6. 0SM0TREK0N. 4'i 



(j. (J ad. sk. Khandala, May [8. B. Hume Coll. 



Fair bank), 

 h'-p'. d $ad. et Khandala, March to May Tweeddale Coll. 



juv. sk. (S. B. Fairbank). 



6. Osmotreron aromatica. (Plate III.) 



Columba viridis amboinensis, Briss. Orn. i. p. 145, n. 39, pi. x. {'. 2 



(1760); lip. Consp. Av. ii. p. 13 (1854). 

 PPigeon vert d'Amboine, HAubent. PI. Enl. 163; Buff. Hist. 



Nat. Ois. ii. p. 528 (1771); Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 3 



(1881). 

 ? Columba amboinensis, Mull, (nee Linn.) Syst. Nat. Suppl.j). 132 



(1776) ; Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 1864, p. 248. 

 Columba aromatica, Om. 8. N. i. p. 778, n. 47 (1788) (e.v Brisson) ; 



Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 599, n. 23 (1790) ; Bonn. Enc. Mith. i. 



p. 242, pi. 78. f. 3 (1790) ; Temm. Hist Nat. Pig. i. p. 441 (part.) 



(1813) : Pieill. N. D. xxvi. p. 392 ( 1880) ; Steph. Gen. Zoo!, xi. 1, 



p. 273 (1819); Desm. Bid. So. Nat. xl. p. 366 (part.) (1826); 



Wagl. Syst, Av. Columba. n. 7 (part.) (1827); Less. Tr. d'Orn. 



p. 476 (part.) (1831 ); id. Compl. de Buff. viii. p. 18 (part.) (1837), 



2nd ed. p. 274 (1838). 

 Vinago aromatica. Cue. Berpie An. i. p. 457 (1817) ; Steph. Gen. 



Zool. xi. 1, p. 100 (part.) (1819). 

 Treron aromatica, G. B. Gr. List Gen. B. p. 57 (1840) ; id. Gen. 11. 



ii. p. 467, n. 1 (part.) (1844) ; Bchnh. At: Syst. Nat. p. xxvi ( 1852) : 



G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 360 ; : j Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 109 (1862 I, 



ii. p. LSI, Suppl. t. v. tr". 54-55 (d 1 ), 56-57 (?) (1862); Wall. 



P. Z. S. 1868, pp. 18, 33; id. Ibis, L863, pp. 318, 319; Finsch, 



Neu-Guin. p. 176 (1805); Wall. Ibis, 1805, pp. 374, 396, n. 5 ; 



id. J. f. O. 1866, p. 277, n. 5; Sckleg. N. T. I), iii. p. 210, and 



p. 346 (part.) (1866) ; id. Mas. I'.-B. Oolumlxe, p. 52 (part., specim. 



from Burn) (1873); J Liu. u. JRchnw. Nomencl. Mus. Hem. Orn. 



p. 279 (1890); ? Hartert, Eat. Vvyelsamml. p. 191 (1891) 



(Amboina ! J ). 

 ? Dendrophassa aromatica, Glog. Gem. Hand- u. Hil/s. d. Naturg. 



p. 359 (1842). 

 POsmotreron axillaris, Rchnb. (nee Gr.) Tauben, ii. p. 180, Nor it. 



Suppl. t. iv. f. 45 (1862) {ex 1>I. Enl. 163). 

 Treron amboinensis, part., G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 222, n. 9079 



(1870). 

 Osmotreron aromatica, Jf aid, Tr. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 211 (1875); 



Saivnd. Ann. Mus. Civ. Qenov. viii. p. 380 (1876), ix. p. 11*5. n. 1 



(1876); id. Orn. Tup. e Mol. iii. p.l (1882); Forbes, Natural. 

 Wander, p. 410 (1885) (Bouru, Amboina!, Ceram !). 

 Columba amb inensis, Wold, (nee P. L. S. Mull.?) Tr. Zool. Soc. 



ix. p. 212 (1875). 



Adult nude. Upper part of the head and a band across the upper 

 mantle grey, Lighter on the forehead; superciliary stripes, aides of 

 tiic bead, neck, and breast bright yellow-green, duller on the hind 

 neck : mantle and innermost smaller upper wiug-ooverts dark purple- 

 chestnut; rump and upper bail-coverts olive-green; abdomen 

 greenish grey ; sides light grey ; flanks green, with the edges of the 

 feathers white; vent white, mingled with green ; under bail-coverts 



