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lores and lower jaw, the foreneck does not seem to beeome so light as iu ver}- 

 adult typical xunthogaster. 



{Type: No. 5384 Koma, 11. viii. 1902. H. Kiibii coll.) 



j ? , Roma, July, August r.io2. (Xo.s. 5173, 53:2—5375, 5380, 5384, 5406.) 

 5 (J ?, Kisser, April, May, .Juue 1901. (Not numbered.) 



7 (J?, Moa, November, December 1902. (Nos. 0138— 0140, 0271, 6272, 6319, 

 6320.) 



8 <J?,Letti, October, November 1902. (Nos. 5893—5895,6068, 6084—0086, 

 6496.) 



7c??, Wetter, October 1902. (Nos. 0702—5708.) 



"Iris orange (oclireons, yellowish ocliredus, reddish ochreons, dull orange), 

 feet olive-grey f])lumbeons grey, olivaceous), bill dirty green (pale green, olive- 

 green, dnll blackish, base below light)."' 



Young birds have the head and neck more or less greenish grey, as in 

 P. .'/•. j-(tntlw(jasti'r. 



1 have not seen examples from Babber, but I suppose they might belong to 

 the typical .niiiif/ioi/aslt'r, the birds of Bablier being often the same as those of 

 Timorlaut or Dammer, while different from those of the more western islands 

 (Letti, Kisser, 5Ioa, Roma*). (Dr. Riodal obtained Pfilinopus icrdlacei on 

 Babber. Cf Meyer, Abh. Isis 1884.) 



'.I. Carpophaga cineracea I'Temm.). 



Oihimha ciiicntren Temtninck, PI. C"l. 00:-! (183.'i : Timor). 



8ix sjiecimens were collected on Wetter in April 19nl and Scjitember 1902. 

 (Nos. 3749, 3757, 3775, 5548, 5549, 5550.) " Iris whitish yellow (chromeons), 

 feet reddish dark grey (greyisli black, reddish black), bill slate-black (slate- 

 grey), greyish or slaty below." 



Q'liis rare i)igeon has hitherto only been known from Timor. AVe have no 

 Timor sj)ecimens to comj)are. 8exes alike. 



10. Carpophaga rosacea (Temm.). 



CiiUimhu riisarra Temminck, PI. Col. 678 (18:1,'): Timor). 



Curjiojihagii rasncea Finsch, A^'oles Leijdeu Muxetim xxii. p. 295 (Wetter, Kisser, Letti, Babber). 



Mr. Kiihn found this wide-spread pigeon common on Romab, Moa, Letti, 



Wetter and Kisser. 



15 J?, Roma, July 1902. (Nos. 5025, 5230, 5236-5239,5247,0418, the 



rest without numbers.) 



c? ?, Moa, November— December 1902. (Nos. 6207, 6233—6235, 6377, 6417.) 

 7 cJ ? , Letti, November— December 1902. (Nos. 0045, 6095, 0098, 0478—6481.) 

 7c??, Wetter, April 1 901, September— October 1902. (Nos. 5542—5547, 3750.) 

 10 cJ ? , Kisser, Ainil— June 1901. (Nos. 3885, 3886, 3969-3972, 4055, 4079, 



4084, 40.S5.) 



" Iris burnt-sienna red (dark scarlet, scarlet), eyelids and nostrils crimson, 



feet bright crimson (brownish crimson, purple, pinkish crimson, pinkish jjurple), 



liill ash-grey (slate-grey)." 



• Ib Ntrv. Zool. 1901, p. 113. under llie lieading of J'tilinoj/un riridis, 1 mentioned, among otliers, 

 two females from Uoraiu, Manowoka group, which, however, are females of Ptilhwpiis viniUi 

 prasinorrhoui, which is also found on the Key Islands, Tooor, Uoramdaut, Kisoei and Kilsoein. 



