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differs from it in having the dark patch on the occiput 

 and the uniform vinaceous breast, while the latter is gray 

 with a rosy hue in C. consobrina and wnea. The red breast 

 strongly remembers C. oenotlwrax from Engano , the south- 

 ernmost of the West-Sumatran islands. The green under 

 tail-coverts of this latter, however, make it a very distinct 

 species. Another nearly allied species is C. insularis from 

 the Nicobars. It agrees with both Nias-species and that 

 from Engano in the pure gray color of head and neck, 

 and especially with C. consobrina in the gray instead of 

 red color of the breast, but it is at once distinguished 

 from all the three mentioned species by the longer under 

 tail-coverts , which are. rusty brown on the basal and glossy 

 green on the terminal half. 



It is not without hesitation that I describe this bird as 

 new, the idea being rather perplexing that two so closely 

 allied species should inhabit so small an island as Nias. A 

 comparison of our specimen, however, with 41 specimens of 

 C. cenea (Philippines 12, Borneo 7, Bauka 5, Sumatra 5, 

 Java 5, Sumbawa 3, Flores 2, Sumba 2), three of C. con- 

 sobrina ^ one of C. cenothorax ^ one of C. insularis and 

 five of C. sylvatica ') convinced me that it cannot be united 

 with one of the mentioned species. 



75. Macropygia Emiliana Bp. 



1 Columha amhoinerisis Nieuwenh. & Rosenb. Versl. Eil. Nias, p. 20. 

 Macropygia Emiliana (ex Java), Bp. Consp. II, p. 58 (1854). 

 Macropygia tenuirosiris Schleg. (part.), Mus. P.-B., Coliimbae , p. 109 



(1873). 

 Macropygia Modiglianii Salvad. Ucc. di Nias, p. 559, pl.VIII, fig. 2; 



Wardl. Ramsaj, Ibis 1890, p. 223; Modigl. Viagg. a Nias, p. 440, 



pi. XIV 2); Oust. 1. c. pp. 118, 121; Salvad. Cat. Birds Br. Mus. 



XXI, p. 349 (1893). 



1) I should prefer to keep C. sylvatica from South India and Ceylon 

 distinct from C. anea, on account of its inferior size. 



2) This plate, a not very successfully executed copy from plate VIII in 

 Salvadori's Ucc. di Nias, has the mantle too much tinged with cohalt, a 



Notes from the Leyden ]VIu.seiim , "Vol. XVIII. 



