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ORNITHOLOGY. 



feet not so pure yellow. Throat white ; entire other plumage, dark 

 bluish ash or slate-color. 



In this plumage, this bird is figured in Voy. Astrolabe, Birds, Plate 

 XXVIII. 



Younger? Like the preceding two birds in general color and other 

 characters, but witli the head above dull chestnut. 



Hab. — Feejee Islands. Celebes? Specimen in Nat. Mus. Wash- 

 ington. 



The specimen above described as the adult of this handsome Pigeon, 

 is in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 

 phia, and is labelled as coming from the Celebes. Another specimen, 

 very nearly in the plumage described and figured in the Zoology of the 

 Voyage of the Astrolabe, as above cited, is in the collection of the Ex- 

 pedition, and was obtained at the Feejee Islands. 



This bird belongs more properly to typical Columha, than to the 

 genus Carpophaga. It has been properly assigned by Reichenbach to 

 his genus Janthaenas, and is congeneric with Cohimha janthina, metal- 

 lica, and others of the same group. 



Respecting this bird, Mr. Peale observes : 



" Not uncommon at the Feejee Islands. We observed them during 

 the month of J une, in parties of three or four, and a few solitary, from 

 which we were led to the conclusion that it was about the last of the 

 breeding season, the parties being generally composed of two old and 

 two young birds. The figure in the Zoology of the Voyage of the 

 Astrolabe, appears to have been taken from a young male. A female 

 measured, when killed, fourteen and a half inches long, and twenty- 

 four and three-fourths inches across the wings ; irides yellowish-brown ; 

 eyelids and feet dusky lake-red ; bill black." 



2. COLUMBA CASTANEICEPS, PeClU. 



Columba castaneiceps, Peale, Zool. U. S. Exp. Exp. Vinceunes, Birds, p. 187 (first 

 edition, 1848). 



Atlas, Ornithology, Plate XXIII. Adult ? 



