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the British Museum from that locality. Two, marked Samoa (? one the type of P. stairi) are readily 

 distinguishable from the large scries of Fijian examples and fully confirm Dr. Fins eh' s view that the Fijian 

 race is distinct. In the former the throat and Lrcast are washed over with a darker vinous tint, and where 

 the feathers of the breast meet the abdomen they do not pass so distinctly into a white boundary- rim or 

 cross-band as in Fijian specimens ; wing considerably shorter, under side of it more extensively and strongly 

 washed with rufous; the bluish grey of the head not passed over the shoulders to the same extent as in P. 

 vitiensis. Of young examples, those of Samoa have liead and neck of a darker rufous than those of Fiji. 



291.* Plilegoenas canifrons, 



Phlegoenas canifrons II. et F. P. Z. S. 1872, 101 (type examd.); Fimdh J. Mus. Godef. 1875 VIII, 



27 t. V, 1; Sclvmelt^, Ethn. Abth. M. G. 1881, 407. 



PeleiV Is, (Kiihai'u etc.). 



„Mukrungukr' or „Tramagonguck" 



391. 



292.* Phlegoenas virgo. 



Phlegoenas virgo Rchnw. J. f. 0. 1885, 110 (type examd.). 



* I^eleiV Ts. (Kuhart/J. 



293.* Phlegoenas yapensis. 



Phlegoenas yapensis Jl ei F. P. Z. S. 1872, 102 (type examd.); Schmeltz, Etlm. Abth. M. G. 1881, 



„Arolit" (K'uhanj), 



Id, of Ya2> or Vap^ Mackenzie Group (Kuhanj). 



294. Chalcophaps chrysochlora. 



Columba javanica Temm. (nee Gm.) Pig. 1811 pi. 26. 



Columba chrysochlora Wagl. S. A. Co- 



lumbae 1827 sp. 79. 



Columba javanicoroides Temm.? — Chalcophaps chrysochlora Gld. B. Austr. 1848 V 



pL 62; Graf/, P. Z. S. 1859, 165; id. B. Trop. Is. 45; Ferr. et Dis M, liev. Zool. 18G0, 436; Tnsir. Ibis 1876, 

 264; X«//. ib. 1878, 276, 280; Ou^st. Bull. Soc. Blulom. Paris 1879 July; Trisir. Ibis 1879, 194; La,/, ib. 1880, 

 232; 1882, 530, 544; SahmL Orn. Pap. 1882 III, 169. — Chalcophaps longirostris Gld. B. Austr. Introd. p. 

 LXl'x; Marie, Actes S. L. Bord. XXVII; id. Ibis 1877, 362. — Chalcophaps timorensis Bp. 0. E. 1856, 948. 



Columba oenea Jonan, Mem. Soc. Cherb. 1863 IX, 96, 233. — Chalcophaps — Jouan, i. c. 232. 



Chal- 



cophaps indica pt. Schl. Xed. Tijdschr. Dierk. 1865, 265. 

 Eanua^j, Pr. L. Soc. N. S. W. 1878 II, 288; 111, 330; Tri.tr. Ibis 1879,-194. 

 llam,my^ Pr. L. Soc. N. S. AY. 1881 YI, 725; 1882 Yll, 37; Sahad. Orn. Pap. Ill, 562. 



— „Naloupa", Aneitoum;' „Tafoitu" Aniwa (Inglis). 



Chalcophaps chrysochlora var. sandwichensis 



Chalcophaps mortoni, pt. 



„Ahneun", New 



Caledonia (Jouan). 

 Mare (Lciy.). 



„Mili-malla", Lifu ; „Nainatha", 



'New Caledonia (Gray, Verr.etcJ. — Loyalty Is.: Lifu, Mare (Lay.). ~- 



Hebrides 



.^ 



Aneiteum, Aniwa (Tristr.), Erromango, Vate, Ambrym, Mallicolo, St. Bartholomew, Santo, Api (Lay,). 

 Also, Australia, Solomon is., New Guinea, and certain Moluccas. 



295-^= Caloenas nicobarica. 



Columba nicobarica Linn. S. N. 1766 I, 283; Temm. Pig. Columbigallines 1811 pi. 2. 



Columba 



gallus Wagl. Syst. Nat. Columbae 1827 sp. 113. — Columba gouldiae Gray ctlLwdw. III. Lid. Zool. 1834 II pi. 

 57 (juv.). — Caloenas nicobarica Gray, List. Gen. 13. 1840, 59; Sahad, Orn. Pap. 1882 III, 211, 212. — 

 Caloenas gouldii <7my, H. L. II, 246 no. 9440. — Caloenas nicobarica var. pelewensis Flnsch, J. Mus. Godef. 



1875 YIII, 27. 



„Laib" (Kuhary). 



Pelew Is. (IMnsohnJiid)ary). — Nicobar, Andaman and Cocos Is., almost througliout the Malay 



Archipelago and Papuasia. 



296 * Didunculus strigirostris. 



Gnathodon strigirostris Jardine, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1845 XYI, 174 pi. 9; Gld. B. Austr. Y pi. 76; 



Didunculus strigirostris Feale, U. S. Expl. Exp. 1848, 208 pi. 60; Gray, 



RcM. Yog. Neu Holl. no. 482. 



Wieg 



78 f. 73; 



Gurney, P. Z. S. 1852, 87; Bp. Consp. 1854 \l, 5; Gray, B. Trop. Is. 46; RcM. Tauben 1862, 124 t. 275 f. 



Abh. u. Ber. d. K. Zool. u. Antlir.-Etlin. Mus. zu Drcjdou 1890/91 Ko. 6. 



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