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the bird is altogether of a deeper colour, especially beneath the body, 

 which is of a rusty colour ; the white spots on the sides of the tail- 

 feathers are very small, and unconnected with one another. 



Length 10" 9'", wings 5" 6'". 



Hab. Island of Nu. (B.M.) 



31. Ptilonopus greyi. 



Ptilonopus greyi, G. R. Gr. List, of Col. p. 4. 

 Ptilopus purpuratus, Pr. B. Consp. Av. ii. 19? 

 Hab. Loyalty Island (B.M.) ; Isle of Pines (B.M.). 



32. Ptilonopus holosericeus. 



Columba holosericea, Temm. Pig, t. 32, 

 Ptilonopus sericeus, G. R. Gr. Gen. of B. ii. 467. 

 Lamprotreron holosericea, Pr. B. Consp. Av. ii. 18. 

 Hab. Isle of Pines. (B.M.) 



33. Carpophaga (Ph^norhina) goliath. (PI. CLV.) 



<$ . Greyish slate- colour on the head, neck, breast and back ; wings 

 slaty-black, with slight green reflexions, and the middle feathers of 

 the wing-coverts of an obscure purplish-red ; outer webs at the base 

 of the primaries greyish-white, hardly appearing on that of the first 

 quill ; tail slaty -black, with green reflexions ; inner web of the first, 

 and both webs of the second to the fifth feathers, more or less of a 

 deep brownish-red, two middle feathers with only a space in the 

 middle of each web of an obscure brownish-red ; abdomen deep 

 brownish-red ; thighs and under tail-coverts rufous-white ; bill red, 

 with the tip black ; feet red. 



Length 19" 9"', wings 13" 3"'. 



Hab. Isle of Pines. (B.M.) 



The specimen exhibits the nostrils only partly covered at the base, 

 and the openings entirely exposed ; which has not been observed in 

 any other species of the family ColumbidcB, therefore might be sup- 

 posed to form a subgeneric division, with the name of Phcenorhina. 



34. Carpophaga (Ianthcenas) hypcenochroa. 



lanthcenas hypoenochroa, Gould, P.Z.S. 1856, p. 136. 

 Carpophaga (Janthcenas) hypoinochroa, G. R.Gr., List of Columb. 

 B.M. p. 24. 



Hab. Isle of Pines. (B.M.) 



35. Chalcophaps chrysochlora, var. 

 Chalcophaps chrysochlora, Gould 1 

 Hab. Island of Nu. (B.M.) 



'6&. Charadrius ? 



Charadrius glaucopus, var., Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 258 ; G. Forst. 

 Icon. ined. 124. 



Hab. New Caledonia. " Poemanghee " of the natives. 



