Liste des types d'oiseaux des collections du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle de Paris. 13 : Gangas et Pigeons (Pteroclidae et Columbidae), première partie

After a summarized list of the great French expeditions around the world in the 19th century and of the naturalists who took part in them, the type specimens of 38 Pteroclididae and Columbidae taxa are reviewed and commented. The Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, owns the holotypes by monotypy of the following taxa: Pterocles simplex Roux in Lesson, 1831, Phalacrotreron delalandii Bonaparte, 1854, Vinago calva Verreaux & Verreaux, 1851, Columba leucotis Temminck in Temminck & Laugier, 1823, Columba gularis Quoy & Gaimard, 1830, Kurukuru nebouxii Des Murs & Prévost, 1855, Ptilopus greyi Bonaparte, 1857, Columba dupetithouarsii Néboux, 1840, Ptilinopus mariae Hombron & Jacquinot in Jacquinot & Pucheran, 1853, Ptilopus apicalis Bonaparte, 1854, Ptilopus pictiventris Elliot, 1878, Omeotreron batilda Bonaparte, 1854, Kurukuru mercierii Des Mur & Prévost, 1855, Globicera tarrali Bonaparte, 1854, Globicera pacifica Bonaparte, 1854, Carpophaga griseipectus Gray in Bonaparte, 1854, Columba rufigaster Quoy & Gaimard, 1830, Serresius galeatus Bonaparte, 1855, Columba pinon Quoy & Gaimard, 1824, Columba zoeae Lesson in Dumont, 1826, Ducula pistrinaria Bonaparte, 1854, Carpophaga ochropygia Bonaparte, 1854 as well as syntypes of the following taxa: phenurus apicauda laotianus Delacour, 1926, Sphenurus apicauda lowei Delacour & Jabouille, 1924, Columba cyanovirens Lesson & Garnot in Dumont, 1826, Columba roseicapilla Lesson, 1831, Ptilinopus flavicollis Gray in Bonaparte, 1854, Columba luteovirens Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841, Columba nitidissima Scopoli, 1786, Columba pulcherima Scopoli, 1786, Columba puella Lesson, 1827, Columba oceanica Lesson & Garnot in Dumont, 1826, Carpophaga microcera Bonaparte, 1854, Globicera sundevalli Bonaparte, 1854, Columba luctuosa Temminck in Temminck & Laugier, 1825, Globicera rubricera Gray in Bonaparte, 1854, Columba rosacea Temminck in Temminck & Laugier, 1835. A lectotype is designated for Columba virens Lesson, 1831.