6. MACRorvfiiA. 355 



Female. Similar to that of M. albieapUla,bn.t larger, much darker 

 chestnut above, and barred all over beneath. 

 llali. Sanghir Islands. 



a-d. tf $ ad. sk. Sanghir Is. (A. B. Meyer). Tweeddale Coll. 



17. Macropygia maforensis. 



Macropvgia turtur, part., Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Columbffi, p. 110 (specim. 



from Mafor, p. 115) (1873). 

 Macropygia doreya, Rosenb. (nee Bp.) Heist, naar Geclvinkb. p. 36 



(Mafor) (1875). 

 Macropvgia grisemucha, part., Salvad. Ann. 3Ius. Civ. Gen. ix. 



p. 2U4, n. tiii (specim. from Mafor) (1876). 

 Macropvgia maforensis, Salvad. Ann. Mas. Civ. Gen. xii. pp. 429, 



432 (1878) ; id. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 148 (1882) ; Ward/. Rams. 



Ibis, 1890, p. 236; Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xlii. p. 02 



(Ayg. Orn. Pap. e Mol. p. 188) (1891). 



Adult male. Forehead whitish, crown, occiput, and nape con- 

 spicuously grey ; nape and upper mantle with green reflections ; 

 sides of the head rufous grey ; throat whitish ; upper breast rufous 

 vinaceous, on the sides with amethystine reflections ; lower 

 breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts fulvous ochreous, the latter 

 darker and uniform ; breast with dark brown bars, evanescent on 

 the abdomen ; back brown-chestnut, the edges of the feathers 

 brighter ; quills brown ; tail above brown-chestnut, with a slight 

 greyish tinge, the three central pairs uniform, three outer pairs at 

 the base, especially of the inner web, bright rufous, and with the 

 usual dark subapical bar : " bill brown, feet red " (Meyer). Total 

 length about 14-5 inches, wing 6-5, tail 7, bill - ~5, tarsus 0*85. 



Female. Differs from the male in having the upper part of the 

 head rufous cinnamon, nape and upper mantle with brown and 

 fulvous ochraceous bars, the feathers of the rump and upper wing- 

 coverts edged with cinnamon ; throat whitish ; the upper breast 

 with tho edges of the feathers ochreous rufous, and the abdomen 

 ochreous fulvous, minutely mottled with grey. 



Hub. Mafoor, Geelvink Bay. 



18. Macropygia doreya. 



Turtur amboinensis, part., Less. Compl. dc /luff., Ois. viii. p. < ; 7 

 (1837); id. op. cit. 2nd ed. p. 287 (specim. rrom Now Guinea) 

 (1838). 



Macropygia doreya, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 57 (Xew Guinea) (1854) 

 (tvpe examined) : id. Compt. Bend, xxxix. p. 1111 (1854), xl. 

 p." 219, n. L62 (1855); id. Coup, d'eeii Ordre Pi;/, pp. 28, 52, 

 n. 162 (1855); Sclat. Jowrn. l'r. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 168, n. L48 

 (1858); G. B. Gr. P. Z. S. 1858, p. L96, 1859, p. L59; id. Cat. 

 //. New Gum. pp. 48, 61 (1859) : id. P.Z.8. L861, p. 137; Bchnb. 

 Tauben, i. p. 87 (1862), ii. p. L76 (1862); Rosenb. X. T. X. I. 

 xxv.].. 250, n.237 (1863); id. J.f. 0.1864, p. L33, q. 237; Fir, 

 Neu-Guin. p. L78 (1865); Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. 390; id. J.f. <>. 

 1866, p. 282; G. R Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 237, n. 9296 (1870) : 

 Gieb. T/tes. Orn. ii. p. 517 (1875) : Salvad. Ann. Max. Civ. < 



2 x 2 



