Order C0LUMB1F0RMES. 
No. 49. 
Family TRERON1DM. 
GLOBICERA RUBRICERA. 
RED-CERED PIGEON. 
(Plate 35.) 
Globicera Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris, Vol. XXXIX., p. 1072, Dec. 11th, 
1854. Type (by tautonymy): Columba globicera Wagler= Columha pacifica Gmelin. 
Globicera rubricera Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris, Vol. XXXIX, p. 1073, Dec. 
11th, 1854 : New Ireland. 
Globicera rubricera Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris, Vol. XXXIX., p. 1073, 
Dec. 11th, 1854 ; id., Iconogr. Pigeons, pi. 39, 1857 ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
Vol. XXI., p. 178, 1893, pref. June 30th ; Kershaw, Emu, Vol. XVIII., p. 239, pi. 
xxxv., April 1919 ; Mathews, Check List Birds Austr., pt. 1. p. 110, Feb. 16th, 1920 ; 
Kinghom, Emu, Vol. XXIV., p. 289, May 8th, 1925 ; Mathews, Syst. Av. Australas., 
p. 45, 1927. 
Carpophaga lepida Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., Vol. VII., 1854, p. 230, March 23rd, 
1855 : North coasts of Australia, error=New Ireland. 
Carpophaga rubricera Gould, Birds New Guinea, pt. xix., Vol. V., pi. 63, 1885. 
Distribution. Bismarck Archipelago only. 
Adult. Top of head, sides of throat, sides of face, hind-neck, sides of neck, chin and throat 
dull fawn-colour ; breast and sides of breast pale vinous becoming darker on the abdomen, 
lower flanks and under tail-coverts ; thighs drab-grey ; under wing-coverts ash-grey ; 
under-surface of flight-quills dark brown ; lower aspect of tail blackish-brown; lower 
hind-neck, sides of neck and mantle pale grey ; back, scapulars, upper wing-coverts, 
inner secondaries, rump, and upper tail-coverts green with coppery reflections which 
become almost absent on the bastard wing, primary-coverts, rump and upper tail- 
coverts ; inner webs of flight-quills blackish with greenish-blue margins on the outer webs ; 
tail-feathers purplish-black edged with bluish-green on the outer webs. Total length of 
unmounted skin 430 mm. : wing 243, culmen and cere 29, tail 127, tarsus 35. Collected 
“ by one of the officers of the surveying expedition on the North Coast of Australia. 
Locality ? ” 
On this plate I have figured Globicera rubricera Bonaparte, 1854, and 
Charadrms hiaticula Linne. In my opinion both of these are very doubtful 
records. On the label of the Globicera is written: “ Sp. (?) procured 
by one of the officers of the surveying expedition on the North Coast of 
Australia. Locality 7 ? ” 
This was described by John Cassin in the December number of the 
Proceed. Acad. Nat. Sci. of Philadelphia, Vol. VII., No. VI., 1854, pub¬ 
lished March 23rd, 1855. After describing the bird he says under Obs.: “The 
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