86 novit ates Zoologicae XXIII. 1P16. 



Madeiran C. trocaz, merely adding that the female differs by having the throat of 

 a more or less deep glittering green, the wings of a dark brown, the flanks and 

 lower abdomen rufous brown, and a white terminal tail-band. No doubt this- 

 description of the supposed ? refers to what is now called C. laurivora, but the 

 name was not given to this supposed female in particular, but to the Madeiran 

 C. trocaz, and on the plate (3) the latter is figured above, C. laurivora auct. below.. 

 Columbe trocaz Heineken is quoted as a synonym, and the authors say, as an 

 explanation why they rename the species, as follows : " Le doctenr Heineken est le- 

 premier qui ait signale cette Colombe ; il l'a decrite en lui conservant le noiu vulgaire 

 de Trocaz, mais sans lui imposer le nom latin scientifique. Nous n'avons pas 

 conserve cette derniere denomination, qui nous a parn trop vague, et nous adopterons 

 l'^pithete latine de laurivora, qui nous parait tres-caracteristique, pnisqu'elle indique 

 une des principales habitudes de l'oiseau." It is clear that we cannot charge the 

 authors with having named the Canary Pigeon if they in the first instance described 

 the Madeira species and clearly say that they rename it laurivora because " trocaz '* 

 is not a Latin name ! 



C. laurivora is therefore a synonym of C. trocaz, and the Canary Islands species 

 with a terminal whitish area to the rectrices is nameless ; I therefore pixqiose for it. 

 the name 



Columba junoniae nom. nov. 



from its habitat : La Palma and Gomera, or, as they were formerly called, Junonia 

 Mayor and Junonia Menor (see Brown's Madeira, Canary Islands and Azores). 



Type ? ad. La Galga, Palma, 20. iv. 1889, no. 15232, H. B. Tristram coll. ; in 

 Mus. Rothschild, Triug. 



The other species with the slaty back and grey sabterminal bar to the rectrices 

 was probably referred to by Bolle in the Journal für Ornithologie, 1857, p. 329, 

 under the name of " Columba (Torcaza) Buvri/i Bonap. ? " but the description, which 

 was made up from verbal information, does not quite agree, and as Bonaparte in 

 Compt. Rend. Acad. Paris xli. and xliii., 1855 and 1856, gave the name buvri/i to 

 the Madeiran trocaz, this name can in no case be accepted. It was, however, 

 properly diagnosed and named Columba bollii by Godman, Ibis 1872, p. 217, from 

 Teneriffe specimens, and this name is unassailable. The type is in the British 

 Museum, and the description clear. Godman's spelling too must unfortunately be 

 preserved, though Dr. Bolle declared that the name must be spelled bollei, as his 

 name was Bolle and not Bollius. 



Columba bollei inhabits Teneriffe, La Palma and Gomera, and formerly also 

 Gran Canaria, where, according to Bannerman, it has disappeared with the laurel 

 woods. In fact, it is just as fond of these latter, and the laurel berries, as the 

 formerly so-called " laurivora," now junoniae. 



VI. ON THE NAME AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE CURACAO PIGEON 

 COLUMBA GYMNOPHTHALMA 



Having received the beautiful set of "Illustrations to the Birds of South 

 America " of Lord Brabourne and Charles Chubb, by H. Gronvold, my attention 

 was naturally arrested by pi. 14, the " Bare-faced Pigeon." This species is there, 

 and on page 15 of the " List of Birds of South America" called Columba corensis. 



