15. CARrOPHAGA. 183 



greenish blue, underneath greenish brown j under tail-coverts 

 bronze-green, with the base more or less chestnut: "bill ashy; 

 irides and feet red " {Modigliani). Length 15*1L inches, wing 1D22, 

 tail 5-89, bill 0-86, tarsus' D29. 



Female. Like the male. 



llab. Engano, off the West coast of Sumatra. 



a, b. c* $ ad. sk. Engano. Dr. Modigliani [C.]. 



(Two of the types of the species.) 



3. Carpophaga insularis. 



Carpophaga sylvatica, var., Myth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 371 (1846) ; id. 

 Cat. B. Mus. A. 8. B. p. 231, n. 1401 (part.) (18491 ; llartl. J. f. 0. 

 1854, p. 319. 



Carpophaga amea, part., Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 32 (specim. ex ins. Nico- 

 baricis) (1854) ; Gie.b. Thes. Orn. i. p. 585 (1872). 



Carpophap-a insularis, Blyth, J. A. 8. B. xxvii. p. 270 (1858) ; Wall. 

 Ibis, 1865, pp. 383, 398; id. J. f. O. i860, p. 280 ; Blyth, 

 Ibis, 1868, p. 133; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 228, n. 9174 

 (1870); Ball, J. A. 8. B. xxxix. pt. 2, p. 32 (1870); id. Sir. 

 Feath. i. p. 79 (1873) (Nicobars) ; Hume, Sir. Feath. ii. p. 262 

 (1874); Wald. Tr. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 216 (1875); Hume, Str. 

 Feath. viii. p. 10!), n. 780 bis (1879): Leyge, B. of Ceyl. p. 710 

 (1880); Tweedd. Orn. Works,?. 379 (1881) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. 

 p. 42 (1889). 



Carpophaga aanea, var. nicobarica, Pelz. Novara Exped., Vbgel, p. 105 

 (1865). 



Adult male. Head, neck, upper mantle, breast, and abdomen 

 grey, somewhat lighter on the forehead, and with no tinge whatever 

 of vinaceous ; back, rump, and wings dark metallic green, with a 

 bluish tinge on some feathers ; under tail-coverts dull chestnut, 

 more or less changing into dark green, especially on the longest 

 ones ; quills above black, with the outer webs dark greyish green, 

 with a dusty appearance, underneath brown-grey ; under wing- 

 eoverts grey with a greenish lustre ; tail above dark bluish green, 

 underneath blackish brown : '• legs and feet dull deep pink, pinkish 

 red, or livid purple ; bill pale plumbeous, paler at tip, and darker 

 on cere and base ; irides sometimes pale ruby-red, sometimes clear, 

 and sometimes dull lake-red ; eyelid pale lavender. Length 17'5 

 to 19-5 inches, wing 9 to 10*25, tail from vent to 7, bill at front 



kl to 1*27, tarsus 1*1 to l-2b " {Hume). 

 Female. Similar to the male. 

 Ilab. Nicobars. 

 a. $ ad. sk. Great Xicobar, April (A. de Hume Coll. 



Roepstorff). 

 b, c,d. cJ 2 a( h J k. Camorta 1., Jan., Feb. (Jf. Hume Coll. 

 Davison). 

 e,f- 6 9- ad. sk. Camorta I., Dec, Jan. (B. J. Tweeddale Coll. 



Wimberley). 

 g. cJ ad. sk. Nnncowry 1., Feb. ( W. Davi- Hume Coll. 



son). 



