15. CARrOPHAGA. 201 



Zoo!, Soc. he. p. 216 (187-5); Salvad. Ann. Mm. Civ. Gen. vii. 

 p. 789 (1875), ix. p. 201, n. 40 (1876) ; Lens, J. f. 0. 1877, p. 377 ; 

 JRoxenb. Malay. Archip. p. 371 (1878-79) ; Salead. Orn. Pap. e 

 Mol. iii. p. 93 (1882) ; Bias. P. Z. S. 1882,p. 709 (Ceram) ; Meyer, 

 Sitzb. u. Abh. Ges. Jsis, 1884, Abh. i. p. 51 ; Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. 

 Sc. Tor. (2) xlii. p. 56 {Agg. Orn. Pap. e Mol, p. 182) (1891). 



Adult male, Head and neck grey, slightly darker on the hind 

 neck, paler on the breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts ; throat 

 and abdomen very slightly tinged with reddish or pale vinous ; 

 frontal edge and a ring round the eyes white ; grey colour of the 

 hind neck not sharply defined from the metallic-green colour of the 

 back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and upper wing-coverts ; some 

 feathers of these parts have blue reflections ; quills, except the 

 tertials, greyish blue ; tertials metallic green ; quills underneath 

 grey ; under wing-coverts pale grey ; tail above slate-blue, below 

 dark grey : " bill lead-colour, red at base above ; iris dark ; feet 

 purple" {Wallace). Length 18-86 inches, wing 10-60, bill 1-06- 

 1-02, tarsus 1>33. 



Hah. Amboyna Group — Ceram, Amboyna, and Boano. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Amboyna ( Wallace). Gould Coll. 



b. Ad. st. Amboyna. Leyden Museum 



[P.]. 



c,d. cT cad. et A\ ai, Amboyna, June (H. O. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2 juv. sk. Forbes). 



e. Ad. sk. Ceram. Wallace Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Ceram (Wallace). Gould Coll. 



g. Ad. sk. E. Ceram (71 r allace). Gould Cull. 



'/<■. Ad. sk. [Waigiuu] ( Wallace). Gould Cull. 



17. Carpophaga pickeringi. 



Carpophaga n?nea, Peale (nee Linn.) U.S. Expl. Evped., Zool. p. 198 

 (1848) (Mangai); Harti. Ai-cMvf. Naturg. 1852, p. 115 (part.). 



Carpophaga pickeringi!, Cass. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. vii. p. 228 

 (Mangsi) (1854); Pp. Com.pt. Bend, xliii. p. 835 (1856); Cass. 

 I', i. St. Expl. F.xp. 2nd ed. p. 267, pi. xxvii. (1858): Rchnb. 

 Taul.cn, ii. p. 184, Novit. Suppl. t. vi. f. 72 (1862); Wald. Tr. 

 Zoo/. Soc. ix. p. 215 (1875) ; Sharpe, Tr. Linn. Soc, Zih>!. i. p. 353 

 (1876); id. J'. Z. S 1879, p. 316; Tioeedd. Om. Works, v . 379 

 (1881 ) ; GuiUem. P. Z. x. 1885, pp. 248, 270 (Sulu Is!.), 418, 420 

 (Cagavan Sulu); Everett, Ibis, 1888, p. 282 ; id. Journ. Str. Pr. 

 P. As. Soc 1869, p. 195; Bias. J.f. O. 1890, p. 138. 



Carpophaga chalvbura, part., G. P. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 228, n.9196 

 (1*70). 



Carpophaga renea, part., Gieb. Then. Om. i. p. 583 (1872). 



Carpophaga everetta, Grant, Ann. ,v Mag. ^. 11. (0)ii. p. 35 1 il^si 

 (Mantauani Isl.) ; id. Ibis, 1889, p. 582. 



Adult male. Head and underparta greyish vinous, changing into 

 pore grey on the lower hind neck and upper mantle ; frontal edge, 

 a ring of feathers round the eyes, and chin whitish ; back, rump, 

 and wings greyish green (in some specimens with a slight brown 



