198 TRF.K0NID.E. 



Adult male. Upper part of the head and hind neck mealy grey, 

 changing into meal} - or dusty green on the hack, rump, and wings : 

 upper tail-coverts purer metallic green ; frontal edge, chin, and 

 periophthalmic feathers white; cheeks, throat, and breast light 

 vinous ; abdomen pale grey ; under tail-coverts chestnut ; quills 

 blackish, with a mealy or dusty bluish tinge on the outer webs, 

 underneath dark brown-grey ; under wing-coverts grey ; tail above 

 dark steel-blue, with a green tinge on the edges of the outer webs : 

 underneath blackish brown : " iris lake ; margin of eyelids and base 

 of upper mandible crimson " (Macgillivray) ; rest of the bill black : 

 " feet cherry-red " (G. E. Richards). Total length about 16 inches, 

 wing 10, tail 6, bill 0-9, tarsus 1-2. 



Female. Similar to the male. 



This species very much resembles 0. van-wycki, from which it 

 differs in being somewhat more mealy above, and in having the 

 pale vinous colour not confined to the cheeks and throat, but 

 spreading down on the breast. 



Hah. Solomon Islands. 



a, b. S ad. & San Christoval {J. Macgilli- Voyage of H.M.S. 

 ad.sk. vrai/). 'Herald.' 



c. Ad. sk. San Christoval. J. Brenchley [P.l. 



d. $ ad. sk. San Christoval (G. E. Salvin-Godinan Coll. 



Richards). 



e. Ad. sk. Ugi. Tweeddale Coll. 



1 4. Carpophaga rosacea. 



Culumba rosacea, Temni. PI. Col. 578 (livr. 98, 1835) (tvpe examined) ; 

 Prev. # Knip, Pig. ii. pi. 34 (1833-43); Mull. Verhandl. Land- en 

 Volkenk. p. 159 (1839-44). 



Carpophaga rosacea, G. R. Gr. List of Galling Brit. Mus. p. 6 

 (1844) : id. Gen. B. ii. p. 469, n. 15 (1844) ; Cass. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. 

 Philad. 1854, p. 227; G. R. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. Columba?, 

 p. 17 (1856) ; Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 486 ; id. Ibis, 1865, p. 38(5, 

 n. 62; Schleg. N. T. I), iii. pp. 201, 315 (1865) ; Finsch, Neu- 

 Guin. p. 177(1865); ? Bh/th, Ibis, 1870, p. 173 (Timor); Gieb. 

 Thes. On;, i. p. 588 (1872); Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Columbie, p. 87 

 (1873); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. p. 200, n. 42 (1876); 

 Cab. Sr Rchnw. J. f. O. 1876, p. 325 ; Rosenb. Malay. Archip. 

 p. 371 (1879) ; Sahad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xiv. p. 600 (1879) ; 

 id. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 89 (1882) : Sclat. P. Z. S. 1883, pp. 51, 

 195, 200 (Timorlant) ; Forbes, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 433; Tristr. Cat. 

 Coll. B. p. 42 (1889) (Timor) ; Salwd. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) 

 xlii. p. 56 (Agg. Orn. Pap. e Mol. p. 182) (]891). 



Ducula rosacea, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 36 (1854) : id. Compt. Rend. 

 xxxix. p. 1075 (1854), xl. p. 217, n. 93 (1855); id. Coup d'ceil 

 Ordre Pig. pp. 16, 55, n. 93 (1855); Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 115, 

 n. 286, t. 228. f. 1275 (1862); G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 230, 

 n. 9197 (1870) ; Tf "aid. Tr. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 84 (1872) ; Meyer, 

 Ibis, 1 879, p. 136; Hein. Sf Rchnic. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. 

 p. 282 (1890). 



