1. SPHENOCERCUS. 



4. Sphenocercus korthalsi. 



Columba sphenura, Knip 8f Prev. (nee Vic/.) Pig. ii. pi. 49* 

 (1838-43). 



Columba korthalsi, Temm. (ubi ?)fide G. R. Gr. List Gallince B. M. 

 p. 4 (1*44). 



Treron korthalsi, G R. Gr. List Gallince B. M. p. 4 (1844); id. 

 Gen. B. ii. p. 407, n. 16 (1844); id. List B. Brit. Mm. 

 Columbre, p. 16 (1856) (Sumatra); Wall. Ibis, 180.'), p. 374 

 (Java) ; id. J. f. O. 1866, p. 276 ; ScMeg. Mus. P.-B. Columba?, 

 p. 60 (1873) (Java) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 051 (1877). 



Sphenocercus korthalsi, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 9 (1854) (Malasia, 

 Sumatra) ; id. Compt. Rend, xxxix. p. 873 (1854), xl. p. 210, n. 11 

 (1855); id. Coup d'ceil Ordr. Pig. pp. 5, 54, n. 11 (1855); 

 Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. Ill (1862), ii. p. 182, Nov. Suppl. t. v. f. 58 

 (1862) (ex Knip): Jerd. B. of Ind. iii. p. 454 (1804) ; G. R. Gr. 

 Hand-list, ii. p. 224, n. 9105 (1870) ; Hume, Str. Feath. viii. p. 67 

 (1879) ; ? Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xiv. p. 243 (1879) (Su- 

 matra); Vorderm. N. T. N. I. xlix. p. 412 (1889), li. p. 400 

 (1890) : Hein. Sf Rchmo. Nomenel. Mus. Hem. Orn. p. 279(1890) ; 

 Hartert, Kat. Vogelsamml. p. 191 (1891) 



Yina>ro korthalsi, 8. Mull., fide Schley. Mus. P.-B. Columbse, p. 60 

 (1873). 



Sphenocercus etorques, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xiv. p. 244 

 (1879) (Sumatra) ; Rchnw. # Se/ial. J.f. O. 1882, p. 117. 



Adult nude. Head, neck, and underparts green with a yellow 

 tinge ; mantle green with a slight grey tinge ; back, scapulars, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts olive-greeu ; across the breast a rufous 

 tinge ; middle of the abdomen pure yellow : flanks dark green, with 

 the edges of the feathers yellow ; tibial feathers dark green, fringed 

 with yellow ; the longer under tail-coverts pale cinnamon, the 

 shorter or basal ones dark green, with broad yellow edges ; smaller 

 upper wing-coverts maroon ; the median and the greater wing- 

 coverts olive-green ; primaries and secondaries brown-black, nar- 

 rowly margined with yellow : tertiaries, like the scapulars, dark 

 olive-green ; wings underneath dark lead-grey : tail above dark 

 olive-green, the three or four outer feathers with a black subapical 

 band, broader on the outermost one ; tail underneath dark grey, 

 nearly black, with the tips of the feathers grey : " iris dark (!) ; bill 

 lead-colour; feet red" ( Wallace). Total length 12-5 inches, 

 wing 0-5, tail 5 - 5, bill - 75, tarsus 0"8. (Mus. Genov.) 



Female. Similar to the male, but it wants the maroon colour on 

 the upper wing-coverts, which are entirely olive-green, and the 

 rufous tinge across the breast. 



The specimens in Beccari's collection from Mount Singalan, 

 W. Sumatra (S. etorques, Salvad.), were most probably not fully 

 adult birds. 



Hub. Java and Sumatra. 



* In tlii- plate tin- rufoua band on the breast is t"" narrow, and the middle 

 i| tin- abdomen too wliite. 



