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tinge\ with a metallic lustre in some lights ; longer upper tail- 

 coverts and tail above metallic bottle-green ; primaries mealy green, 

 especially on the outer webs ; under surface of the wings and of the 

 tail grey ; under tail-coverts grey, with a reddish tinge : " iris 

 crimson, bill light lead-grey ; feet dull crimson " (Everett). Total 

 length about 16 inches, wing 9-5, tail 6'8, bill 078, tarsus 1*1. 



Female. Similar to the male. 



Hah. Mangsi, Mergalun, Mantanani, and Sulu Islands, round the 

 northern and N.E. coast of Borneo. 



a. J ad. sk. Sulu Islands (H. Guillemard). Hon. W. Rothschild 



[P.]. 



b. 9 ad. sk. Mantanani. A. H. Everett, Esq. 



[C.]. 



18. Carpophaga cineracea. 



Columba cineracea, Tenun. PI. Col. 563 (livr. 95, 1835) ; Less. Compl. 

 de Buff., Ois. viii. p. 41 (1837) ; id. op. cit. 2nd ed. p. 280 (1838). 



Carpophaga cineracea, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 469, n. 18 (1844) ; 

 Rchnb. Syn. Av. Columbaria?, f. 1272 ( 1847) ; Wall. P. Z. S. 

 1863, p. 486 ; id. Ibis, 1865, pp. 385. 398 ; id. J. f. 0. 1866, 

 p. 281; Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 584 (1872); Schley. Mas. P.-B. 

 Columbae, p. 91 (1873) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 42 (1889). 



Ducula cineracea, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 36 (1854) ; id. Compt. Bend. 

 xxxix. p. 1075 (1854), xl. p. 217, n. 92 (1855) ; id. Coup d'ceil 

 Ordr. Pig. pp. 16, 55, n. 92 (1855) ; Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 115, 

 t. 228. f. 1272 (1862) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 230, n. 9195 

 (1870). 



Adult male. Head and hind neck ashy ; back and rump darker ; 

 wings, upper tail-coverts, and upper surface of the tail dark grey with 

 an olive lustre ; middle of the throat, fore neck, and breast vinous, 

 changing into pale ochreous on the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; 

 the longest of the latter with a brownish tinge along the middle ; 

 primaries brown-grey, with a narrow ochreous edge on the outer 

 web ; under wing-coverts grey ; under surface of the quills brown- 

 grey with an ochreous lustre : under surface of the tail grey : " iris 

 dark ; bill black ; feet purplish black " ( Wallace). Total length 

 about 16-5 inches, wing: 8 - 5, tail 7, bill 085, tarsus 1*05. 



Female. Similar to the male. 



Young. Has the primary-coverts and the quills more broadly 

 edged with rufous, and the tail-feathers tipped with the same 

 colour. 



Hab. Timor. 



a. Ad. st. Timor. Leyden Museum. 



b, c. 2 ad.etjuv. E.Timor. "Wallace Coll. 

 rf.Ad.sk. Timor {A. JR. Wallace). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



19. Carpophaga latrans. 



Carpophaga latrans, Peale, Z'.S. JExpl. Exped. p. 200, pi. 55 

 (1848) ; Hartl. Wieym. Areh.f. Naturg. 1852, p. 116 ; id. J.f. O. 



