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EUTRYGON TERRESTRIS.
Papuan Ground-Pigeon.
Trugm terrestre, Hombr. & Jacq. Voy. Pôle Sud, Atlas, Oiseaux, pl. 28. fig. 1 (1846).
Tntgcrn terrestris, Gray, Gen. B., App. p. 24 (1849).—Pucheran & Jacq. Voy. Pôle Sud, Zool. iii. p. 123 (1853)__
Bp. Consp. ii. p. 86 (1S54).—Id. Comptes Rend. xl. pp. 206, 221.—Gray, Proo. Z. S. 1858, p. 196.— Id.
Cat. B. New Guinea, p. 48 (1859).—Id. Proo. Zool. Soc. 1861, p. 437.—Rosenb. Journ. fur Orn.1861,
p. 133. Reicbenb. Columbariæ, p. 45, sp. 97 (1862).—Pinsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 179 (1865).—Wallace,
Ibis, 1865, pp. 369,392.—Id. Malay Archip. ii. p. 430 (1869).—Gray, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 245 (1870).
Trygm terrestri, Reichenb. Av. Syst. Nat. p. xxvi (1852).—Ha^l. Joum. fiir Om. 1854, p. 166.—Suadev. Meth.
Nat. Av. Tent. p. 100 (1872).—Beccati, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, vii. p. 715 (1875).
Starnanas terrestris, Bp. Consp. ii. p. 86 (1854).
Eutrygmi terrestris, Sdater, Proc. Linn. Soc. ii, p. 168 (1858).—Id. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 697.—Salvad. Ann. Mus.
Civ. Gen. vii. p. 791 (1875) ; ix. p. 207 (1876) ; x. p. 161 (1877) ; D’Alb. & Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ.
Gen. xiv. p. 124 (1879).—D’Alb. Nuova Guin. pp. 459, 528, 582, 588 (1880).—Salvad. Oru. Papuasia
&c. iii. p. 182.
Starnano* terrestris, Schleg. Mus. P.-B., Columbæ, p. 166 (1873).— Rosenb. Malay Archip. p. 396 (1879).
Phaps terrestris, Gieb. Thes. Orn. ii. p. 151 (1875).
T h e above synonymy is taken from some sheets o f the ‘ Ornitologia della Papuasia,’ which my friend Count
Salvadori was good enough to send me, on hearing th at I was a t work on the Pigeons o f New Gu in ea; and
I am much indebted to him for the assistance he has always given me in the production o f the present work.
His book contains a summary o f all th at is known o f this Ground-Pigeon, which is really very little. I t was
discovered by the French voyagers Hombron and Jacquinot in Western New Guinea j Mr. Wallace also
procured it on the western side o f the island. In the Arfak Mountains the species was met with by Dr.
Beccari and Signor D’Albertis, at Andai and W a rb u si; while Mr. Bruijn’s hunters procured it at Dorey and
also on the island o f Salwatti. In the southern p art o f the island it was obtained by Signor D ’Albertis on
the Fly r iv e r ; and we have seen several specimens from the interior o f South-eastern New Guinea obtained
by Mr. Goldie, in whose last collection from the back o f the Astrolabe range were a good many individuals.
The original discoverers state th at it is a Ground-Pigeon ; but they do not give any further particulars
as to its habits.
T he figures in the accompanying Plate have been drawn from specimens in my own collection, and will
give some idea o f this fine bird. I add a translation o f the description given by Count Salvadori in the
work above referred to.
Head, neck, upper p a rt o f back, and breast ashy grey, the sinciput an d throat p a le r; forehead and
chin d usky; cheeks g reyish; sides o f neck with an obsolete dusky spot on each ; middle o f back, rump,
upper tail-coverts, wing, and tail shining greyish olive ; middle o f the abdomen pale isabelline, the sides and
under tail-coverts rufescent; primary quills dusky, their outer margin, as well as that o f the secondaries
rufescent towards the t ip ; under wing-coverts dusky, partly isabelline; bill whitish , feet pale flesh-coloured •
iris whitish (D ’Albertis') or red (Wallace). Signor D ’Albertis also procured a bird on the FIv river
which had the eye bright red.
T he figures in the Plate a re about the size o f life. [R. & g.]