348 



COLUMBIDJE. 



(1844) ; id. List Gallium B. M. p. 11 (1844) ; id. List B. Brit. Mus. 



Colunibas, p. 39 (1856) ; id. Hand-list, ii. p. 237, n. 9298 (1870). 

 Macropygia emiliana, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 58 (Java) (1854) ; id. 



Compt. Rend, xxxix. p. 1111 (1854), xl. p. 219, n. 164 (1855); 



id. Coup d'wil Ordre Pig. pp. 27, 57, n. 164 (1855) ; G. R. Gr. 



List B. Brit. Mus. Columbia, p. 39 (1856) ; Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 88 



(1862); Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. 390 (Java, Lombock); id.J.f. O. 



1866, p. 282; G.R.Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 237, n. 9296 (1«70); 



Wald. Ibis, 1873, p. 315; Hhves, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 679; Sousa, 



Mus. Nac. Lisb. Colurnbae, p. 15 (1873); Gieb. Thes. Orn. ii. 



p. 517 (1875) ; Tweedd. Orn. Works, p. 247 (1881) ; Sclat. List 



Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 451 (1883) ; Everett, Journ. Sir. Br. R. As. 



Soc. 1889, p. 193; Sharpe, Ms, 1890, p. 137 (Kiua Balu) ; Hein. 



fy Rchnw. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 278 (1890) ; Wardl.Rams. 



Ibis, 1890, p. 222 (Lombock, Java, Borneo). 

 Macropygia remiliana, Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 486 (Lombock). 

 ? Macropygia amboinensis, Peh. (nee Linn.) Novara Reise, Vor/.x). 109 



(1865). 

 Macropvgia tenuirostris, part., Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Columbic, p. 109 



(Java) (1873) ; Sharpe {nee G. R. Gr.),Ibis, 1879, p. 265 v Brunei) ; 



Vorderm. N. T. N. I. xlv. p. 400 (1885), xlvi. pp. 89, 236 



(1886), li. p. 401 (1892). 

 ? Macropvgia sondaica, Schleg. MS. ; Sousa, Mus. Nac. Lisb. 



Columbae, p. 15 (1873) (Java). 



Similar in every stage to M. tenuirostris, from which it differs in 

 being much more rufous, and in having the bases of the inner webs 

 of the quills much more broadly cinnamon ; the difference in the 

 much more rufous colour of the tail is very conspicuous : " iris 

 reddish pearly, or red with yellow inner ring ; hill horny or flesh- 

 colour ; feet red or purplish" (Wallace). Total length about 14-5 

 inches, wing 7, tail T^o, bill 0-(i8, tarsus 0*98. 



The female, marked so by Wallace, differs from the male in having 

 the upper surface without amethyst, and more or less barred, 

 especially on the nape and mantle, which are of a brighter cinnamon 

 than in the female of M. tenuirostris : beneath cinnamon, with trans- 

 verse dusky bars on the crop-region and hreast. 



Major Wardlaw Ramsay was somewhat in doubt as to what the 

 plumage of the adult female is like, hut it seemed to him that in 

 the group to which M. emiliana belongs the sexes do not differ. 

 Two fully adult specimens from Kina Balu, collected by Mr. White- 

 head, and marked as male and female, are almost entirely alike. 



A young female has the feathers of the lower throat black with 

 rufous centres. 



Hub. Java, Lombock, and N. Borneo. 



The Kina-Balu bird has the cinnamon colour of the abdomen 

 somewhat lighter than the Javan and Lombock ones, but otherwise 

 it cannot be distinguished. 



