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less crimson tinge ; the lower part of the back, rump, and 

 tail are bronze-green, distinctly greener than in the male, 

 and the upper part of the breast-patch is orange-red without 

 the crimson wash. Total length l-A'7 inches, wing 68, 

 tail 4' 5, tarsus 1*15. 



A young male. The whole of the upper parts is brownish 

 bronze shot with green ; the dull crimson of the top of the 

 head and the free crimson webs of the secondaries are just 

 beginning to make their appearance; the whole of the 

 feathers of the chest and upper breast are grey, widely tipped 

 with bronze-green, the only patches of pure grey feathers 

 being visible on each side of the neck. The orange-red 

 breast-patch is represented by a deep orange feather in the 

 middle of the chest and some dark carmine feathers. Other- 

 wise the rest of the plumage is much like that of the adult. 



97. CoLUMBA GRisEiGULARis (Wald. &Layard) ; Salvadori, 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxi. p. 313 (1893). 



Several examples of the large Grey- throated Wood-Pigeon 

 are before me. A younger female bird (the sexes are perfectly 

 similar in plumage) has the reflections on the upper back and 

 rump mostly green instead of violet, this diff'erence being 

 even more marked in a still younger example, in which the 

 feathers of the crown are almost entirely deep grey narrowly 

 edged with rufous bronze, and many of the chest- and breast- 

 feathers are margined with rufous. 



98. Macropygia tenuirostris. Gray; Grant, Ibis, 1894, 

 p. 521, 1895, p. 265. 



• Both male and female examples of the Slender-billed 

 Cuckoo-Dove are represented in this collection, and we are 

 thus enabled to settle a rather interesting point with regard 

 to the diflerences of plumage in the two sexes. Major 

 Wardlaw Ramsay was of opinion that both sexes were alike, 

 but Count Salvadori, in describing the adult female (Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus. xxi. p. 347, 1893), remarks : — " Contrary to Major 

 Wardlaw Ramsay's opinion, I think that the specimens of 

 this sex differ from the male, and resemble the young birds, 

 from which thev difter in being more uniform on the back 



