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•TBERON CURVIROSTRA NASICA Schlegel 



Treron nasica Schlegel, Nederlandsch Tijdschrift Dierkunde, vol. 1, p. 67, 1863. 

 ("district de Bandjermassing dans le Borneo meridional"; "cote sud-ouest 

 de Sumatra"). 



This species has been recorded from Bunguran Island by Doctor 

 Hartert,*** under the name Treron nipalensis. 



•DENDROPHASSA FULVICOLUS FULVICOLUS (Waaler) 



C[olumba]. fulvicollis Wagleb, Systema avium, Columba species 8, p. 229, 1827. 

 ("Insulis Philippinis.") 



This species was recorded by Doctor Hartert*^ from specimens 

 obtained on Sirhassen Island. 



•DENDROPHASSA OLAX OLAX (Tenuninck) 



Columba olax Temmince, Nouveau recueil de planches colorizes d'oiseaux, vol. 4, 

 livr. 41, texte to pi. 241, p. [1], Dec. 27, 1823. ("Sumatra.") 



A specimen taken on Mount Ranay, Bunguran Island, has been 

 recorded by Doctor Hartert.*^ 



DENDROPHASSA VERNANS PELLOCHLORA, new subspecies 



Suhspecific characters. — Similar to Dendrophassa *^ vernans vernans, 

 from the Philippine Islands, but much larger; male somewhat darker, 

 duller, less greenish (more slaty), on back and wings, and with pos- 

 terior lower parts duller, less yellow; female also darker, didler above, 

 duller, less yellowish (more grayish) below, with the under tail coverts 

 darker. 



Description— Type, adult female, U.S.N.M. No. 174674, Sir- 

 hassen Island, Natuna Islands, June 8, 1900; Dr. W. L. Abbott. 

 Forehead mignonette green; remaining upper surface (except the 

 upper tail coverts) Kronberg's green, somewhat washed with plumbe- 

 ous on crown, cervix, and rump, and shading on the last into the light 

 brownish olive of the upper tail coverts; tail slate-gray, the two middle 

 rectrices slightly shaded with brownish olive basally and all crossed 

 by a subterminal band of black, some 25 mm. wide on outermost pair, 

 but only 8 mm. on the middle feathers; primaries, secondaries, outer- 

 most greater wing coverts, and primary coverts, black, slightly 

 brownish, the inner webs of the quUls shading to neutral gray basally, 

 the primaries edged very narrowly on terminal portion of outer webs 

 with yellowish or buffy white, the inner secondaries in a similar 

 manner but more broadly wdth picric yellow or pale lemon yellow; 



« Nov. Zool., vol. 2, no. 3, p. 477, Aug. 17, 1895. 

 " Nov. Zool., vol. 1, no. 2, p. 482, Apr. 16, 1894. 

 « Nov. Zool., vol. 2, no. 3, p. 476, Aug. 17, 1895. 



M For the change of the generic name OsmotTeron Bonaparte to Dendropkana Glogcr, see Oberholser, 

 Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 60, no. 7, p. 2, Oct. 26, 1912. 



