222 TEERONTD.E. 



and with a transverse grey band about the middle : " feet purplish 

 red; bill black; orbits pale ; iris olive-brown "( Wallace). Length 

 16-50-16-11 inches, wing 9-04-8-45, tail 5-70-5-30, bill 0-86-0-82, 

 tarsus 1-14-1-10. 



Female. Like the male. 



Hub. Southern New Guinea and Aru Islands. 



a, b, c. J2 ad. sk. Aru Islands. Wallace Coll. 



d, e. Ad. et iinm. sk. Port Moresby {A. Goldie). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



/. <$ ad. sk. S.E. New Guinea, Nov. Tweeddale Coll. 



37. Carpophaga pinon. 



Columba pinon, Q. $ G. Voy de VUran., Zool. p. 118, pi. 28 (1824) 



(type examined) ; Desm. Diet. d' Hist. Nat. xl. p. 3^0, pi. 29. f. 2 



(1826); Lets. Voy. Coq., Zool. i. p. 312 (1826); Wayl. Syst. Av. 



Columba, sp. 17 (1827); Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 469 (1831); id. 



Compl. de Buff., Ois. viii. p. 88 (1837) : id. op. cit. 2nd ed. p. 293 



(1838) ; Prei: $ Knip, Tig. ii. p. 15 (1838-43). 

 Carpophaga pinon, Selb. Nat. Libr., Pii/emts, p. 1 lij f 1835) ; G. R. Gr. 



Gen. B. ii. p. 468, n. 10 (1844) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mm. A. S. B. 



p. 232, n. 1405 (1849) ; Cass. Pi: Ac. Nut. Sc. Philad. 1854, p. 230 ; 



G. P. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. Columba?, p. 23 (1856 1 : WaU. Ann. Sf 



Mag. N. II. (2) xx. p. 476 (1857) ; Sclat. Jvurn. Pr. Linn. Soc. ii. 



p. l'(i8, n. 144 (1858); G. P. Gr. P.Z. S. 1^58, ]ip. 180, 195; id. 



Cat. B. New Guin. pp. 48, 60 (1859) ; id. P. Z. 8. 1859, p. 159, 1801, 



p. 437; Finsch, Neu-Guin. p. 178 (1865); Wall. Ibis, 1865, 

 p. 387, n. 70; id. J.f. O. 1866, p. 281, n. 70; Rosenb. Peis naar 

 Zuidoostereil. p. 49 (1867); Gich. The*. Orn. i. p. 587 (1872); 

 Schley. Mus. P.-B. Columba;, p. 94 (1873) ; Pelz. Verh. z-b. Get. 



TVien, 1876, p. 719; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. pp. 41, 202, 

 n. 52 (1876), x. p. 159 (1877) ; Earns. Pr. Linn. Sac. N. S. II'. i. 

 p. 394 (1876); Sharpe, Jotirn. Pr. Linn. Soc., Zool. xiii. pp. 319, 

 502 (1877) ; Rams. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. iii. pp. 102, 292 (1878), 

 iv. p. 101, n. 162 (1879) (Port Moresby, Suuth Cape!, Puke of 

 York group!, Solomon Islands!); Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc., 

 Zool. xiv. p. 688 (1879) ; Rosenb. Malay. Archip. pp. 372, 396, 

 561 (1879); BAlb. Nuova Guin. pp. 458, 682, 584, 588 (1881); 

 Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 103 (1882) ; Meyer, AbUU. Voyel- 

 Skel. t. xxix. (1882) ; id. Zeitschr. f. (/es. Orn. i. p. 294 (ef.«rs) 

 (1884); Nehrk. J. f. O. 1885, p. 34; Guillem. P.Z.S. 1885, 

 p. 6c0 ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 42 (1889) ; Salvad. Mem. P. Ac. 

 Sc. Tor. (2) xlii. p. 57 {Agg. Orn. Pap. e Mol. p. 183) (1891). 

 Zonoenas pinon, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 37 (1854); id. Compt. Rend. 

 xxxix. p. 10;6 (1854), xl. p. 217. n. 101 (1855); id. Coup d 'ail 

 Ordr. Pit/, pp. 17, 55, n. 101 (1855) ; Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 112, 

 t. 232. f. i294 (1862), ii. p. 182. Novit. Suppl. t. v. ft". 62, 63 (1862); 

 Rosenb. N. T. N. I. xxv. p. 249, n. 230 (1863) ; id. J. f. O. 1864, 

 p. 132, n. 230; G. P. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 230, n. 9204 (1870); 

 Sousa, Mus. Nac. Lisb. Columba?, p. 11 (1873); Ilein. §• Rchnw. 

 Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 282 (1890). 

 Muscadivora pinon, Schley. Dierent. p. 210 (1864). 

 Carpophaga pinonte, Bruyyem. Abhandl. naturw. Ver. Brem. v. 

 p. 86 (1876). 



Adult male. A band at the base of the bill, chin, and a ring 

 of feathers edging the naked space round the eyes white; crowu 





