15. CARPOPHAGA. 221 



a 4 . Upper and under wing-coverts uni- 

 form, with no distinct lighter 



edges pinon, p. 222. 



b\ Upper aud under wing-coverts with 



lighter edges rubiensis, p. 223. 



b'". Upper part of the head, like the hind 



neck and mantle, vinous salvadorii, p. 223. 



b" . Upper and under wing-coverts blackish , , „->i 



i \ j- *• *i a a -ti \ toestermani, p. 224. 



slate, verv distinctly edi>ed with <>Tey { . ,,. - v „,. 

 t -i _-*i \-.- i u i aslrolamensis, p. 22o. 



lail with no whitish band. ' ' 



c'. General plumage and tail slate-black .... melanochroa, p. 225. 



d! . Upper parts slate-grey, head lighter ; 

 underparts vinous chestnut; under wing- 

 coverts chestnut ; tail chestnut, with a 

 slate-grey tinge above brenchlegi, p. 225. 



36. Carpophaga muelleri. 



Columba mullerii, Temm. PL Col. 566 (livr. 96, 1835) (type ex- 

 amined) ; Prev. §• Knip, Pig. ii. pi. 56 (1838-43) ; Mull. Verhand. 

 Land- en Volkerik. p. 22 (1839-44). 



Carpophaga niulleri, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 469, n. 20 (1844) ; Sclat. 

 Jour,/. Pi: Linn. Soc. ii. p. 168, n. 143 (1858); G. E. Gr. P. Z. S. 1858, 

 pp. 186, 196; id. Cat. B. New Guin. pp. 48, 61 (1859) ; id. P.Z. S. 

 1861, p. 437; Finsch, Neu-Guin. p. 177 (1865); Wall. J. f. 0. 

 1866, p. 281 ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 586 (1872) ; ScMeg. Mus. P.-B. 

 Columbae, p. 93 (1873) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. pp. 41, 

 202, n. 51 (1876) ; Bams. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. TV. i. p. 394 (1876) ; 

 Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiii. p. 319 (1S77), xiv. 502 (1877) ; 

 U'A/b. Sydn. Mail, 1877, p. 248 ; id. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. x. p. 18 

 (1877): Rams. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. hi. pp. 102, 291 (1878), 



pp. 251, 310, 403, 528, 584, 588 (1880) ; Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Mol. 



iii.p. 101 (1882). 

 Zoncenas niulleri, Rclmb. Av. Si/st. Nat. p. xxvi (1852) ; Bp. Cony?. 



Av. ii. p. 37 (1854) ; id. Compt. Rend, xxxix. p. 107b' (1854), xl. 



p. 217, n. 100 (1855); id. Coup d'ail Ordr. Pig. pp. 17, 55, 



n. 100 (1855); Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 112, t. 2:?2. f. 1293(1862), 



ii. p. 182 (1862) ; Rosenb. N. T. N. L. xxv. p. 249, n. 229 (1863) ; 



id. J. f. O. 1864, p. 132, n. 229; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 230, 



n. 9205 (1870) ; Soma, Mus. Nae. Lisb. ColumbsB, p. 10 (1873). 

 Carpophaga muelleri, Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. ?>87, n. (59 ; Sharpe, Journ. 



Linn. Soc, Zool. xri. p. 14l '> ( 1882) ; Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 660 ; 



Salvad. Mem. R. Ac Sc. Tor. (2) xlii. p. 57 (Agg. Orn. Pap. e 



Mol. p. 183) (1891). 



Adult male. Crown vinous, surrounded by a grey band, which 

 joins the grey throat ; a black collar, narrow in front and very 

 broad behind, surrounds the upper part of the neck ; lower part of 

 the neck in front and on the sides grey : lower part of the nape, 

 upper back, and upper breast deep purple-chestnut, blending into the 

 vinous-chestnut colour of the lower breast and abdomen ; under tail- 

 coverts purple-chestnut ; interscapular region, rump, upper tail- 

 coyerts, and wings slate-grey; tail dark slate-colour, darker below, 



