358 COLTJJIBID.E. 



id. J.f. 0. 1864, p. 133, n. 236 ; Wall. Ibis, 186-5, p. 399 (part.) ; 

 Finsch, Neu-Guin. p. 178 (part.) (1865) ; Rosenb. {nee Linn.) 

 Heist, nam' Geelvinkb. p. 8 (1875) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. ii. p. 517 

 (part.) (1875) ; Tristr. Cat. Cull. B. p. 39 (part.) (1889) ; Hein. $ 

 Rchnw. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 278 (Gilolo) (1890). 



Macropygia albicapilla, var., G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 361 (Batchian 

 and Ternate). 



Macropygia amboinensis, yar. batchianensis, Wall. Ibis, 1865, 

 p. 389; id. J.f. 0. 1866, p. 282; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 237, 

 n. 9292 (1870). 



Macropygia turtur, part., Schley. Mus. P.-B. Columba?, p. 110 

 (p. 113, specim. frnrn Halmahera, Morty, Ternate, Batchian, and 

 Kajoa) (1873) ; Rosenb. Malay. Archip. p. 407 (1878-79). 



Macropygia batchianensis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. p. 204, 

 n. 67 (1876), xii. p. 431 (1878) ; id. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 136 

 (1882) ; Pleske, Bull. Acad. Petersb. xxix. p. 535 (1884) ; Guillem. 

 P. Z. S. 1885, p. 576 ; Wardl. Rams. Ibis, 1890, p. 237 ; ? Hein. £ 

 Rchnw. Noynencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 278 (Mysol ?) (1890) ; 

 Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xlii. p. 60 (Aqg. Orn. Pap. e 

 Mol. p. 186) (1891). 



Adult male. Head and throat rufous, occiput yinaceous, nape 

 with green and amethyst reflections ; rest of the upper parts 

 brown-cinnamon, scarcely mottled with brown ; lower throat 

 and upper breast vinous, in some specimens with narrow, almost 

 obsolete, dark bars ; lower breast and abdomen pale rufous, under 

 tail-coverts rufous cinnamon ; wings dark chestnut, with paler or 

 brighter edges on the upper wing-coverts ; under wing-coverts 

 cinnamon ; quills uniform underneath, or with a very narrow rufous 

 inner edge ; tail as in the allied species : " bill brown ; feet red ; irides 

 red, with a blue inner ring" (Beccari). Total length about 14*5 

 inches, wing 6*4 to 6'8, tail 8-5, bill 0'65, tarsus 0-9. 



Female. Is of the general rufous-brown type of the females of 

 this group. 



Young birds the same, more or less mottled according to the age. 



Hah. Batchian and the Halmahera group — Halmahera, Ternate, 

 Morty, Kajoa. 



a. cS ad. sk. Batchian. Wallace Coll. 



(Type of species.) 

 />, c. cj ad. sk. Batchian. Wallace Coll. 



d. 5 ad. sk. Batchian ( Wallace). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



e. <3 ad. sk. Ternate. Wallace Coll. 

 /. c? ad. sk. [Menado.] Tweeddale Coll. 



22. Macropygia goldiei. 



Macropygia doreva, part., Sharpe (nee Bp.), Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. 

 xvi. p. 446 (Taburi District) (1882). 



Adult male. Similar to the male of M. doreya, from which it 

 differs in having the bars on the breast obsolete or entirely wanting, 

 and the cheeks more rufous ; it is intermediate between M. batchia- 

 nensis and M. carteretia, but differs from the former in being more 



