MUSCADIVORES. 43 



Species. 



a\ Larger; back and scapulars glossy green or coppery bronze. 



b^. Nape with a coppery chestnut patch nuchalis (p. 43) 



b-. Nape without a coppery chestnut patch. 



c^. Gray of mantle lighter and more sharply defined from the green back. 



#. Upper surface of tail lighter and greener chalybura (p. 43) 



dr. Upper surface of tail darker and bluer palawanensis (p. 44) 



C-. Gray of mantle darker and less sharply defined aenea (p. 44) 



«-. Smaller; back and scapulars glossy brown with but little metallic color. 



¥. Under parts lighter pickeringi (p. 44) 



b-. Under parts darker langhornei (p. 45) 



31. MUSCADIVORES NUCHALIS (Cabanis). 



CHESTNUT-NAPED IMPERIAL PIGEOK. 



Carpophaga nuchalis Cabanis, Jour, fiir Orn. (1882), 126; Salvadori, Cat. 

 Birds Brit.Mus. (1893), 21, 190; Grant, Ibis (1895), 116; Whitehead, 

 Ibis (1899), 487; Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 64. 



Muscadivora nuchalis McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 11. 



Calayan [McGregor); Camiguin N. (McGregor) ; Fuga (Whitehead); Luzon 

 (Whitehead); Mindoro (teste Hart ert) . 



This species has been established on the character of a cupreous chest- 

 nut nape; otherwise it differs but slightly from M. chalybura with which 

 it appears to intergrade. Its status is somewhat doubtful. 



32. MUSCADIVORES CHALYBURA (Bonaparte). 



BONAPARTE'S IMPERIAL PIGEON. 



Carpophaga chalybura Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Avium (1854), 2, 32. 

 Carpophaga cenca Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. :Mus. (1893), 21, 190, 193 



( part ) . 

 Muscadivora cenea McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List ( 1906), 11 (part). 



Baud, Bohol; bd-lud, Ticao, Manila, and in general use. 



Bantayan (McGregor); Basilan (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, 

 McGregor); Bohol (McGregor); Catanduanes (Whitehead); Cebu (Everett, 

 Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Dinagat (Everett) ; Guimaras (Steere Exp., 

 Bourns d Worcester); Leyte (Everett); Lubang (McCrregor) ; Luzon (Meyer, 

 Steere Exp., Whitehead, McGregor) ; Marinduque (Steere Exp.) ; Masbate (Steere 

 Exp., Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Mindanao (Everett, Koch d Schadenberg, 

 Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, GoodfcUow, Celestino) ; Mindoro (Steere Exp., 

 Schmaclccr, Bourns d Worcester, McGregor, Porter) ; Negros (Meyer, Steere 

 Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Keay) ; Panay (Bourns d Worcester) ; Samar (Bourns 

 d Worcester); Semirara (Worcester); Sibuyan (McGregor) ; Siquijor (Bourns 

 d Worcester, Celestino) ; Tablas (Bourns d Worcester) ; Ticao (McGregor) ; Verde 

 (McGregor) . 



Very closely related to 21. cenca but gray of hind neck and upper mantle 

 lighter and more sharply defined from the metallic green of the back; 

 tail with less blue tinge. Iris bright red ; bill gray ; legs and feet dull red. 



A male from Mindoro measures: Length, 420; wing, 240; tail, 156; 

 exposed culmen, 25; tarsus, 28. 



