342 COLCMBID.E. 



Hah. The hills of Java and Sumatra, up to 7500 feet, and the 

 Malay Peninsula. 



The only specimen from Perak enumerated below is a male, and 

 differs in the irregularity of the tail-bars, which are bent, instead 

 of running straight across the tail ; but similar individual variations 

 occur also in allied species. 



a. $ ad. sk. Hills of Larut, Perak. L. Wray, Esq. [P.]. 



b. $ ad.sk. Sumatra (Carl Bock). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 c-h. $ $ ad. et juv.sk. Sumatra (Carl Bock). Tweeddale Coll. 



i, k. (} j ad. sk. W. Java. Wallace Coll. 



1. <3 ad. sk. W. Java ( Wallace). Tweeddale Coll. 



4. Macropygia magna. 



Macropygia magna, Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 497 (Timor) ; id. Ibis, 

 1865, p. 389 ; id. J. f. O. 1866, p. 282 ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. 

 p. 237, n. 9299 (1870); Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Columba?, p. 108 

 (1873) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. ii. p. 518 (1875) ; Wardl. Rams. Ibis, 

 1890, p. 239. 



Male, apparently adult. Head cinnamon-rufous ; nape and mantle 

 minutely freckled and barred with dark brown and buff; remainder 

 of the upper surface brown, more or less clearly barred and tipped 

 with rufous, especially on the wing-coverts ; beneath buff, conspi- 

 cuously barred with dark brown, the breast-feathers tipped with 

 paler ; chin, throat, and lower tail-coverts more rufous and un- 

 barred ; under wing-coverts, axillaries, and inner part of the inner 

 webs of the quills bright cinnamon-rufous ; tail pale brown, two 

 outer rectrices rufous, brighter at the base of the inner webs, and 

 with a dark band on the inner web extending towards the base : 

 " iris pale golden orange " (Forbes) : " bill blackish ; feet pale pink- 

 red" (Wallace). Total length about 16 inches, wing 7*7, tail 8*6 

 to 9, bill 0-8, tarsus 0-9. 



Female. Similar to the male, but the feathers of the crown and 

 occiput show some blackish bars. 



Young. More rufous above, the head mottled with black ; upper 

 tail-coverts barred : underparts rufous, the breast-feathers blackish 

 with rufous edges ; tail more rufous than in the adult bird. 



Hab. Timor. 



a, b, c. 3 et juv. sk. E. Timor. Wallace Coll. (Types 



of species.) 

 d, e. $ ad. et juv. sk. E. Timor (Wallace). Gould Coll. 



f. 3 iuv. sk. Fatunabo, near Delhi, H. O. Forbes, Esq. 



Timor, 1700 feet, Jan. [C.]. 



5. Macropygia timorlaoensis. 



Macropygia, sp. inc., Sclat. P. Z. S. 1883, pp. 51, 195, 200. 

 Macropygia keiensis, Meyer (nee Salvad.), Sitzb. u. Abh. Ges. Isis, 



1884 p. 52 ; Forbes, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 433 ; id. Natural. Wander. 



p. 366 (1885). 



