JOQ COTTJMUIDiEr 



/'. Jad.sk. Thatone Creek, Dec. (W. Hume Coll. 



Davison). 

 g . 5 ad. sk. Amherst, March ( TV. Hume Coll. 



Davison). 

 h',i',k'. Jad.sk. Salarjg, Feh., March (J. Hume Coll. 



Darling) . 

 I'. Jjuv.sk. Usheetherrpone, Nov. ( TV. Hume Coll. 



Davison). 



Carpophaga palumboides, Hume, Sti 

 mans), ii. pp. 53, 263, 408 (1874), 



40. Cqlumba palumboides. 



Str'. Feath. i. p. 302 (1873) (Anda- 

 s), ii. pp. 53, 263, 41)8 (1874), iii. p. 327 (1875), viii. p. 109 



(1878) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 793 (1877) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. 



p. 42 (1889). 

 Iantboenas palumboides, Wold. Ibis, 1873, p. 315, pi. xiii. ; Ticeedd. 



Orn. Works, p. 247 (1881). 

 Fruit Pigeon from Nicobars, Hume, Sir. Feath. ii. p. 266 (1874), 



iii. p. 327 (1873). 

 Iantboenas nicobarica, Wald. Ann. $ Mag. N. H. (4) xiv. p. 157 



(1874) ; Hume, Str. Feath. ii. p. 468 (1874), iii. p. 327 (1875). 



Adult male. Head and neck all round a pale French grey, lighter 

 on the head and throat ; lower hind neck with some greenish 

 reflections ; feathers of the mantle shining metallic green at the tip ; 

 rest of the upper parts dusky slate-colour, each feather with a more 

 or less narrow terminal or subterminal band, exhibiting in certain 

 lights pale green or purplish-lilac metallic reflections ; crop-region 

 and abdomen bluish slate-grey, becoming darker or slate-grey on 

 the under wing- and tail-coverts ; quills and tail-feathers blackish 

 slate-colour : " back and sides of tarsi and toes very pale fleshy 

 pink ; front of tarsi bright red ; soles whitish ; claws white ; tipper 

 mandible and lower mandible to point of gonys pale whitish yellow ; 

 rest of lower mandible and cere lake-red ; irides orange towards 

 pupil, changing towards exterior margin to light red ; naked orbital 

 region pinkish lake" (Hume). Total length about 15 inches, wing 

 9-5, tail 6-5, bill 0-9, tarsus 1-1. 



Female. Similar to the male. 



Young. Duller and not so light on the head and neck. 



Nicobar birds cannot be distinguished from the Andaman ones. 



Ha1>. Andamans and Nicobars. 



a-e. 3 $ ad. et Port Blair, March ( TV. Davison). Hume Coll. 

 imm. sk. 



f. $ ad. sk. S. Andamans, Jan. (B. G. W. Tweeddale Coll. 



n.). 



g. 2 ad- sk. Port Mouat, Jan. (W. Davison). Hume Coll. 



(Type of species.) 

 h. $ ad. sk. Perseverance Pt., Aug. Hume Coll. 



i, k. S 2 ad- sk- Nicobars, March, April (A. de Hume Coll. 



Roepstorff). 

 I. c? ad. sk. Nancowry, Nicobars, Feb. ( W. Hume Coll. 



Davison). 

 m. <$ ad. sk. Nancowry, Nicobars, Dec. (A. Hume Coll. 



de Boepstorff). 



