EUTRYGON TERRESTRI

Papuan Ground-Pigeon,

S.

Trugon terrestre, Hombr. & Jacq. Voy. Péle Sud, Atlas, Oiseaux, pl. 28. fic, 1 (1846)

Trugon terrestris, Gray, Gen. B., App. p. 24 (1849).—Pucheran & Jacq. Voy Pale S id Tony ‘
Bp. Consp. ii. p. 86 (1854).—Id. Comptes Rend. xl. pp. 206, 221.—Gra : es ae lll. p. 123
Cat. B. New Guinea, p. 48 (1859).—Id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861, p- 437 ee J
p. 133.—Reichenb. Columbarie, p. 45, sp. 97 (1862).—Finsch, / pars
Ibis, 1865, pp. 369, 392.—Id. Malay Archip. ii. p- 430 (1869).

Trygon terrestris, Reichenb. Av. Syst. Nat. p. xxvi (1852).
Nat. Av. Tent. p. 100 (1872).—Beccari

Starnenas terrestris, Bp. Consp. ii. p. 86 (1854),

Eutrygon terrestris, Sclater, Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. aelos5 i858) Ice Ra Zaase 1873, p. 697.—Salvad. Ann. Mus
Civ. Gen. vii. p. 791 (1875) ; ix. p. 207 (1876); x. p. 161 (1877); D’Alb. & Salvad. on ne Civ.
Gen. xiv. p. 124 (1879).—D’Alb. Nuova Guin. pp. 459, 528, 582, 588 (1880).—Salvad. Orn. Bane
&e. iii. p. 182.

Starnenas terrestris, Schleg. Mus. P.-B., Columbie, p- 166

Phaps terrestris, Gieb. Thes. Orn. ii. p. 151 (1875).

(1853).—
1858, p. 196.—Id.
rn. fiir Orn.1861,
Neu-Guinea, p. 179 (1865).— Wall
—Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 245 (1870).
—Hartl. Journ. fiir Orn. 1854, p. 166.—Sundev. Meth,
, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, vii. p. 715 (1875).

ace,

(1873).—Rosenb. Malay Archip. p. 396 (1879).

Tue above synonymy is taken from some sheets of the ‘ Ornitologia della Papuasia,’ which my friend Count
Salvadori was good enough to send me, on hearing that I was at work on the Pigeons of New Guinea; and
Tam much indebted to him for the assistance he has always given me in the production of the present work.
His book contains a summary of all that is known of this Ground-Pigeon, which is really very little. It was
discovered by the French yoyagers Hombron and Jacquinot in Western New Guinea; Mr. Wallace also
procured it on the western side of the island. In the Arfak Mountains the species was met with by Dr.
Beceari and Signor D’Albertis, at Andai and Warbusi; while Mr. Bruijn’s hunters procured it at Dorey and
also on the island of Salwatti. In the southern part of the island it was obtained by Signor D’Albertis on
the Fly river ; and we have seen several specimens from the interior of South-eastern New Guinea obtained
by Mr. Goldie, in whose last collection from the back of the Astrolabe range were a good many individuals.

The original discoverers state that it is a Ground-Pigeon ; but they do not give any further particulars
as to its habits.

The figures in the accompanying Plate have been drawn from specimens in my own collection, and will
give some idea of this fine bird. I add a translation of the description given by Count Salvadori in the
work above referred to.

Head, neck, upper part of back, and breast ashy grey, the sinciput and throat paler ; forehead and
chin dusky; cheeks greyish ; sides of neck with an obsolete dusky spot on each ; middle of oe ee
upper tail-coverts, wing, and tail shining greyish olive ; middle of the oy pale isabelline, the of anc
under tail-coverts rufescent; primary quills dusky, their outer margin, as well as that . a oe a
tufescent towards the tip; under wing-coverts dusky, partly isabelline ; bill whitish , a s . oe
itis whitish (D’Albertis) or red (Wallace). Signor D’Albertis also procured a bird on the Bly
which had the eye bright red.

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The figures in the Plate are about the size of life. [