17. MYRISTICIVORA. 227 



tail-coverts tinged with rufous ; central tail-feathers brown-hlack, 

 with no chestnut about the middle ; lateral tail-feathers less blackish 

 at the tip. 



Hub. Isle of Pmes and New Caledonia. 



a. Ad. st. Isle of Pines. Cuming Coll. 



(Type of species.) 

 i,c. 5 ad. et cS Moindou, N. Caledonia, July, Tweeddale Coll. 



juv. sk. Oct. {E. L. Layard). 



17. MYRISTICIVORA. 



Type. 



Myristicivora, Rchnb. Av. Syst. Nat. p. xxvi (1852) .... M. bicolor. 



Cf. Salvadori, T., Osservazioni interna alle specie del yenere Myristi- 

 civora, Rchnb. {Ann. Mm. Civ. Gen. ix. pp. 265-277, 1877). 



Iianc/e. From the Malay Peninsula, Nicobars, and Andamans, 

 through the Malay Archipelago, to Australia. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Primaries and secondaries black ; the innermost 



of the latter white. 

 «'. Under tail-coverts either pure white, or 

 with black spots, irregular, not very con- 

 spicuous, move or less broad and more or 

 less numerous ; apical portion of the tail 

 black; outer tail-feather, towards the tip 



of the outer web, mostly white bicolor, p. 227. 



b'. Under tail-coverts with regular black spots; 

 tail as in M. bicolor. 

 a". Plumage white ; wing-coverts, between 



alula and prirnary-coverts, white spilorrhoa, p. 231. 



b''. Plumage yellowish white; wing-coverts, 

 between alula and primary-coverts, 



black , subflavescens, p. 232. 



c'. Only the basal under tail-coverts with broad 

 and conspicuous black spots ; black apical 

 band of the tail very broad; outer tail- 

 feather for the greater part or entirely black 

 on the outer web melanura, p. 233. 



b. All the quills mealy slate-grey, edged with 



black ; under tail-coverts as in J/, melanura, 



and tail as in M. bicolor and M. spilorrhoa . . luctuosa, p. 233. 



1. Myristicivora bicolor. 



Pigeon ou Rainier blanc mangeur de museade de la Nouvelle GuineV, 



Sonne r. ]'c;i. Nouv. Gum. p. 109, pi. 103 (1776). 

 White Nutmeg Pigeon, Lath. Shn. ii. 2, p. 538, n. 31 (1783). 

 Columba bicolor, Scop. Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr, ii. p. 94, n. 97 



( I7x'i) [ex Sonnerat). 

 Columba alba, (fm. S. N. ii. p. 780, n. 53 (1788) {ex Sonnerat) : 



Lath. Ind. Om. ii. p. 602, n. 34 (1790): Bonn. Enc. Mith. i. 



p. 240 (1790); VieOL X. J), xrvi p. 362 (1818); Wayl. Syst. 



Ac. (Jolumba, sp. 20 (1827) ; id. Isis, 1829, p. 741 ; Less. Compl. de 



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