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Wiegm. Arch. 1852, 135; id. J. f. O. 1854, 170. 

 ul. B. Trop. Is. M. — 



Caloenas erythroptera Orai/^ List Columbae 1856, 64; 



— Phlegoenas erythroptera Eo/ih. Tauben, 1862, 41 pt. 

 Jioir or JLa irnrpej Paumotu Is. (Capt. lUhlm-). 



Gray assigned the two spccirTicns in the British Museum of this pigeon from Bow Island to 

 r. erythroptera Gm. and P. leucophrys Forst., but they appear to belong to a well-differentiated 

 and new species. P. erythroptera has the hinder half of the head and of upper neck black; the 

 Phlegoenas of Bow Island, as may be seen from one of the specimens in the British Museum which is 

 not quite adult, evidently has the whole of head and neck, as well as throat and breast, pure white. In the 

 specimen mentioned the crown of the head is still strongly washed with rufous. 



287.* Phlegoenas pectoralis. 



Peristera pectoralis 7VWe, U. S. Expl. Exp. 1848, 205 pi. 59; IJartl Wiegm. Arch. 1852, 116, 

 135; id. J. f. 0. 1854, 170; Bp. Consp. 1854 II, 89. -— Caloenas erythroptera Oray^ B. Trop. Is. 44 pt. ; 



id. IL L. II, 247 no. 9446 var. 



Phlegoenas pectoralis Rchh, Tauben 1862, 41. 



Leptopila erythroptera 



SchL Mus. P. B. Columbae 162 pt. 



Carlshoff Id.^ Paumotu Is. (Peale), 



What is the „Columba pectoralis" from Eimeo of Ellis's Icon. ined. no. 71 with Jront, 



eyebrows and all the body! white" (Gray)? 



288.'^ Phlegoenas ferruginea. 



(?) Purple-breasted Pigeon Lath. Gen. Syn. II, 629. 



(?) Columba eimeensis 6%. S. N. 1788 



II, 784; Lath. Ind. Orn. 1790, 598; Bcchd. Uebers. II, 609; IV, 380; VieilL^'Ew. Metli., I, 244. 

 ferruginea G. Forst. Icon. ined. 142; Wagl. Isis 1829, 738; 7^'orst. Descr. An. 1844, 265. 



Columba 



Licht. (ncc Gni.) 1. c. note. 

 App. 23. 



(?) Treron ? eimensis Oray., Gen. 13. II, 467. 



Columba curvirostra 

 Treron ferruginea Orai/^ ib. 



Osmotreron fulvicollis, pt., Jip. Consp. 1854 II, 14; Rchb. Tauben 103, pt. — (?) Caloenas 

 eimeensis Gmy, B. Trop. Is. 44. — Caloenas ferruginea Gray^ t. c. 45, pt. ; id. II. L. II, 247 no. 9448. 

 Phlegoenas stairi ? F. (it TL Orn. Centralpol. 1867, 147. — (?) Caloenas erythroptera ? Gray, II. L. II, 247 

 no. 9440. — Macropygia rufa Lay. (nee Hams:) Ibis 1880, 292. — „Mahk" (Forst.) 



T(fnna^ New Hebrides (Forst.). 



289.'^= Phlegoenas stairi. 



Caloenas (Phlegoenas) stairi Gray^ P. Z. S. 1856, 7 pi. 115 (? Samoa) ; id. B. Trop. Is. 44; 6'clat. 

 Ibis 1859, 327 (S.). — Caloenas stairi Gray^ List Columbae 1856, 64 (S.); v>/. II. L. II, 247 no. 9447 (S.). 

 P^mpusana erythroptera np. 0. R. 1856, 947 pt. — Phlegoenas stairi F.et II Orn. Centralpol. 147 pt. 

 (S.); iid. J. f. 0. 1870, 134 (Tonga); Grliffe^ t. c. 409 (Tonga); J^msch, ib. 1872, 49 (Tonga); TFAitmeo, Ibis 

 1875, 445 (S.); Lay. P. Z. S. 1876, 496 (S.) ; Nehrkom, J. f. 0. 1879,407? — Phlegoenas samoensis Ku,v6'/^, 



J. f. 0. 1872, 50 (S.). 



Satnoa Is- (Whitmee, Lay.). 



„Tu", Tonga Is. (Graje). — 



— ? Tonya Is> : Lcfuka (Graf a). 



„Tu-tautifa S, „Tu-aimeu" 2 Samoa Is. (Whitmee). 



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290.^ Phlegoenas stairi vitiensis. 



Peristera erythroptera I/aril. (nee Gm.) Ibis 1864, 232 (Fiji). — Phlegoenas stairi F. et IL Orn. 

 Centralpol. 147 pt. (F,); Lay.?. Z. S. 1875, 151, 438 (F.); id. Ibis 1876, 392 (F.); North^ Pr. L. Soc. K 

 S. W. 1887 (2) 11, 445 (F.); Rchnw. J. f. 0. 1891, 127 (F.). — Phlegoenas vitiensis Finsch, J. f. 0. 1872, 50 

 (F.). — Leptopila stairi Schl. Mus. P. B. Columbae 1873, 162 (F.) — „auilu" (Grliffe), „Ngilu" (Lay.). 



Fiji Is. ; Ovalau, Wakaia, Mokani, Vanua Levu, Tavinni, Yiti Lcvu (Grllfe^ Lay.). 



It is not perfectly certain from which pf the three island-gronps of Central Polynesia P. stairi 

 came though Gray opined tbat the Samoa Islands were its habitat, as the type was included in a collection 

 lormed there by the Rev. J. B. Stair. Dr. Fins eh considers that the plate (P. Z. S. 1856 pi 115) re- 

 sembles Tongan specimens, which he distinguishes from those of Samoa by their much darker throat and 

 upper breast of vinous rusty brown passing into rusty isabelline yellowish on the lower breast, and by a 

 "•reater len^-th of wing (J. f. 0. 1872, 49). lie, suggests, therefore, that the Tongan form should be known 

 as the true P. stairi and the Samoan one as P. s a mo en sis. It would first be desirable that specimens 

 from Ton^a be compared with the type of P. stairi, but, unfortunately, there appear to be no specimens in 



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