216 TEEBOHIDJE. 



Adult male. Head, neck, mantle, and underparts greyish vinous, 

 more greyish on the hind neck and mantle : throat white ; under 

 tail-coverts buff- white ; back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and wings 

 greyish brown, rump and upper tail-coverts somewhat greyer ; 

 primaries above dusky black, underneath greyish brown ; under 

 wing-coverts dark grey ; tail above slate-black, darker about the 

 middle, and with a broad apical band, underneath paler : " irides, 

 orbits, and feet red ; bill red at base, cinereous at tip " (Jerdon). 

 Total length about 18 inches, wing 9-25, tail 6-75, bill 085, 

 tarsus 1-05. 



Female. Similar to the male, only somewhat smaller. 



Hub. Southern India. 



a, b, c. c?5 a d- Mynall, Travancore, Nov. T. Bourdillon, Esq. [C.]. 



sk. 

 d-h. (5 § ad. sk. MynaU, Travancore, Jan., Hume Coll. 

 March, Dec. (F. Bour- 

 dillon ) . 

 i. Ad. sk. Ancola, X. Canara, April. Hume Coll. 



k. Ad. sk. Malabar. Tweeddale Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Madras. W. Elliot, Esq. [P.]. 



32. Carpophaga insignis. 



Ducula insignis, Hodgs. As. Res. xix. p. 162, pi. ix. (head and foot) 

 (1836) ; Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 34 (1854) ; id. Compt. Rend, xxxix. 

 p. 1075 (1854), lx. p. 217, n. 89 (1855) ; id. Coup d'ceil Ordr. Pig. 

 pp. 16, 55, n. 89 (1855) ; Gray, Cat. Rodqs. Coll. B. M. 2nd ed. 

 p. 67 (1863); Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. 386; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. 

 p. 230, n. 9194 (part.) (1870) ; WaU. Ibis, 1875, p. 459. 



Carpophaga insignis, G. R. Gr. List Gallince B. Mus. p. 6 (1844) ; 

 id. Gen. B. ii. p. 468, n. 12 (1844) ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 855 

 (1845?); Gray, Cat. Hodgs. Coll. B. M. p. 122 (1846); Bhjth, 

 Ann. §■ Mag. N. H. xix. p. 51 (1847) ; id. Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. 

 p. 232, n. 1404 (part.) (1849) ; G. R. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. Co- 

 lumbffi, p. 19 (1856); Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 114 (1862): Jerd. B. 

 of Ind. iii. p. 458 (1864) ; Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. 398 ; Bh/th, Ibis, 

 1867, p. 148, 1870, p. 173; Gieb. Thes. Ore. i. p. 585 (part.) 

 (1872) ; Hume, Nests # Eggs, iii. p. 496 (1873) : id. Str. Feath. 

 iii. p. '328 (1875), viii. p. 109 (1879) ; Salt: Cat. B. StricJd. Coll. 

 p. 554 (1882) ; Hume, Str. Feath. xi. p. 295 (1888) (Shillong) ; 

 Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 42 (1889). 



Ehinopus (Ducula) insignis, Hodgs. Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844) ; 

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



Carpophaga hadia, part., Cass. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1854, p. 229 

 (India) ; Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Colunibse, p. 96 (1873). 



Adult male. Upper part of the head and of the cheeks, below the 

 eyes, pale reddish vinous, changing into greyish vinaceous on the 

 hind neck ; interscapular region aud smaller wing-coverts brown 

 tinged with purplish chestnut ; rest of the wing-coverts, scapulars, 

 and secondaries brown greyish olive; lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts dark grey, the longer ones brown-grey ; lower part of 

 the cheeks and throat white ; crop-region, breast, and abdomen 



