IS. CHALCOrilATS. 521 



p. 535 (1884) (Ternate) ; Nehrh. J. f. O. 1885, p. 34 (Waigiou) ; 



Meyer, Zeitschr. f. yes. Orn. 1886, p. 37 (Kafu) : Bias. Zeitschr. 



f. gee. Orn. 1886, pp. 137, 208 ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 41 (1889) ; 



Rein. Sf Rchnw. Nomencl. Mue. Hein. Orn. p. 286 (1890) ; Salvad. 



Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xlii. p. 64 (Agg. Orn. Pap. e Mol. p. 190 



(1891). 

 Peristera albifrons, Temm. Mus. Lugd. fide Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 92 



(1854) ; id. Compt. Rend. xl. p. 2i0 (1855) ; id. Coup oVozil Ordre 



Pig. p. 48 (1855). 

 Chalcophaps albifrons, Bp. 1849, fide Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 92 (1854). 

 ? Carpophaga (!) etiennei, " Bp." Finsch, Xeu-Guin. p. 178 (1865) 



(Celebes) ; Bias. J.f. O. 1883, p. 116. 

 Peristera stephani, Finscli, Neu-Guin. p. 179 (1865). 

 Chalcopbaps hombroni, Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. 394, n. 113 ($); id. 



J. f. 0. 1866, p. 284 ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 245, n. 9423 (1870). 

 Chalcophaps wallacei, Briigg. Abk. naturw. Ver. Brem. v. p. 464 



(1876) (Celebes); Bias. J.f. O. 1883, pp. 139, 162. 

 Phaps stephani, Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 630 (1872), iii. p. 91 (1877). 

 Pbaps hombroni, Gieb. op. cit. i. p. 630, iii. p. 89. 



Adult male. Forehead white, abruptly defined ; crown, occiput, 

 nape, mantle, scapulars, shoulders, and breast vinous cinnamon, 

 with a purple lustre, nearly wanting on the scapulars and breast ; 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts brown-chestnut : on the 

 lower back two bands of a light cinnamon colour, and between them 

 a dark brown band with some bronze reflections ; abdomen cinna- 

 mon, under tail-coverts brown-chestnut ; median and greater wing- 

 coverts and outer webs of tertials metallic green ; quills on the 

 outer webs and at the tips brown, the inner web, except at the tip, 

 cinnamon, like the under wing-coverts ; tail rufous brown, the four 

 central feathers uniform, the lateral ones brighter rufous with a 

 subterminal black band, and the tip rufous : the outer feathers grey 

 towards the base : " iris brown ; bill coral-red, carmine over the 

 nostrils ; feet dull carmine " (D y Albertis). Total length about 

 9 inches, wing 5-6, tail 3-5, bill 0-62, tarsus 0*9. 



Female. Differs from the male in having the forehead dark grey ; 

 the rufous-cinnamon colour of the upper parts and breast is duller, 

 with scarcely any purple lustre. 



Young. Brown, varied with cinnamon colour; forehead ashy 

 rufous or whitish rufous ; feathers of the upper and underparts 

 brown, tipped with rufous-cinnamon ; upper tail-coverts and greater 

 wing-coverts almost entirely cinnamon. 



/full. Celebes, and Papuan Islands as far as the Duke of York 

 Islands, but not in the Moluccas ! 



Celebes. Gould Coll. 



Menado, X. Celebes. Wallace Coll. 



Menado, N. Celebes. Tweeddale Coll. 



Waigiou ( Wallace). Gould Coll. 



Mysol ( Wallace). Gould Coll. _ 



(One of the types of C. hombroni, Wall.) 



Mysol ( Wallace). Tweeddale Coll. 



New Guinea ( Wallace). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



New Guinea. Wallace Coll. 



