5. XRERON. 33 



Columba gigantea, Raffl.fde G. R. Gr. List B. Brit. Mux. Columbfc, 



p. 13, in syn. T. capellei (18o(j). 

 "Toria capellei, Blyth" (errore), Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 464, in 



syn. 13. capellei. 



Adult male. Olive with a greyish tinge, decidedly greyer on the 

 forehead, yellowish on the throat and on the lower breast; upper 

 breast yellowish chestnut, bordered on the sides with pure chestnut ; 

 under tail-coverts chestnut, the shortest ones with broad buff edges ; 

 quills slate-black, the smaller upper wing-coverts, except the an- 

 terior ones, olive ; the median and greater wing-coverts and the 

 inner secondaries with broad yellow edges on the outer webs ; under 

 surface of the wings slate-grey ; tail above olive, the lateral feathers 

 with a grey apical band, about half an inch broad ; the three outer 

 tail-feathers slate-grey ; tail underneath black, with a grey apical 

 band: "hill greenish white, base olive-green: iris dark ash (or 

 golden-yellow, Hartert) ; orbits slightly bare yellow-tinged ; feet 

 chrome-yellow" {Wallace). Total length 13 inches, wing 7'6, tail 

 5-2, bill 0-82, tarsus 0-86. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but has no chestnut colour 

 on the upper breast, which is tinged with yellowish olive ; the 

 under tail-coverts are greenish grey, broadly edged with huffy 

 white. 



According to Schlegel, Javan specimens have the bill less 

 robust. 



Hob. Mergui Archipelago, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, 

 and Java. 



a. <$ ad. sk. Penang {Cantor). 



b. S ad. sk. Penang. 

 c-f' d ad. sk. Selangore, April, July, and Aug. 



( 11 ". Davison), 



ff-s. <3 2 ad. et Klang, Feb.-April ( W. Davison). 



juv. sk. 



t. 2 ad. sk. Malacca. 



u-d'. $ 2 ad. Foot of Gunnong Pulai, Johore, 



sk. March ( W. Davison), 



e'-i'. 3 ad. sk. Johore, Aug. ( If. Davison). 



/.•',/'• d 5ad.sk. Sumatra. 



m',ri. ^ 5 ad. Sumatra {A. R. Wallace). 



sk. 



o'. 2 ad. sk. Lampoug, S.E. Sumatra {E. C. 



lllllt oil). 



;>'. $ ad. sk. ?X.E. Borneo. 



</'. 2 ad. sk. Labium. 



/•'. 2 ad. sk. Lawas River {Bwbidge). 



India Museum. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Wallace Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Salvin-Godmau Coll. 

 Sir II. Low [C.]. 

 II. Veitch, Esq.[C.]. 



'). TRERON. 



Type. 



Treron, Tirilt. Analyse, p. 49 (1816) T. curvirostra. 



Thoria, Sodas. J.--. Res. \i\. p. L68 (18303) T. nipalensis. 



Romeris, Hodge. J. A. 8. B. x. 1, p. 23 (1841) 

 (= Thoria), 



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