS PHLOGOENAS Rclib. 



Compared with Chalcophaps, Phlogoenas may be easily distinguished by its 

 tail of 1 4 rectrices, by its relatively longer tarsus, which exceeds the length of 

 the middle toe and claw, and by the non-metallic character of the upper wing- 

 coverts, except in some forms about the bend of the wing. The wing is rounded 

 and somewhat short; in the Celebes forms the secondaries fall about 3 cm short 

 of the tip of the wing. They are heavy birds, about the size of a Partridge, 

 and always seem to be rare. Phlogoeiias, which is included by Count Salvadori 

 in the subfamily Geotrr/goninae, is found in the East India Archipelago from the 

 Philippines and Wetter to the Solomon Islands, and in Polynesia east as far as 

 Carlshoff Island in the Paumotu Archipelago. 



4- * 282. PHLOGOENAS TRISTIGMATA Bp. 



North Celebes Ground-dove. 



a. Columba tristigmata Temm. in Leyd. Mus.; (1) Schl., Handl. Dierk. 1857, 408. 



b. PMegaenas tristigmata (1) Bp., Consp. 11, 1854, 88; (2) Wall, Malay Archip. 1869, I, 



413 fLikoupang). 



c. Phlegoenas tristigmata (1) Bp., Compt. Kend. XL, 1855, 207, 221, Nr. 263; (2) id., Coup 



d'Oeil Ordre Pig. 1855, 45, 59, Nr. 263; (3) Wall., Ibis 1860, 142; (IV) id.. Ibis 

 1865, 393, pt. (Manado), pi. IX; (5) Schl., Mus. P.-B., Columbae, 1873, 158. 



