214 TEEEOXIDiE. 



Adult male. Upper part and sides of the hear], sides and hind 

 part of the neck ashy : back, rump, and basal upper tail-coverts 

 metallic green, with the edges of the feathers coppery ; longer 

 upper tail-coverts metallic bronze-green ; throat, fore neck, and 

 breast vinous reddish, blending into the cinnamon colour of the 

 abdomen, flanks, and tibial feathers ; vent whitish, with the tips of 

 the feathers cinnamon ; under tail-coverts cinnamon, more or less 

 brown on the hidden part ; wings metallic bronze-green ; primaries 

 brown, but steel-blue towards the base of the outer web ; second- 

 aries steel-blue, edged with metallic green on the outer web ; 

 tertials almost entirely metallic green ; quills underneath brown ; 

 under wing-coverts cinnamon : tail above steel-blue, with a dark 

 grey apical band, below greyish brown with the apical band lighter : 

 "bill black; feet dark purple; iris red" (UAlbertis). Length 

 16-11 inches, wing 7-47, tail 5-89, bill 0-86, tarsus 0-98. 



Female. Similar to the male. 



Hah. Arf'ak Mountains, New Guinea. 



a. Ad. sk. N.W. New Guinea. Salvin-Godman Cull. 



2. DucrLA. 



Type. 

 Ducula, Hodgs, As. Besenrc/tps, x\x. p. 160 (1836) ; id. in 

 Grm/'s Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844) ; id. J. A. S. B. xxiv. 



p. 580 (1855) C. insignis. 



Rinopus, Hodf/s. J. A. S. B. x. pt. l,p. 28 (1841) (= Du- 

 cula). 

 Rhinopus, Ilodf/s. in Grm/'s Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844) ; id. 

 J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 580 (1855). 



Range. From India, through the Burmese countries and the 

 Malay Peninsula to the Sunda Islands. 



Tail rather long, with a broad light band at the tip ; inner 

 primaries broad to the tip, which is cut obliquely, with a prominent 

 point formed by the tip of the shaft. 



Key to the Sjiecies. 



a. Under tail-coverts chestnut; back liver- 



brown, with no purple tinge ; head grey ; 



throat reddish vinaceous lacemulata, p. 215. 



b. Undertail-coverts whitish buff; throat white. 

 a'. Back liver-brown, with no purple tinge ; 



breast rather deep vinaceous cujvea, p. L'15. 



b' . Back liver-brown, 'with a slight purple 

 tinge. 

 a". Upper part of the head and cheeks 

 vinaceous, sometimes with a slight 



grey tinge insignis, p. 216. 



b" . Upper partof the head and cheeks grey, griseicapil/a, p. 217. 

 c'. Back and upper wing-coverts deep purple- 

 chestnut badia, p. 218 



