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Differs in coloration, the form of the bill and the length of 

 the feet from other Fruit Pigeons. 



Type, Raperia godman^, sp. nov. 



Named in remembrance of Geo. Raper, who made the 

 painting and thus saved for posterity a sight of a beautiful 

 bird which was rapidly extinguished on account of its prior 

 lack of enemies. 



Raperia godmanji, sp. nov. 



Head and breast purple-mauve ; throat and upper neck 

 white ; above dark brown, with the edges of the feathers 

 lighter ; under-surface brown ; tail blackish ; primaries 

 brown lighter on the inside. Legs red ; eyes red, bare space 

 round them dark red ; base of bill and cere red, tip greenish . 

 Wing about 220 mm. ; tarsus 46, bill 27, tail 120. Collected 

 on Lord Howe Island in 1790. 



The above description is from the reproduction. 



Named in honour of Mrs. Godman, wife of Dr. F. D. Godman, 

 in whose possession is the original painting and to whom my 

 best thanks are due for permission to reproduce that painting 

 and prepare this description. 



TWO NEW SUBSPECIES. 



IXOBRYCHUS MINUTUS VICTORIA, Subsp. n. 



* 



Differs from /. m. dubuis in being larger. 

 Culmen 45 ; wing 140 mm. 

 Type, Geelong, Victoria. 



Ethelornis magnirostris whitlocki, subsp. n. 



Differs from E. m. magnirostris in being much paler above. 

 Type, Port Hedland, Mid-west Australia, 15th Oct., 1914. 



G. M. Mathews. 



