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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
few field-notes as to the colours of the soft parts,, which in 
this order are so brilliant and so evanescent. One hundred 
and eighteen species are thus mentioned, and many more inci- 
dentally referred to. Of the former, four may be spoken of as 
newly described. To this part of the paper succeeds a table of 
many pages, showing the geograpliical distribution of all the 
species, and a folding sheet doing the same with regard to the 
genera. 
Ptilmopus ccesarinus is a new species from the Feejees, allied to P. clemen- 
tmcBj P. apicaliSf and P. roseicapillus j hut the red crown has no bordering of 
any other colour. G. Hartlaub, J. f. 0. 1864 pp. 413, 414. 
Ptilonopus foi'tnosus, G. R. Gray,” from Macassar and Menado, formerly 
indicated as distinct (P. Z. S. 1860, p. 360) is now described as resembling 
P. superbus, but with a broader dark purple pectoral band, a smaller bill, and 
other differences. A. R. Wallace, Ibis, 1865, pp. 379, 380. 
Ptilonopus pecloralis, its confused synonymy treated. H. Schlegel, N. T. D. 
1865, pp. 208, 209. 
Colmnha palumhus, C. oenas, C. livia, and C. turiur, the habits of these 
four well-known species as observed in Miinsterland. B. Altum, J. f. 0. 1865, 
pp. 306-310. 
Columba polleni is a new species from Mayotte. The size of C. palumhus (?) 
and recognizable by its lemon -yellow bill and feet, as well as by the purplish 
brown-grey of its plumage, excepting on the nape, where the elongated 
feathers are blacltish passing into grey at the tips, outwardly bordered with 
white. H. Schlegel, N. T. D. 1865, p. 87. 
Fiminyus, Alectrooenas, and Erythrcena are considered unnecessary genera, 
the birds belonging to them being more properly referable to Ptilopus (seu 
Ptilonopus). II. Schlegel, N. T. D. 1865, p. 88. 
Qeotrygon albiventer is described as a new species fr’om the Isthmus of 
Panama j it is quite distinct from G. violacea, with which it had before been 
confounded (Ann. Lyc. N. Y. vii. p. 477), having the crown brownish-violet, 
the back and wing-coverts cinnamon-brown, and the tail and wing-quills of 
a darker red. G. N. Lawrence, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1865, p. 108. (A writer in 
‘The Ibis,’ 1866, pp. 120, 121, sqspects the supposed new species may be the 
same as G. chiriquensis.) 
Goura coronata minor is apparently a new species fr'om Waigiou, consider- 
ably smaller than the true G. coi'miata from New Guinea. II. Schlegel, 
N. T. D. 1865, pp. 192, 193. 
Ilenicophaps albifrons seems to have been described by Mr. Gray (P. Z. S. 
1861, p. 432, pi. 44) from a young bird. The adult is now described. H. 
Schlegel, N. T. D. 1865, pp. 193, 194. 
Carpophaga neglecta is a new species from Ceram, Amboyna, and Boano, 
rather stouter than C. perspicillata, and with the grey-blue of the head very 
light. This extends to the mantle, and only has a slight klackish shade on 
the upper part of the neck. II. Schlegel, N. T. D. 1865 f, pp. 195, 196. 
* Not published till after March 1865. 
f Bears date 1866 on wrapper. 
