220 treeonid^:. 



35. Carpophaga poecilorrhoa. 



Carpophaga pcecilorrhoa, Briigg. Abh. Naturw. Ver. Brem. v. p. 84 



(1870) (Celebes). 

 Gymnophaps pcecilorrhoa, Pelz. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxvi. p. 720, 



"t. xiii. (1876); Gould, B. New Gum. pt. xi. pi. 8 (1880) ; Meyer, 



Ibis, 1881, p. 169 (North Celebes); Bias. J. f. O. 1883, p. 142; 



Hein. fy Rchmv. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. p." 282 (1890). 

 Carpophaga (Ducula), pp., Lenz, J.f. O. 1877, p. 378 (Celebes). 

 Gymnophaps minahassa (err.), (index) J. f. O. 1883, p. 437. 



Adult. General colour above glossy black, shot with olive-green ; 

 quills brown, with narrow reddish margins to the outer webs, as well 

 as to the greater wing-coverts ; tail blackish, tipped with a narrow 

 band of buffy white ; head and mantle dusky grey, somewhat more 

 vinous on the hind neck, the forehead lighter grey ; cheeks, ear- 

 coverts, and throat dull grey vinous ; lower throat darker ashy, as 

 also the adjacent sides of the neck ; the chest light ashy, extending 

 on to the sides of the neck, and forming a conspicuous patch on the 

 mantle ; abdomen vinous grey, remainder of under surface brown, 

 mottled with reddish-ochre margins to the feathers ; under tail- 

 coverts dark brown, with broad edgings of reddish ochre ; under 

 wing-coverts dusky brown, the axillaries rufous chestnut ; under 

 surface of quills dark ashy brown : " iris blood-red ; bill black violet- 

 red, with the tip grey-green ; feet and naked periocular skin cherry- 

 red " (Platen). Length about 18 inches, wing 9 - 04, tail 8, bill 0-85, 

 tarsus 1-22 (Tristram Coll.). 



The bird figured by Gould is young and of very small size, with 

 no vinous colour on the breast, and with the feathers of the same 

 edged with ochreous, like the abdomen. 



Hah. Northern Celebes. 



I. ZOXCENAS. m 



Type. 



Zoncenas, BcJinb. Av. Syst. Nat. p. xxvi (1852) C. muelleri. 



Zonrenas, Bp. (Jonsp. Av. ii. p. 37 (1854). 



Range. Papuan Islands. 



General plumage slate-grey or slate-black ; mostly with a light 

 band across the middle of the tail. 



Key to the Species. 



a Tail with a whitish band a little beyond the 

 middle. 



a.'. A black collar round the neck muelleri, p. 221. 



b No black collar round the neck. 



a". Upper and under wing-coverts almost 

 uniform. 

 a'". Upper part of the head grey ; hind 

 part of the neck and mantle vinous. 



