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ORNITHOLOGY. 



Mr. Peale gives the dimensions of this bird : 



" Total length, sixteen and one-fourth inches ; extent of the wings, 

 twenty-six and one-eighth inches," and observes that this species is 

 " strictly arboreal, and was principally found in the dense forests 

 which cover the mountains of Upolu, one of the Saraoan Islands." 



Like the preceding, this bird belongs to the group designated as the 

 genus Jantliaenas, by Eeichenbach, which is adopted by Bonaparte, in 

 Conspectus Avium, vol. II, p. 44 (Leyden, 1857). 



3. COLTJMBA FASCIATA, Say. 



Columha fasciata, Say, in Long's Exp. IT, p. 10 (1823). 

 Volumha monilia, VlGORS. 



Aud. B. of Am. Plate CCCLXVII ; oct. ed. IV, Plate CCLXXIX ; 

 Bonap. Am. Orn. I, plate VIII, fig. 3. 



This fine species is mentioned by the naturalists of the Expedition 

 as having been frequently met with in Oregon, and occasionally in 

 large numbers. This bird belongs to a minor group of Columha, desig- 

 nated by Reichenbach as the genus Chloroenas, which includes also 

 the species immediately succeeding. 



4. CoLUMBA ARAUCANA, Lesson. 



Columha araucana, Lesson, Voy. Coquille, I, p. 70G (1826). 

 Columha fleuisia, Temm. PI. Col. IV (liv. 86, about 1830). 

 Columha Fltzvoiji, King, Zool. Jour. IV, p. 92 (1828). 



Voy. Coquille, Ois. Plate XL ; Temm. PL Col. 502. 



A handsome and abundant bird of Chili, and of other countries of 

 Western South America, of which numerous specimens are in the 

 collection of the Expedition. 



