collected in Dtitch New Guinea. 315 



*Eutrygon terrestris. 



Eutrygon terrestris Gray ; Salvad. Cut. xxi. p. 609 (1893). 



Trugon terrestris van Oort, p, 62 (1909), 



A male of the tj'pical western form of this Gronnd-Dove 

 is recorded from Etna Bay. On the Mimika the following 

 subspecies occurs and ranges to South-east New Guinea. 



Eutrygon terrestris leucopareia. 



Kutrygon leucopareia Meyer; Salvad. Cat. xxi, p. 610 

 (1893). 



Trugon terrestris leucopareia Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. xx, 

 p. 480 (1913). 



a-c. S ? • Mimika River, 18th Feb., 11th April & 4th 

 May, 1910. [Nos. 1072, 1128, 1150, G. C. S.] 



d-f. c? ? • Parimau, Mimika River, 21st & 22nd Sept. and 

 17th Dec. 1910. [Nos. 224, 235, & 751, C. H. B. G.] 



g. $ . Canoe Camp, Setakwa River, 17th Nov. 1912. 

 [C.B.K.] 



Iris crimson, red, or orange; bill, terminal half pale fleshy-- 

 white, basal portion dull plumbeous or dark slate-colour; 

 feet flesh-colour. 



I have retained the generic name Eutrygon as modified by 

 Sclater, Trugon {=Trygon) being preoccupied by Brehm 

 for the extinct Passenger-Pigeon Ectopistes migratorius. 



Mr. Claude Grant found this remarkable Ground-Pigeon 

 tolerably plentiful. It had much the same habits as Henico" 

 pJiaps alUfrons, but was never observed to perch in trees. 



«^ Otidiphaps nobilis. 



Otidiphaps nobilis Gould ; Salvad. Cat, xxi. p. 611 (1893); 

 van Oort, p. 62 (1909) ; Ogilvie-Grant, P. & P. p. 294 (1912) ; 

 id. Ibis, 1913, p. 105 ; Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. xx. p. 481 

 (1913). 



a. ? . Upper Mimika River, 18th Feb. 1910. [No. 

 1065, G. C. S.] 



1), c. (S et ^ imm. Parimau, Mimika River, 5th Sept. & 

 12th Nov. 1910. [Nos. 131, C.H.B. G., &160d, G. C.S.-] 



