Specimens from New Guinea have the breast pale lavender in place of pure white.

Young. A young female from Andai has the upper surface brown, changing into chestnut, the tail and wing-coverts as in the adult, but much deeper chestnut; beneath, from the breast, as in the adult: otherwise all the parts which are lavender or white in the adult are dull earthy brown, with a few lavender feathers tipped with rufous appearing on the head and neck. Wing 8.7 to 9.3 inches, tail 10 to 12, tarsus 1·1, bill 1 to 1.1.

Hab. Lombock, Flores, Celebes, and New Guinea, including nearly all the intervening islands from Morty in the north to Amboina in the south.

2. REINWARDTŒNAS MINOR.

Macropygia reinwardti minor, Schleg. Mus. P.-B. iv. Columbæ, p. 106 (Soëk).

Reinwardtænas minor, Salvad. Orn. Pap. iii. p. 129.

I have not had the opportunity of examining specimens of this species, but it is described by Count Salvadori as being much smaller than the last and of a much purer white. Hab. The Island of Misor.

3. REINWARDTONAS BROWNI.

Macropygia browni, Scl. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 110. Reinwardtænas browni, Salvad. Orn. Pap. iii. p. 130. Adult (type). Like R. reinwardti, but all the chestnut parts replaced by slaty black; the four outer tail-feathers with a pale slaty patch across the middle.

Sexes alike.

Wing 9 inches, tail 10, tarsus 11, bill 1.1. Iris light yellow, bill and feet cherry (Richards). Iris blue, with a broad orange margin; legs red (Brown).

Hab. New Britain, Duke of York Island.

Genus III. TURACENA, Bp.

It has been the custom hitherto to treat Turacona as an ally of Macropygia; and perhaps rightly so, for its habits

seem to be somewhat similar. On the other hand, the tail is not that of Macropygia, being quite plain and much less graduated.

I am not aware that the anatomy of Turacona, as distinguished from Macropygia, has ever been described, but I fully expect to find that when its internal structure is examined it will be found necessary to remove it from its present position.

Genus TURACENA, Bp. Consp. ii. p. 58 (1854).

"Orbitæ nudæ, pedes brevissimi, cauda minus graduata." Type Columba manadensis (Q. & G.).

Confined to the Australian Region.

1. TURACENA MANADENSIS.

Columba manadensis, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. i. p. 248, pl. 30 (1830) (Manado).

Turacœna manadensis (Q. & G.), Wald. Trans. Z. S. viii. p. 85 (p. 185); Meyer, Ibis, 1879, p. 137.

Adult. Head and throat white; occiput, nape, mantle, and breast bright metallic green, the feathers being brown at the base, and metallic green at the tip, with a shade of dark blue between. Remainder of the plumage very dark slate, with a shade of purple on the upper surface, and the metallic green breast gradually blending into purplish slate on the belly.

Sexes alike.

Wing 75 to 8 inches, tail 9, tarsus 1, bill 1. Iris red (Meyer). Orbits bare, red; bill and feet black (Wallace). Birds from the Sula Islands are a trifle smaller, but otherwise identical.

It feeds on different fruits, especially that of Capsicum fastigiatum (Wallace).

Hab. Celebes, Sula Islands.

All the birds in the British Museum seem to be adult except one, which is much browner in plumage, especially on the wings and tail; the neck and mantle more plumbeous, with green and bluish-purple reflections.

2. TURACINA MODESTA.

Turacona modesta, Temm. Pl. Col. 552; Knip, Pig. ii. p. 31; Wall. Ibis, 1863, p. 486.

Slate-colour, with reflections of green and lilac on the head, nape, and mantle; primaries and tail brown, quite plain.

Sexes alike.

Wing 8 inches, tail 8, tarsus 1, bill 1. Iris brick-red, with an inner tinge of yellow; orbits yellow; bill and feet black (Wallace).

Hab. Timor.

XXII.-On a new Genus of the Order Columbæ. By Major R G. WARDLAW RAMSAY, F.L.S., F.Z.S.

In the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,' vol. vii. p. 116 (1883), Mr. W. A. Haswell has a paper on the "Anatomy of Turacona," relating to the socalled Turacona crassirostris, Gould, which in reality does not belong to that genus, as the tail alone is sufficient to show.

Mr. Haswell proves that this species is not a Macropygia, and moreover belongs to the subfamily Phapinæ rather than to the Columbine, having no cæca, while an ambiens muscle is present. The shape of the gizzard also removes it from Macropygia.

The general appearance of Turacœna crassirostris is that of Macropygia, and it has a tail resembling that genus; but it has a very massive bill, resembling Didunculus, and the occipital feathers are lengthened into a crest, somewhat as in Ocyphaps lophotes.

For this bird I propose the new generic name

CORYPHENAS, gen. nov.

1. CORYPHŒNAS CRASSIROSTRIS.

Turacona crassirostris, Gould, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 136 (Gua