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Name: Extinct birds : $b An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times
Author: Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron

Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron

Birds; Extinct birds

_Columba spadicea_ Latham, Ind. Orn., Suppl. p. LX, No. 7
    (1802--Norfolk Island); Temminck and Knip, Pigeons, II, p. 1, pl. 1
    (1808--"Friendly Islands."--Errore).

    _Columba gigas_ Ranzani, Elementi di Zool. III, 1, p. 223
    (1821--"Friendly Islands."--Errore).

    _Columba princeps_ Vigors, P.Z.S. 1833, p. 78 (Australia--errore).

    _Columba leucogaster_ Wagler, Syst. Av., Columba spec. 12
    (1827--Norfolk Island).

    _Hemiphaga spadicea_ Salvadori, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXI, p. 238 (1893).

The Norfolk Island Pigeon, _Hemiphaga spadicea spadicea_, is very similar
to the New Zealand Pigeon, _Hemiphaga spadicea novaezealandiae_, but
differs in having the hind-neck coppery or metallic green, sharply defined
from the chestnut back, the wings and upper wing-coverts more greyish, less
greenish, also the lower back and rump somewhat more greyish.

As far as we know this pigeon was only found on Norfolk Island, the
locality "Australia" being doubtless erroneous. Like so many other birds it
became extinct on Norfolk Island, probably more than half a century ago.

There are evidently quite a number of specimens in various museums, many of
which have never been recorded. I am aware of the following examples:

  1 in the British Museum (Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXI, p. 238).
  3 in the Liverpool Museum (Bull. Liverp. Mus. I, p. 35).
  1 in my own collection (Proc. IV. Orn. Congress, p. 215).
  1 in Philadelphia, U.S. America (Cassin, U.S. Expl. Exp. B, p. 225).
  1 in Frankfurt a.M. (Hartert, Kat. Vogelsamml., p. 189).
  1 in Wiesbaden (Lampe, Jahrb. Nassau Ver. 58).
  1 in Bremen (Hartlaub, Verz. Museum, p. 98).
  1 in Lisbon (Forbes and Rob., Bull. Liverp. Mus. II, p. 130).
  1 in Leyden (Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas).
  1 in Vienna (Ibis 1860, p. 422).
  1 in Naples, seen by myself.
  1 in Milan, examined by myself.

The specimen at Tring was bought at the auction of the "Cumberland Museum"
at Distington.

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                     ALECTROENAS NITIDISSIMA (SCOP.)

                               (PLATE 22.)

    _Pigeon hollandais_ Sonnerat, Voy. Ind. Orient. II, p. 175, pl. 101
    (1782).

    _Hackled Pigeon_ Latham, Syn. B. II, 2, p. 641, No. 36 (1783).

    _Columba nitidissima_ Scopoli, Del. Flor. and Faun. Insubr. II, p. 93,
    No. 89 (1786) (ex Sonnerat).

    _Columba franciae_ Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 2, p. 779, No. 51 (1788). (ex
    Sonnerat).

    _Columba botanica_ Bonnaterre, Enc. Méth. I, p. 233 (1790).

    _Ramier périssé_ Levaillant, Ois. d'Afr. VI, p. 74, pl. 267 (1808).

    _Columba jubata_ Wagler, Syst. Av., _Columba_, sp. 22 (1827).

    _Alectroenas nitidissima_ G. R. Gray, List Gen. B., p. 58 (1840).

    _Alectroenas franciae_ Reichenbach, Syn. Av., _Columbariae_, p. 2, f.
    1302 (1847).

    _Columbigallus franciae_ Des Murs, Encycl. d'Hist. Nat., Ois. VI., p.
    31, (1854?).

    _Ptilopus nitidissimus_ Schlegel and Pollen, Rech. Faun. Madag., p. 159
    (1868).

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Extinct birds : $b An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times

Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron

Birds; Extinct birds

_Columba spadicea_ Latham, Ind. Orn., Suppl. p. LX, No. 7
    (1802--Norfolk Island); Temminck and Knip, Pigeons, II, p. 1, pl. 1
    (1808--"Friendly Islands."--Errore).

    _Columba gigas_ Ranzani, Elementi di Zool. III, 1, p. 223
    (1821--"Friendly Islands."--Errore).

    _Columba princeps_ Vigors, P.Z.S. 1833, p. 78 (Australia--errore).

    _Columba leucogaster_ Wagler, Syst. Av., Columba spec. 12
    (1827--Norfolk Island).

    _Hemiphaga spadicea_ Salvadori, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXI, p. 238 (1893).

The Norfolk Island Pigeon, _Hemiphaga spadicea spadicea_, is very similar
to the New Zealand Pigeon, _Hemiphaga spadicea novaezealandiae_, but
differs in having the hind-neck coppery or metallic green, sharply defined
from the chestnut back, the wings and upper wing-coverts more greyish, less
greenish, also the lower back and rump somewhat more greyish.

As far as we know this pigeon was only found on Norfolk Island, the
locality "Australia" being doubtless erroneous. Like so many other birds it
became extinct on Norfolk Island, probably more than half a century ago.

There are evidently quite a number of specimens in various museums, many of
which have never been recorded. I am aware of the following examples:

  1 in the British Museum (Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXI, p. 238).
  3 in the Liverpool Museum (Bull. Liverp. Mus. I, p. 35).
  1 in my own collection (Proc. IV. Orn. Congress, p. 215).
  1 in Philadelphia, U.S. America (Cassin, U.S. Expl. Exp. B, p. 225).
  1 in Frankfurt a.M. (Hartert, Kat. Vogelsamml., p. 189).
  1 in Wiesbaden (Lampe, Jahrb. Nassau Ver. 58).
  1 in Bremen (Hartlaub, Verz. Museum, p. 98).
  1 in Lisbon (Forbes and Rob., Bull. Liverp. Mus. II, p. 130).
  1 in Leyden (Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas).
  1 in Vienna (Ibis 1860, p. 422).
  1 in Naples, seen by myself.
  1 in Milan, examined by myself.

The specimen at Tring was bought at the auction of the "Cumberland Museum"
at Distington.

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                     ALECTROENAS NITIDISSIMA (SCOP.)

                               (PLATE 22.)

    _Pigeon hollandais_ Sonnerat, Voy. Ind. Orient. II, p. 175, pl. 101
    (1782).

    _Hackled Pigeon_ Latham, Syn. B. II, 2, p. 641, No. 36 (1783).

    _Columba nitidissima_ Scopoli, Del. Flor. and Faun. Insubr. II, p. 93,
    No. 89 (1786) (ex Sonnerat).

    _Columba franciae_ Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 2, p. 779, No. 51 (1788). (ex
    Sonnerat).

    _Columba botanica_ Bonnaterre, Enc. Méth. I, p. 233 (1790).

    _Ramier périssé_ Levaillant, Ois. d'Afr. VI, p. 74, pl. 267 (1808).

    _Columba jubata_ Wagler, Syst. Av., _Columba_, sp. 22 (1827).

    _Alectroenas nitidissima_ G. R. Gray, List Gen. B., p. 58 (1840).

    _Alectroenas franciae_ Reichenbach, Syn. Av., _Columbariae_, p. 2, f.
    1302 (1847).

    _Columbigallus franciae_ Des Murs, Encycl. d'Hist. Nat., Ois. VI., p.
    31, (1854?).

    _Ptilopus nitidissimus_ Schlegel and Pollen, Rech. Faun. Madag., p. 159
    (1868).

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Extinct birds : $b An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times

Extinct birds : $b An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times

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