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HEMIPHAGA SPADICEA ( lath.) 



(Plate 21.) 



Chestnut-shouldered Pigeon Latham, Gen. Syn. Suppl. II, add. p. 375 (1802 — Norfolk 

 Island). 



Columba spadicea Latham, Ind. Orn., Suppl. p. LX, No. 7 (1802 — Norfolk Island); Temminck 

 and Knip, Pigeons, II, p. 1, pi. 1 (1808 — " Friendly Islands." — Errore). 



Columba gigas Ranzani, Elementi di Zool. Ill, 1, p. 223 (1821 — " Friendly Islands." — Errore). 

 Columba princeps Vigors, P.Z.S. 1833, p. 78 (Australia — errore). 

 Columba leucogaster Wagler, Syst. Av., Columba spec. 12 1827 — Norfolk Island). 

 Hemiphaga spadicea Salvadori, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXI, p. 238 (1893). 



HE Norfolk Island Pigeon, Hemiphaga spadicea spadicea, is very 



I similar to the New Zealand Pigeon, Hemiphaga spadicea novae- 

 zealandiae, but differs in having the hind-neck coppery or metallic 

 green, sharply defined from the chestnut back, the wings and upper wing- 

 coverts more greyish, less greenish, also the lower back and rump somewhat 

 more greyish. 



As r far as we know this pigeon was only found on Norfolk Island, the 

 locality " Australia " being doubtless erroneous. Like so many other birds 

 it became extinct on Norfolk Island, probably more than half a century ago. 



There are evidently quite a number of specimens in various museums, 

 many of which have never been recorded. I am aware of the following 

 examples : 



1 in the British Museum (Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXI, p. 238). 



3 in the Liverpool Museum (Bull. Liverp. Mus. I, p. 35). 



1 in my own collection (Proc. IV, Orn. Congress, p. 215). 



1 in Philadelphia, U.S. America (Cassin, U.S. Expl. Exp. B, p. 225). 



1 in Frankfurt a.M. (Hartert, Kat. Vogelsamml., p. 189). 



1 in Wiesbaden (Lampe, Jahrb. Nassau Ver. 58). 



1 in Bremen (Hartlaub, Verz. Museum, p. 98). 



1 in Lisbon (Forbes and Rob., Bull. Liverp. Mus. II, p. 130). 



1 in Leyden (Schlegel, Mus, Pays-Bas). 



1 in Vienna (Ibis i860, p. 422). 



1 in Naples, seen by myself. 



1 in Milan, examined by myself. 



The specimen at Tring was bought at the auction of the "Cumberland 

 Museum" at Distington. 



