248 



coLUMimuc. 



fi 6 . Neck like the head, breast, 

 and abdomen, white, washed 

 with buff in the adult birds ; 

 young birds (?) or females 

 with the upper part of the 

 head and with the neck 

 greyish brown, with a metallic 



purple lustre leucomela, p. 320. 



b. General plumage almost uniform brown, or brown 



more or less vinaceous. 



c'. General plumage almost uniform brown, with no 



vinous tinge whatever ; feathers on the sides of 



the neck with light spots at the tip (Amaur- 



amas) polleni, p. 321. 



il' . General plumage brown, more or less vinous, 

 and with no light spots on the sides ol the 

 neck, but sometimes with reddish spots, more 

 or less obsolete, on the hind neck ( CEna-nas). 

 c". Back and wings sepia olive-brown, more or less 

 tinged with purple. 

 c'" . Bill rather thick; inner webs of the quills 

 distinctly and constantly tinged with ru- 

 fous cinnamon nigrirostris, 



/"". Bill rather thin, variable in length, 065 to [p. 322. 



038 inch ; inner web of quills often uni- 

 form, sometimes tinged more or less with 

 reddish ; lower part of the hind neck and 

 mantle often with two reddish spots, more 

 or less obsolete, on each side of the feathers; 



size variable, wing from 7 to G inches plumhea, p. 32-J. 



</". Back and wings vinaceous cinnamon ; inner 

 webs of the quills constantly tinged with 



rufous cinnamon subvinacea, 



[p. 326. 



1. Columba grisea. (Plato VII.) 



Columba argentina, Temm. Mus. Lugd. (fide Bp. Consp. ii. p. 36). 

 Carpophaga grisea, G. B. Gr. (nee Columba grisea, Bonn.) List of 



Gallinm B. M. p. 5 (1844) (sine descriptione) ; id. List B. Brit. 



Mus. Columba?, p. 20 (1856); Wall. Ibis, I860, pp. 386, 398; 



Schleg. N. T. D. iii. p 204 (1866); Gieb. Thes. Om. i. p. 585 



(1872) ; Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Columbre, p. 103 (1873) ; Salvad. Cat. 



Ucc. Born. p. 291 (1874) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 108; Bosenb. 



Malay. Are/rip. p. 108 (Sumatra) (1878) ; Vorderm. N. T. N. 1. 



xlvi. p. 236 (1886), xlix. p. 412 (1889) ; Everett, Journ. Str. Br. 



B. As. Soc. 1889, p. 195. 

 Myristicivora grisea, Bp. Consp. A v. ii. p. 36 (1854); id. Compt. 



Bend, xxxix. p. 1078 (1854), xl. p. 217, n. 97 (1856) ; id. Coup 



d'a-il Ordr. Pia. pp. 18, 55, n. 97 (1855) ; id. Compt. Bend, xliii. 



p. 836 (1856) (Sumatra) ; Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 116(1862) ; G. R. Gr. 



Hand-list, ii. p. 229, n. 9191 (1870) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 



ix. pp. 265, 276 (1877) ; Hein. $ Bclimv. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. 



Om. p. 282 (Java !) (1890). 



Adult. General colour light grey : bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 quills, and apical half of the tail black ; bill in the dry skin dark 



