17. MYRISTICIVORA. 233 



4. Myristicivora melanura. 



? Columba alba, Less, (nee Gm. ?) Tr. <TOrn. p. 469 (Amboyna) 



(1831) ; id. Compl. da Buff., Ois. viii. p. 90 (part.) (1837) ; id. op. 



eit. 2nd ed. p. 293 (part.) (1833). 

 Carpophaga (Myristicivora) melanura, G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1860, 



p. 361 (Batchian and Gilolo). 

 ? Carpophaga luctuosa (?), Wall, {nee Temm.) Ibis, 1861, p. 285 



(Ceram). 

 Carpophaga melanura, Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 33 (Bouru) ; Finsch, 



Neu-Guin. p. 178 (1865); Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. 186, n. 66; id. 



J.f. 0. 1866, p. 281; Schleg. N. T. D. iii. pp. 205, 343 (1866) ; 



Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 790 Q875), viii. p. 381 (1876) ; 



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

 Carpophaga bicolor, part., Schleg. N. T. D. iii. pp. 204, 205, 343 



(1866) ; Rosenb. Reis naar Zuidoostereil. p. 125 (1867) ; Gieb. 



Thes. Orn. i. p. 584 (part.) (1872) ; Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Columba?, 



pp. 93, 102, nn. 57, 58, 59, 61, 62 (1873) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1875, 



p. 108 (part.) ; Rosenb. (nee Scop) Reist. naar Geelvinkb. p. 8 



(1875) ; id. Malag. Archip. p. 323 (Ceram), p. 372 (part.) (1879). 

 Carpophaga luctuosa, part., Rosenb. Reis naar Zuidoostereil. p. 81 



(1867). 

 Myristicivora melanura, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 229, n. 9190 



(1870); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 790 (1875), viii. p. 381 



(1876), ix. p. 203, n. 56 (1876), p. 268 with fig., pp. 269, 276 



(1877), xiv. pp. 661 (1879) ; id. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 116 (1882) ; 



Bias. $ Nehrk. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1882, p. 429 (Amboyna) ; 



Bias. P. Z. S. 1882, p. 710 (part., Ceram) ; Hein. §. Rchnw. 



Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 282 (1890) ; Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. 



Sc. Tor. (2) xliii. p. 59 (Agg. Orn. Pap. e Mol. p. 185) (1891). 

 Myristicivora bicolor, Guillem. [nee Scop.) P. Z. S. 1885, p. 525 



(Halmahera) ; Salvad. Ibis, 1886, p. 153. 



Similar to M. bicolor, but has the basal under tail-coverts only, 

 and the feathers of the vent and some of those covering the 

 thighs, with large black spots ; the black tail-band broader, and the 

 outer web of the outer tail-feathers entirely black or nearly so. 



Uab. Halmahera and Amboyna groups of the Moluccas. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Batchian. "Wallace Coll. 



(Type of species.) 



b. Ad. sk. Batchian. Tweeddale Coll. 



c. cS ad. sk. Obi Lattou (Leyden Mus.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. e,f. 2 ad. et Bouru. Wallace Coll. 

 ad. sk. 



</. Ad. sk. Bourn (Wallace). Seebohm Coll. 



A> *• d $ ad. sk. Bouru, Dec. (H. O. Forbes). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



k. Ad. sk. Ceram. Wallace Coll. 



/. c? ad. sk. Amboyna. Wallace Coll. 



n. Ad. sk. Goram ( Wallace). Gould Coll. 



5. Myristicivora luctuosa. 



Columba luctuosa, Reinw. MS. ; Temm. PI. Col. 247 (livr. 42, 1825) ; 

 Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv.l. p. 287( 1826 ): Desm. Dirt.Sc. Nat. xl. p. 320 

 (1826) ; Wagl.Syst.Av. Columba, sp.2].(l827); Less. Tr.d' Orn. p. 469 



