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ON THE BIEDS OE THE KEY AND SOUTH-EAST ISLANDS, 

 AND OE CERAM-LAUT. 



By ERNST HARTERT. 



(Contimiet? from }'■ 5.) 



III. COLUMBAE. 



15. Ptilinopus xanthogaster OVa.al.). 



Elat, Great Key, Toeal, Little Key. Evidently freiinent. 



Teoor (4), Manggoer (2), Kilsoeiu, Koer Islands (.5), Taam (5). Also common 

 on Dammer Island in the Banda Sea, and on Banda. (Cf. Nov. Zool. 1900, p. 21.) 



1(3. Ptilinopus superbus (Temm. & Knip). 



Tliis well-known pigeon, though sjjread from Queensland to the Moluccas, is 

 absent from the Key and South-East Islands. From Ceram-laut BIr. Kiihn sent 

 us a number of specimens. 



IT. Ptilinopus wallacei G. R. Gray. 



Key Islands and South-East Islands : Bacer (Ruin) and Toeal, Little Key 

 gronp. Koer group (Komeer, Kilsoeiu, Koer), Taam, Blanggoer. Inhabits also 

 Banda, Timorlant, and the Aru Islands. 



18. Ptilinopus rivolii prasinorrhous Gray. 



Add, north of Great Key, Toeal on Little Key ; Teoor, Goram-laut, Kisoei, 

 Kilsoein, aud Koer in the Koer group. 



19. Ptilinopus viridis (L.). 



This pigeon does not extend as far south as the Key Islands ; but we have 

 received four males from Maar Island, near Ceram-laut, seven mali's and two 

 females from Manawoka, Goram group. 



20. Carpophaga rosacea (Temm.). 



Not rare on the Key Islauds. AVe have received half a dozen from Toeal. 

 " Iris dark carmine. Eyelids and nostrils carmine. Bill dark grey. Feet carmine." 



21. Carpophaga concinna concinna Wall. 



Goram-laut, Manawoka, Taam, Koer, Kilsoeiu in the Koer group, Manggoer, 

 Kisoei, Teoor. 



All these specimens, 18 in all, must be taken as typical conciium, though some 

 are very white and approach C. concinna separata. These 18 specimens lorm part 

 of a series of 44 in the Tring Museum. 



