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Birds of Celebes: Peristeridae. 
2, etc. 10, 14)', Tarawai and Jobi (Bruijn 10)-, New Britain (Finsch 11); Duke of York 
(Brown 15). 
The Solomon Islands harbour a race of this species, C. mortoni Rams., of 
larger size, with a longer white sinciput in the male, or a broader extent of 
grey here in the female. 
In Celebes this bird seems to be very rare. In the Moluccas it is as yet 
known only from Ternate by a single specimen sent to the St. Petersburg Museum 
by Fischer. The Celebesian bird was thought by Schlegel, Briiggemann 
and Wallace to be larger than that of the Papuan Islands, but Salvador! ( 10 ) 
and W. Blasius ( 13 ) have shown that this is not the case. W. Blasius holds 
with Wallace that the Papuan form has a much more golden, even coppery 
metallic gloss in the green of the wings; but this difference is not appreciably 
shown by the Dresden examples, and a more extensive gloss of magenta on the 
neck and mantle of two adult males from Celebes may point simply to greater 
age. Most likely C. stephani is a recent addition to Celebes. 
It is easily distinguishable from its fellow-species in the island, C. indica, 
by its hazel-red back and lesser wing-coverts; by its hazel tail-feathers (except 
the outermost), blackish in C. indica; by the cinnamon bar across its lower back, 
grey in C. indica, by its rufous-brown under surface, and in the male by its 
sharply defined w'hite sinciput. 
GENUS PHLOGOENAS Echb. 
Compared with Chalcophaps, Phlogoenas may be easily distinguished by its 
tail of 14 rectrices, by its relatively longer tarsus, which exceeds the length of 
the middle toe and claw, and by the non-metallic character of the upper wing- 
coverts, except in some forms about the bend of the wing. The wing is rounded 
and somewhat short; in the Celebes forms the secondaries fall about 3 cm short 
of the tip of the wing. They are heavy birds, about the size of a Partridge, 
and always seem to be rare. Phlogoenas, which is included by Count Salvador! 
in the subfamily Geotrygoninae, is found in the East India Archipelago from the 
Philippines and Wetter to the Solomon Islands, and in Polynesia east as far as 
Carlshoff Island in the Paumotu Archipelago. 
* 282. PHLOGOENAS TKISTIGMATA Bp. 
North Celebes Ground-dove. 
a. Columba tristigmata Temm. in Leyd. Mas.; (1) Schl., Handl. Dierk. 1857, 408. 
b. Phlegaenas tristigmata (1) Bp., Consp. II, 1854, 88; (2) Wall., Malay Archip. 1869, I, 
413 (Likoupang). 
c. Phlegoenas tristigmata (1) Bp., Compt. Rend. XL, 1855, 207, 221, Nr. 263; (2) id.. Coup 
d’Oeil Ordre Pig. 1855, 45, 59, Nr. 263; (3) Wall., Ibis 1860, 142; (IV) id.. Ibis 
1865, 393, pt. (Manado), pi. IX; (^5) Schl., Mus. P.-B., Columbae, 1873, 158. 
