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Show 112 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON BIRDS FROM [Feb. 20, Chalcophaps margaritce, Salvad. op. cit. ix. p. 44. Phlogcenas jobiensis, Meyer, Mitth. zool. Mus. Dresden, i. p. 10 (1875). Of this beautiful Pigeon there are a pair and a young bird in the collection, without the exact locality. Now that Salvadori has received the adult of this species from Jobie, I think there can be no doubt that Meyer's Phlogcenas jobiensis is merely the young of this bird. I have compared Dr. Meyer's type (now in Mr. Gould's hands on loan) with my young bird, and find them agree in every essential, though Dr. Meyer's specimen shows some traces of the purple colour of the adult appearing on the wing-coverts, which is not the case with m y specimen. It is worthy of notice how nearly allied this species is to P. erythroptera, of "the Society group, which, however, differs in its rather smaller size and white forehead. 58. PHLOGCENAS JOHANN^E, sp. nov. (Plate XVI.) Fuscescenti-castanea, in dorso ceneo lavata : tectricibus alarum minoribus extus nitide purpureis : capite et cervice undique cum pectore pallide cinereis, hoc colore in pileo saturatiore, in pectore clariore et in album purum transeunte: occipite, sicut dorsum, ceneo lavato : colore pectoris albo in semicirculum desi-nente, et margine purpureo sicut in alarum tectricibus preecincto: alarum remigibusprimariisfusco-nigris unicoloribus, secundariis et scapularibus extus dorso concoloribus.- cauda supra dorso concolori, subtus nigricante, rectricum apicibus fusco-rufls: rostro nigro : oculorum ambitu nudo : pedibus rubris: long, tota 7*8, alee 4*4, caudee 2*7, tarsi l'l. A pair of this beautiful Ground-dove, which, so far as I cau make out, is quite new, are in the collection ; the exact locality is unfortunately not given. The nearest species known seem to be P. stairi (G. R. Gray)1, of the Samoans, from which, however, P. johannee may be readily known by its lovely pure white breast, and P. canifrons, Hartl. & Finsch, of the Pelew group2, in which the hind part of the neck is rusty red. 59. CALCENAS NICOBARICA (Linn.). One female, from Duke-of-York Island. Lesson (Voy. Coq. Zool. i. p. 342) has already recorded the occurrence of this species in New Ireland. 60. ARDEA SACRA, Gm. : Finsch et Hartl. Orn. Central-Pol. p. 201. One skin in the grey, and one in the white plumage, from Duke-of- York Island. > P.Z.S. 1856, p. 7, pl. 115. ** Journ. Mus. Godeffr. viii. p. 27, pl. v. fig. 1. |