188 TRERONID^. 



P> 'J- 6 ? ad. sk. Tenimber I., Aug., Sept. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(H. O. Forbes). 

 >', $. d 2 ad. sk. Tenimber I., Aug. H. 0. Forbes, Esq. 



[0.]. 

 t. Ad. sk. Sanghir I. Tweeddale Ooll. 



u. Ad. sk. Sanghir I. Salvin-Godinan Coll. 



6. Carpophaga geelvinkiana. 



Carpophaga geelvinkiana, Schley. Mus. P.-B. Columbas, p. 86 

 (1873) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. p. 200, n. 10 (1876) ; 

 Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 793 (1877) ; Rosenb. Malay. Archip. p. 561 

 (1879) ; Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 84 (1882). 



Carpophaga roseinucba, Rosenb. (nee Schley.) Reist. naar Geelvinkb. 

 p. 36 (1875) (Mafoor). 



Adult male. Head, neck, and upper breast grey ; frontal edge 

 whitish ; the grey colour of the neck sharply denned from the 

 colour of the back ; lower breast and abdomen pale vinous ; under 

 tail-coverts chestnut ; back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and upper 

 ■wing-coverts metallic golden or bronze-green, with some blue reflec- 

 tions ; quills steel blue-black ; secondaries metallic blue-green ; 

 quills underneath slate-black ; under wing-coverts dark grey ; tail 

 above metallic steel-blue, below black : " bill black ; feet coral-red ; 

 iris golden yellow; eyelids yellow" (Beccari). Length 1 Gil— 

 ln-33 inches, wing 9-98-9-11, tail 6-09-5-89, bill 1-14-1-02, 

 tarsus 1-25. 



Female. Like the male. 



The feathers on the frontal edge do not come forward in a 

 point as in C. cn?icinna, but keep backward at the base of the bill 

 in a straight line. 



Hab. Geelvink Bay Islands — Miosnom, Mafoor, Misori. 



a, b. £ 5 ad. sk. Mysori (Dr. A. B. Meyer). Tweeddale Coll. 



7. Carpophaga paulina. 



Columba senea, 2 , Temm. §• Knip, Pic/., fain, seconde, pi. 4 (1808- 



11) ; Temm. Hist. Nat. Pig. et Gall. i. pp. 91, 446 (1813) ; Vieill. 



N. D. xxvi. p. 363 (1818) ; Steph, Gen. Zool. xi. p. 21 (1819) ; 



Desm. Diet. Sc. Nat. xl. p. 315 (1826). 

 Columba renea, part., Wayl. Syst. Av. Columba, sp. 15 (1827). 

 Carpophaga apnea, part., G. P. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 468, n. 1 (1844) ; 



Rc/uib. Syn. Av. Columbaria?, Novitiee, f. 3360 (1851). 

 Columba paulina, Temm. in Mus. Luyd. unde 

 Ducula paulina, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 35 (1854) ; id. Compt. Pend. 



xxxix. p. 1076 (1854), xl. p. 217, n. 94 (1855) ; id. Coup d'ceil Ordre 



Pig. pp. 16, 55, n. 94 (1855); Rrhnb. Tauben, i. p. 115, t. 230 6. 



f. 3360 (1862), ii. p. 199, Novit. Suppl. t. vi. f. 69 (1862) ; ? Sousa, 



Mus. Nac. Lisb. Columba;, p. 10 (1873) (Mindanao!). 

 Carpophaga rufinuchalis, Cass. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1854, p. 228 



(1854). 

 Carpophaga paulina, Bp. Compt. Rend. xli. p. 247 (1855), xliii. p. 836 



(1856) ; G. R. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. Columba;, p. 17 (1856); Wall. 



P. Z. S. 1862, p. 345 (Sula Isl.) ; id. Ibis, 1865, pp. 385, 398 ; Finsch, 



