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Birds of Celebes: Peristeridae. 
behind the ear-coverts, and the race has been named himacnlata by Count 
balvadori, who points out other differences. The two are very distinct from 
any other members of the genus. Their chief affinities seem to be with the 
agger-wound Pigeons (Dolchstichtauben in German') of the Philippines and 
Papuasia, especially P. rujigula (J. & P.) of the latter subregion. These mav be 
recognised by the patch of bristly feathers of a red colour on the upper breast, 
by the grey bars formed by the tips of their upper wing-coverts, and by other points. 
e genus Phlogoenas is found only in part of the East India Islands and 
Polynesia, the western confines of its range being Celebes and the PhiHppines • 
then comes a break, for it is not known in the Moluccas, but reoccui’s again 
in Papuasia as far as the Solomon Islands and, apparently, Tanna in the New 
Hebrides, passing eastward across the Pacific to the Paumotu Islands (Bow) and 
to Uap and Ruk in the Carolines. A species, which Count Salvadori refers 
to this genus with a query, is further found in Wetter and Timor. Count 
Salvadori enumerates 20 species, not counting four of doubtful validity; to 
t ese he appends eight others as unidentified. The genus is a difficult one for 
t e student, some of the species not having been met with since the time of 
Cook and no specimens being now extant in collections. As a rule, indeed, 
fact that 8 of Salvadori s 20 good species are represented in the British 
Museum by only 1 specimen each, 2 by 2 specimens each, and 4 by none. 
* 283. PHLOGOENAS BIMACULATA Salvad. 
South Celebes Ground-dove. 
“■ J- '■ O. 1866, 
284 pt., (Ill) Gould (nec Bp.), B. Asia VI, pi. 59 (1873). 
““‘“J ^ “9. pt Waterfall), 
logoena, taacal.ta fj; Salrad., Bull. B. O. 0. 1892, IH, p. X; (2) id., Ibis 1893, 120; 
(3) Id., Cat. B. XXI, 1893, 591; (4) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1897, 160 
Figure and descriptions. Gould a JJJ; Salvadori 12 3 
but somewhat duller, kss yellow on the hreast, and less 
of the unner /sup” mantle, two purple-violet spots on the sides 
of the upper nape, so that the nape along the middle is entirely hronze-green Size 
scarcely smaller than that of P. trisUgmain (Salvad 3) S ■ ^ 
Distributmn.^^^South Celehes: - Near Maros Waterfall (Wallace ^ 7); near Macassar 
This species the southern representative of P. tristigmata, will possibly prove 
to intergrade with it somewhere in the middle of Celebes. The southern race 
seems to be known only by two specimens - the type in the British Museum, 
figured by Gould (a III), which Mr. Wallace killed near the Maros Falls, 
and an immature example obtained by Mr. Doherty in July, 1896, having the 
purple spots on the sides of the nape scarcely indicated and some brown and 
rusty leathers on the breast (Hartert 4), 
