208 TREROXIDJE. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Grey tail-band about the middle. 



a'. Neck and crop-region golden green like tbe 

 upper parts; the green colour sharply 

 defined from the whitish breast and abdo- 

 men ; first primary much scooped about the 

 middle of the inner web. 

 a". Larger: throat white; breast and abdo- 

 men nearly pure white forsteni, p. 208. 



b". Smaller : throat rufous-chestnut ; breast- 

 vinous white poliocephala, p. 203. 



b'. Head and neck grey like the breast ; lower 

 hind neck deep blue and coppery red ; 

 outer three primaries much broadened 

 about the middle of the inner webs radiata, p. 210. 



b. Grey tail-band subapical, a green one at the tip . Jmscki, p. 211. 



c. Grey tail-band apical, 

 c'. Head entirely vinous. 



c". Tail above deep steel-blue basilica, p. 211. 



d". Base of tail above dull purple rufioentris, p. 212. 



d'. Head above and on the sides ashy grey, like 



the hind neck chalconota, p. 213. 



23. Carpophaga forsteni. 



Columba forsteri (en-ore pro forsteni), Tem?n. (nee Wagl.) 3IS. ; 



Knip <§- Prev. Pig. ii. pi. 47 (1838-43). 

 Carpophaga forsteri, G. R. Gr. {nee Wagl.) Gen. B. ii. p. 460, u. 17 



(1844) ; Cass. Pr. Ac. Nut. Sc. PhUad. 1854, p. 231 (Celebes) (syn. 



emend.) : Wall. J.f. O. 1866, p. 281. 

 Carpophaga albigularis, G. R. Gr. (ubii-) fide Bp. Compt. Rend, xxxix. 



p. 1077 (1854). 

 Hemiphaga forsteni, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 39 (1854) ; id. Compt. 



Rend, xxxix. p. 1077 (1854), xl. p. 217, n. 108 (1855), xli. p. 658 



(1855) ; id. Coup d'a?il Ordre Pig. pp. 17, 55, n. 108 (1855) ; G. R. Gr. 



Hand-list. ii. p. 231, n. 9224 (1870) ; WaU. Tr. Zool. Soc. viii. 



p. 84 (1872) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 672 (1877) ; 



Lenz, J. f. 6. 1877, p. 379: Meyer, Ibis, 1879, pp. 58, 137: 



Tweedd. Orn. Works, p. 184 (1881); Bias. J. f. O. 1883, p. 139; 



Hein. $ Rchnw. Nomad. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 283 (1890). 

 Carpophaga forsteni, G. R. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. Columba?, p. 22 



(1856) ; Wall. Ibis, 1860, p. 141, 1865, pp. 387, 398; Finsch, Neu- 



Guin. p. 178 (1865); Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 584 (1872); ScMeg. 



Mus. P.-B. Columba?, p. 93 (1873) ; Rosenb. Malay. Archip. p. 275 



(1878) ; Tristr. Cat. Cod. B. p. 42 (1889). 

 Hemiphaga forsteri, Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 836 (1856). 

 Zoncenas forsteni, Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 113 (1862), ii. p. 204, t. v. 



f. 61 (1862). 

 Zoncenas forsteri, Rchnb. Tauben, ii. p. 182 (1862). 



Adult male. Head grey, almost white on the forehead, and washed 

 with green on the hind part ; throat white ; neck, breast, and upper 

 parts splendid golden green, with a bronze tinge on the hind neck; 

 interscapular region tinged with mealy brown chestnut ; breast and 



