O. TMUlox. :{." 



(1878); Hume, Str. Feath. viii p. 109, n. 771 (1879); B%A «/•. 



Feath. ix. p. L93 (1880) ; ? Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 325 (Malacca) ; 



i&7i/t>. CW. />'. .SVr/r/.-/. Cotf, p. 557 (1882); Oates, Str. Feath. x. 



p. 235 (1882) ; id. B. Brit. Burnt. Li. p. 306 (1883) ; Anders. Journ, 



Linn. Soc., Zool. xxi. p. 152 (1887) (Mer<rui Archip.) ; Grant, Ann. 



A- Ma,,. X. H. (C) ii. p. 352 (1.SSS); //«„«., Str. Feath. xi. p. 289 



(1888); Salvad. Ann. Mux. Civ. Gen. (2) v. p. nil) (18sx), \ij. 



p. 423(1889); Hartert t J.f. 0. 1889, p. 405 ; «/. A«<. Vogehamml. 



p. 191 (1891). 

 Treron aromaticum, Low (wee Gm.), Sarawak, p. 411 (1848). 

 Treron nepalensis, Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. 370 (Sumatra); id. J. f. (). 



L866, p. 277; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 147; <7. i2. 6r. Sand-list, ii. 



p. 222, n. 9081 (1870); Tioeedd. Ihis, 1877, p. .321 (Lampong); 



Salvad. Ann. Mas. Civ. Gen. xiv. p. 240(lb79) (Sumatra) ; Tirau/, 



null. Com. Agr. et Ind. Cochinch. (3) i. p. 141, n. 250 (1879); 



7'«vWr/. Orn. Works, p. 502 (1881). 

 Treron nasica, Sharpe (nee Schley.), 7V. ZzVm. Soc, Zool. i. p. 340 



(187(3) (Palawan) ; 7'<rwM. P. Z. <S. 1878, p. 623 (Palawan) ; id. 



<)m. Works, pp. 182, 502, 618 (1881); Wardl. Earns. Ttceedd. 



Orn. Works, p. 659 (1881); Sharpe, Ibis, 1888, p. 202 (Palawan) ; 



Grant, Ann. §■ .lA/y. 2V. J7. (6) ii. p. 352 (1888) (Banguey) ; Bias. 



Ornis, iv. p. 316 (1888) ; Everett, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 226 ; id. Joan}, 



Str. Br. ii. As. Soc. 1889, p. 196 (part.) ; Vorderm. X. T. X. I. 



xlix. p. 412 (1889), 1. p. 499 (1890) (Billiton); Whifeh. Ibis, 



L890, p. 56 (Palawan) ; ? Steere, List, p. 24 (1890) (Paragua, Min- 



doro) ; Ilartert, J.f. O. 1891, p. 301. 

 Treron nasica, Oust, [nee Schle//.) Xoud. Arch. Mus. (2) ii. p. 2'.KJ 



(1879) (Hue, Annam). 

 Rharxrphotreron nipalensis, Heine •$• JRchnio. Xomencl. Mus. Hein. 



Orn. p. 279 (1890). 



Adult male. Crown ashy, paler on the forehead ; neck, rump, 

 upper tail-coverts, breast, and abdomen olive-green; mantle and 

 smaller upper wing-coverts chestnut ; breast with a very faint, almost 

 imperceptible tinge of fulvous; sides leaden grey; flanks green 

 mixed with white ; under tail-coverts cinnamon ; wings, except the 

 chestnut upper wing-coverts, black; median and greater upper 

 wing-coverts and also the secondaries edged with yellow ; under 

 surface of the wiDgs leaden grey; tail above olive-green on the 

 middle feathers, grey on the outer ones, which show a median black 

 band and a broad apical grey band"; tail underneath grey, with a 

 black medial band ; the apical grey band very broad : " legs and 

 feet vary from lake-pink to coral-red ; the orbital skin is pea-green ; 

 the bides vary from bright orange to yellowish red, with an inner 

 deep blue ring moro or less apparent; the gape and base of upper 

 mandible to nostrils bright red ; the rest of the bill pale yellowish, 

 or greenish white, tipped greenish " {Hume). Total length about 

 lo-4 inches, wing 5'62-6"76, tail 3"46-3"35, bill 0-6, tarsus 0'75-0 - 9. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in having the maroon of the 

 upper plumage replaced by olive-green, and the under tail-covens 

 white, or buff-white, irregularly barred with green. 



Specimens from the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and 

 the Philippines are smaller and duller than tlioso from Nepal and 

 Tenasserim. 



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