1 . SPHENOCKBCUS. 



2. Sphenocercus oxyurus. 



Coluraba oxyura, Reinic. MS. ; Temm. PL Col. 240 (livr. 41, 1823) ; 



Desm. Diet. Sc. Nat. xl. p. 365(1826) ; Way/. Sysf. Av. Columba, 



sp. 6 (1827) ; Less. Tr. d'Om. p. 475 (1831); Less. Compl. de 



Buff., Ois. viii. p. 25 (1837); id. op. cit. 2nd ed. p. 275 (1838); 



Prev. Sf Knip, Pig. ii. pi. 30 (1838). 

 Treron oxyura, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. 1, p. 274 (1826) ; G.R.Gr. 



Gen. B. ii. p. 467, n. 13 (1844) ; Rchnb. Syn. Av. Columbarise, 



ff. 1352 ( $ ), 1353 ( ,S) (1847) ; Schleg. De Dierent. p. 211 (1804) ; 



Wall. Ibis, 1865, pp. 373, 374, 396; id. J. f. 0. 1866, p. 276 ; 



Schley. Mus. P.-B. ColumbSB, p. 62 (1873) : Salvad. Ucc. Born. 



p. 286 (1874) ; Gicb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 652 (1877) ; Rosenb. Malay. 



Archip. p. 108 ( 1878) : Vorderm. X. T. N. 1. xlv. p. 397 (1885), 



xlvi. p. 235 (1886); Bidtik. Not. Leyd. Mus. ix. p. 75 (1886); 



Pelz. | Lor. Ann. Naturh. Hofmus. iii. p. 42 (1888) ; Tristr. Cat. 



Coll. if. p. 45 (1889). 

 Vinago oxyura, Cuv. R'eyne An. 2nd ed. i. p. 492 (1829); Selby, 



Natural. Libr., Pigeons, p. 98, pi. 2 (1835) ; Hartl. Syst. Verz. 



Brem. p. 98 (1844). 

 Sphenurus semitorquatus, Sw. Class. B. ii. p. 348 (1837). 

 Sphenocercus oxyurus, G. R. Gr. List Gen. B. p. 57 (1840) ; Bp. 



Consp. Av. ii. p. 8 (1854) ; id. Compt. Rend, xxxix. p. 873 (1854), 



xl. p. 216, n. 8 (1855) ; id. Coup d'ceil Ordr. Piq. pp. 5, 54, n. 8 



(1855); Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 110, t. 243. ff 1352, 1353 (1862) ; 



Jerd. B. of Ind. iii. p. 454 (1864) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 224, 



n. 9107 (1870) ; Hume, Sir. Feath. viii. p. 67 (1879) ; Salvad. Ann. 



Mus. Civ. Gen. xiv. p. 243(1879) (Sumatra); Nichols. Ibis, 1883, 

 p. 255 (Sumatra) ; Vorderm. N. T. N. I. xlix. p. 412 (1889) ; Hein. 



fyRchnw. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 279 (1890); Hartert, Eat. 

 Vogelsamml. p. 191 (1891). 

 Sphenocercus oxyura, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 230, u. 1393 



(1849). 



Adult male. Olive-green; a greyish band on the upper mantle ; 

 an obsolete russet collar at the base of the neck ; sides and under 

 surface of the wing lead-colour ; flanks with a yellow crescentic band 

 joining the patch of the same colour on the middle of the abdomen : 

 lower feathers of the flanks green with yellow edges ; tibial feathers 

 green ; longer under tail-coverts pale cinnamon, the basal ones 

 green with yellow tips, and the median green with the outer webs 

 yellow; upper wing-coverts olive green, uniform with the back; 

 primary-coverts and qnills slate-black, secondaries edged with lead- 

 colour ; inner secondaries or tertials olive-green on the outer webs, 

 lead-colour on the inner ones ; tail grey, with a broad black band 

 in front of the apical grey band, the central leathers broad but 

 acuminate and of russet-grey colour, pure grey at the base ; tail 

 underneath black, with a broad apical grey band ; the russet colour 

 of the central feathers shows through also below: " irides cobalt- 

 blue, with external ring of pink ; skin round the eye bright green : 

 upper mandible cobalt-blue, tip bright green ; legs bright scarlet " 



