6. MACKOPYGIA. 351 



*', k. tf ad. sk. et Port Molle, Queensland, Voyage of II. M.S. 



2 iniin. st. Dec. 'Rattlesnake.' 



/. 2 ad. sk. Port Molle, May. Voyage of H.M.S. 



' Alert.' 

 »». Ad. sk. N. S. Wales. Gould Coll. 



I'd. Macropygia amboinensis. 



Turtur amboinensis, Briss. Orn. i. p. 127, t. ix. f. 3 (Amboina) 

 (1760). 



Columba amboinensis, Linn. S. N. i. p. 286, n. 38 (ex Brisson) (1766) ; 

 Gm. S. N. ii. p. 790, n. 38 (1788) ; Lath. Lnd. Orn. ii. p. 614, 

 n. 74 (1790) ; Bonn. Enc. Meth. i. p. 256 (1790) ; Vieill. N. D. 

 xxvi. p. 375 (1818) ; Less. Compl. de Buff., Ois. viii. p. 67 (1837) 

 (part., Moluccas) ; id. op. cit. 2nd ed. p. 287 (1838). 



Tourterelle d'Amboine, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. ii. p. 557 (1771). 



Amboina Turtle, Lath. Syn. ii. 2, p. 665, n. 64 (1783). 



Columba phasianella, juv., Wagl. Syst. An. Columba, sp. 36 (1827); 

 Mull. Verhandl. Land- en Volkenk. p. 109 (1839-44). 



Macropygia amboinensis, G, R. Or. List Gen. B. p. 58 (excl. syn.) 

 (1840) ; id, Gen. B. ii. p. 471, n. 1 (1844) ; ? Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. 

 A. S. B. p. 234, n. 1423 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 56, n. 3 

 (part.) (1854); id. Compt. Rend, xxxix. p. 1111 (1854), xl. p. 219, 

 n. 160 (1855); id. Coup oV ceil Ordre Pic/, pp. 27, 57, n. 160 (1855); 

 G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 361 ; Rchb. Tauben, i. p. 86, n. 192, 

 t. 251. f. 1365 (1862) : Wall. P. Z. 8. 1863, p. 34 (Bouru) ; Rosenb. 

 N. T. N. I. xxv. p. 250, n. 236 (1863) ; id. J. f. O. 1864, p. 133, 

 n. 236; Finsch, Neu- Guin. p. 178 (1865); Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. 389, 

 n. 84; id. J. f. O. 1866, p. 282 ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 237, 

 n. 9292 (excl. var.) (1870) ; Wald. Ibis, 1873, p. 315 ; Gieb. Thes. 

 Orn. ii. p. 517 (part.) (1875); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. viii. 

 p. 383, n. 40 (Bouru), ix. p. 204, n. 63 (1876), xii. p. 431 (1878) ; 

 id. P.Z.S. 1878, p. 82; id. Voy. Challeng., Birds, p. 63 (1881); 

 Tweedd. Orn. Works, p. 247 (1881) : Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. 

 p. 132 (1882) ; Bias. 8>- Nehrk. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1882, p. 429 

 (Amboina); Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 39 (part.) (1889); Wardl. 

 Rams. Lbis, 1890, p. 231 ; ?Heine $ Rchnic. Komencl. Mus. Hein. 

 Orn. p. 278 (1890) (Gilolo !, Celebes !) ; Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. 

 Tor. (2) xlii. p. 60 (Agg. Orn. Pap. e Mol. p. 180) (1891). 



Macropygia albiceps, Temm. Mus. Lugd. fide Bp. Consp. A v. ii. 

 p. 56' (1854); id. Compt. Rend, xxxix. p". 1111 (1854); id. Coup 

 d'ail Ordre Pig. p. 27 (1855) ; ?G. R. Gr. List B. Trop. hi. p. 43 

 (New Caledonia '., fide Bonaparte) (1859); id. Hand-list, ii. p. 237, 

 n. 9304 (1870). 



Macropygia turtur, part., Sehleg. Mus. P.-B. Columba?, pp. 110, 113 

 (specim. from Amboyna, Ceram, Coram, and Bouru) (1873). 



Macropygia buruensis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xii. pp. 428, 

 431 (1878) ; id. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 135 (1882). 



A'lult male. Head cinnamon-rufous, with a vinous tinge on the 

 crown and occiput, paler on the forehead and cheeks ; throat huffy 

 white ; upper surface brown-cinnamon, minutely mottled with 

 brown ; the feathers of the nape and mantle tipped with shining 

 metallic greyish green, with amethyst reflections ; beneath tawny 

 buff, paler on breast, where many of the feathers are tipped with 

 whitish, and deepening into rufous on the abdomen and under 



