178 TRERO> T ID.£. 



Muscadivora myristicivora, Schlep. Dierent. p. 210 (1864). 

 Carpophaga tumida, Wall. Ibis, I860, p. 882, n. 47 (Waigiou, 



Mysol, New Guinea) ; id. Malay. Archip. ii. p. 344 (1869) ; Schley. 



Mus. P.-B. Columbse, p. 81 (1873) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 



vii. p. 788, n. 131 (1875); Rosenb. Malay. Archip. p. 561 (1879). 

 Carpophaga roseinucha, part., Sch'eg. N. T. D. iii. pp. 197, 344 (1865). 

 Globicera myristicivora, part., G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 229, n. 9175 



(1870). 

 Globicera tumida, part., G. R. Gr. op. cit. n. 9176 (1870). 

 ? Carpophaga temmincki, Tristr. {nee Wall. ?) Cut. Coll. B. p. 43 



(Waigiou, New Guinea) (1889). 



Adult. Head, neck, and upper breast pale ashy ; frontal edge and 

 chin white ; hind neck pale vinous ; lower breast and abdomen 

 pale vinous ; under tail-coverts chestnut : back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts metallic green with some blue tinge ; quills and tail 

 above dark steel-blue ; quills and tail below brown ; under wing- 

 coverts dark grey : bill and knob at the base lead-black ; feet and 

 irides red. Length about 19 to 18-25 inches, wing 10*25 to 9-8, 

 tail 6, bill 1 to 0-9, tarsus 1-25. 



Young. No knob at the base of the bill ; under tail-coverts of a 

 pale chestnut, and tail above more green. 



Hal. Western New Guinea and the surrounding Western Papuan 

 Islands. 



a. Ad. st. New Guinea. J. Beale, Esq. [P.]. 



h. Ad. st. New Guinea. Purchased. 



c Ad. sk. N.W. New Guinea. Salyin-Godman Coll. 



d,e. <S, $ ad.sk. Waigiou. Wallace Coll. (Types 



of Carpophaga tumida, Wall.) 



f. Ad. sk. Waigiou (Rosenberg). Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



'g. 2 a< i- sk - Mysol. Wallace Coll. 



h.i. 2 ad.sk. Mysol, Jan., June (Rosenberg). Tweeddale Coll. 



4. Globicera rubricera. 



Coluruba pinon (!), Less, (nee Q. et G.) Toy. Cuq. Zool. i. p. 342 



(1826) (Nouvelle hlande). 

 Carpophaga rubricera, G. R. Gr. Mus. Brit. (Bp. Consp. Av. 



ii. p. 31) (1854, November 8); G. R. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. 



Columbte, p. 18 (part., specim. a only) (1856*) ; ? Sclat. P. Z. S. 



1862, p. 141 (Solomon Islands !) ; Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. 383, n. 49 ; 



? Sclat. P. Z. S. 1869, pp. 119, 123, 124 (part.) ; Gieb. T/ies. Orn. 



i. p. 588 (1872); Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Columbse, p. 81 (New 



Ireland) (1873) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. p. 200, 



n. 38 (part.) (1876) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 109 (part), 1878, 



nnn i?ri . 77;7\ j t> rr c< l oro - tc in . c>„; 7 i\/r, 



Ibis, 1880, p. 306 (New Hanover); Fimch, Ibis, 1881, pp. 585, 

 538 (New Britain); Tristr. Ibis, 1882, p. 144, n. 79; Salvad. 

 Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. pp. 79, 557 (1882) ; Finsch, Vbg. der 

 Siidsee, p. 18 (New Britain) (1884) ; Sharpe, in Gould's B. New Gain. 



* Mr. Gray gives the incomplete reference P. Z. S. 1853, p. . . . , which is 

 certainly a mistake. 



