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Show 780 DR. O. FINSCH ON THE BIRDS OF PONAPE. [Nov. 20, secondaries are as in Pt. fasciatus, which differs in its purplish vinaceous-red vent-patch. 16. CARPOPHAGA OCEANICA, Less. One female, exactly agreeing with specimens from the Palaos (Pelew Islands), except that the hind neck and front part of the mantle are of a darker grey. Size the same. Not yet recorded from this locality. 17. PHLEGCJENAS ERYTHROPTERA (Gm.)?. Male adult. Front and sinciput to behind the eye, and a narrow line bordering the sides of vertex and occiput, white, as well as the sides of the neck, chin, throat, and breast; sides of head dull brownish, mixed with new white feathers, showing that these parts become also pure white ; vertex and occiput slaty black ; nape, remainder of upper parts, and wings dark-brown ; wing-coverts, scapulars, and some of the mantle-feathers margined broadly with shining coppery violet; underparts and under wing-coverts slaty black, like the remiges ; tail-feathers the same, but on the basal half dark grey. Bill and feet horn-brown. A few feathers on the back and shoulders are margined with rufous, as well as the outer secondaries and the coverts of the primaries, showing remnants of the young plumage. Young (labelled female). Front, sinciput, and sides of head dirty rusty-brown ; chin, throat, and breast the same, but mixed and tinged with white ; vertex blackish ; upper parts not so dark brown, only some of the upper tail-coverts with purplish violet edgings ; underparts below the breast dark slate-grey; remiges uniform slaty blackish. Eostr. a Long. tot. Al. Caud. front. Tars. Dig. med. in. in. lin. in. hn. lin. lin. in. c. 9| 5 5 2 8 7 15 10 d ad. 4 11 7 14 10 Jun. Although it is very strange that, looking at the local distribution of the species of these Pacific Partridge-Doves, the far western island of Ponape should yield the same species as is said to occur in the Tahiti group, I see no reason to separate the specimens before me specifically from that described by Latham as the "Garnet-winged Pigeon." His description answers pretty well ; but having had no opportunity of comparing it with specimens of the true P. erythroptera from the eastern islands, which are very rare in collections, I have thought it desirable to add a mark of interrogation to m y appellation, as on close comparison perhaps differences might appear which are not to be ascertained by descriptions only. 18. GALLUS FERRUGINEUS, Gm. Male and female. Of the specimens from this locality, the male shows no difference from specimens from Sumatra, except that the |