406 Ant. Reichenow und Herman Schalow: 
length 8,3; wing 5,2; tail 2,9; tarsus 0,8; bill from the gape n 
inches. Hab.: Island of Ugi, "Solomon Group. 
176. Spilotreron, nov. subgen. 
T. Salvadori, Ornith. Pap. a 3 1882 p. 51. 
Medium inter subgen. Thoracotreron et Jonotreron; cauda ut in 
Thoracotreron longiuscula, rotundata; capite cinereo uti in Jonotre- 
ronibus nonnullis; pietura reliqua propria. 
Typus: Columba melanocephala Forst. 
177. Thoracotreron, nov. subgen. 
T. Salvadori, Ornith. Pap. Pt. 3 1882 p. 37. 
Cauda rotundata; remiges primae apice minime attenuato; 
plumis gutturis integris, minime emarginatis, seu bifidis; mas fascia 
pectorali lata alba, ve] flava ornatus, foemina viridis, fere unieolor. 
Typus: Columba Rivolii Prev. 
Fam. GEOTRYGONIDAE. 
178. Otidiphaps nobilis var. cervicalis. 
E. P. Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. Vol. 4 Pt. 4 1879 P- 470. 
This species differs from Gray’s description of Q nobelis, in ha- 
ving a white or ashy patch in the nape, and in the uropygium and 
upper tajl-coverts being of a rich metallic green and not purple. 
I have only the original description to go by, which has prabahli 
been taken irom a mutilated skin. 
Hab.: Goldie River. (New Guinea.) 
179. Phlogoenas Salamoniis |!). 
E. P. Ramsay, Proc. Linn. S. N.S. W. Vol. 7 1882 Pt. 2 
P-, 299. 
Total length 11 inches; wing 6,5; tail 4; tarsus 1,3; bill from 
forchead 1. Bill brown, legs and feet carmine. Tail rounded, of 
twelve feathers. General colour reddish chocolate, brown above, 
slightly tinted with rich metallic violet-purple, which becomes very 
bright on the wing-coverts, and interscapular region; the primaries 
and secondaries, and the inner webs of the tail feathers dull dark 
brown; head chocolate colour without metallic refleetions, the sides 
of the face lighter, the throat of a paler tint; the chest, breast, 
and foreneck einnamon brown, lishtest towards the abdomen, a few 
feathers on the sides of the chest tinted with the same rich me- 
tallichue as the mantle and wing-coverts; the remainder of the 
under surface dark, dull, reddish chocolate-brown, deeper in tint 
and inclining to rufous on the under tail-coverts. The feathers of 
the breast being of a licht cinnamon tint contrast greatly with the 
dark chocolate-red of the remainder of the under surface. 
Fam. COLUMBIDAE. 
Hab.: San Christoval, Solomon Group. 
180. Chalcophaps Mortoni. 
E. P. Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales Vol. 6 p. 725. 
Total length 8,5 inches, wing 6 inches, tail 4 inches, tarsus 
1,1; bill from forehead 093 from nostril 0,42; from gape 0,9; mid 
toe (s. u.) 0,9; hind toe 0,6. — 
