( 126 ; 



other subspecies on the Lesser Samla Islands, uamely, Bali, Loinbok, Sumbawa 

 (type), Flores, and Pantav. 



AVe have the following specimens : — 



1 c? ad. Bali (W. Doherty coll.). We consider this bird most certainly to 

 belong to orioilnUs, although it is rather small. 



1 c? ad. Lomliok (A. Everett coll.). 



I S ad., 1 ? ad., 1 juv. Snmbawa, 3000 ft. (W. Doherty coll.). 



3 c?, 3 ? and juD. Sonth Flores (A. Everett coll.). 



1 ? Pantar (A. Everett coll.) 



'•U. Macropyg^ia uigrirostris Salvad. 



This small, very deep, almost uniform chestnut pigeon with a barred tail in all 

 ages and sexes, stands ^uite by itself It is distributed all over New Guinea and 

 the Bismarck Archipelago. 



AVe have the following specimens : — 



2 ? Hatam, Arfak (from Bruijn's liuuters). 

 2 (? ad. Dorey (W. Doherty coll.). 



•i S ad. Kapaur, above 20U0 ft. (W. Doherty coll.). " Iris orange, black and 

 whitish ; feet carmine with black claws ; bill black." 

 1 ? Lower Ambernoh River (Dumas coll.). 

 1 S ad. Bongu, Kaiser AVilhelm's Land (Erik Nyman coll.). 

 1 ? jnv. Duke of York Island, 23. ii. 1881 (Th. Kleinschmidt coll.). 

 1 c? ad. Mt. Gayata, Richardson Range, 2000 to 4000 ft. (E. Weiske coll.). 

 c? ad. Fergusson Island (A. S. Meek coll.). 

 ? Goodeuough Island (A. S. Meek coll.). 

 1 S immat. British New Guinea (Goldie coll.), without label. 



'*2. Macropygia rufa Rams. 



We have only one specimen from the New Hebrides (exact island and collector 

 unknown, purchased in Loudon). 



This stands evidently (|iiite ajiart from the other groujjs of the genus. The 

 bifurcated chest-feathers are peculiar, and only to be found again in M. rufocastanea, 

 from the (Solomon Islands. We consider these two forms subspecies of each other, 

 and should call them — 



Macrojii/gia rufa rufa ; and 

 Macro})ijijia rufa rufocastanea. 



(About M. mackinlai/i Rams, see Salvadori's footnote in Cat. B. XXI. p. 304. 

 From the description (bis liird would seem to be quite distinct.) 



The Genus REINWARDTOENA. 

 We can distinguish the following forms (cf. Nov. Zool. VII. p. 240, lUUO). 



03. Reinwardtoena reinwardtsi reinwardtsi (Temm.). 



Abdomen lavender-grey ; breast white. Wing about 21.5— 230 nun. Moluccas. 

 We l}avc it from Batjan, Obi, and Ceram-laut. 

 2 Batjan (Powell and (juillemard c(dl.). 

 1 Batjan HVom W'atcrstradf's natives). 



