. Ornithological miscellany . nea itself occur Ptilopiis rivolii and P. hellus ; but theyhave not, till now, been found together—P. hellus only on the Arfak mountains,P. rivolii on the coast of New Guinea, opposite Salawati. The Arfakmountains can perhaps be considered equivalent to an insular elevation. Onthe island of Mysore only P. speciosiis occurs, closely allied to P. hellus; onthe island of Jobi only P. miquelii; on the island of Mafoor P. speciosus andP. rivolii together. This is obvious, Mafoor being a small island. But it wouldbe premature to reason about the facts, as perhaps a more

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. Ornithological miscellany . nea itself occur Ptilopiis rivolii and P. hellus ; but theyhave not, till now, been found together—P. hellus only on the Arfak mountains,P. rivolii on the coast of New Guinea, opposite Salawati. The Arfakmountains can perhaps be considered equivalent to an insular elevation. Onthe island of Mysore only P. speciosiis occurs, closely allied to P. hellus; onthe island of Jobi only P. miquelii; on the island of Mafoor P. speciosus andP. rivolii together. This is obvious, Mafoor being a small island. But it wouldbe premature to reason about the facts, as perhaps a more accurate know-ledge of the fauna of these parts of the globe than we now possess will showus that the real geographical distribution of these four interesting species ofPigeons is different from what we now suppose. The bird from which the Plate is taken is a good specimen, which waskindly lent to me for the use of this work by Dr. Meyer, Director of theDresden Museum. It is represented the size of life. [To BE CONTINUED.]. M W •Oi ■02 00 t^ 1-H C/0 00 r-H El ^^ CO Q ;=) cis o t=3 ,^^ -< -^^- ^ 2; < Eh ^ W KJ P-( -H ^ ai O ^Yr O ,.—*- E-i O ^_^ tc; CL, o d3 M;

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