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Norfolk Island, and H. chatlhamensis, of the Chatham group, have 

 greyer wing-coverts and green nape. LojjholacmKS antarctic us, 

 of Eastern Australia, is grey, with a fine rufous crest, black 

 remiges, black rectrices banded with grey, and bare reddish 

 orbits ; the neck-feathers being hackled as in Oaloenas. In 

 Myristicivora the general plumage is white, Init M. hicolor, of 

 the Malay Archipelago, has l^lack wing-quills and tip to the tail ; 

 the similar 3L spUorrlwa of Australia and Papuasia, the yellower 

 M. subjiavescciis of New Ireland, and the blacker-tailed M. melanura 

 of the Moluccas, have black spots near the vent ; M Ivctvosa, of 

 Celebes and the Sula Islands, has the remiges nearly grey. 



Phaenorrhina f/oliath, of New Caledonia and the Isle of 

 Pines, is slaty -black, with maroon patches on the wing-coverts 

 and abdomen, black (|uills, and a broad chestnut tail-bar. 



The forty to fifty species of Carpo2)haga range from India to 

 Hainan and Fiji. 0. concinna, found in the Moluccas, Tenimber, 

 Ke, and Aru Islands, is metallic bronzy-green with grey head 

 and lower surface ; C. acnca, extending from India and Ceylon 

 to Hainan and Plores, has more vinaceous lower parts and greener 

 tail ; C. latrans, of Fiji, is nearly brown above ; C. zoeac, of 

 Papuasia, has a chestnut mantle and black pectoral band. 

 C. griseipectui>, of the Philippines, has a grey back with blackish- 

 green spots, and a chestnut lower breast ; C basilica, of the 

 Halmahera group; has a pinkish-white head and upper breast, a 

 rufous lower breast, and a Inroad grey tip to the tail ; C. ciiprea, 

 of Southern India, is brown, with white throat, greyish-pink 

 head, neck, mantle, and under parts ; C. jJoeciloo-rhoa, of North 

 Celebes, is glossy greenish-l)lack above with grey head, mantle, 

 and chest, and brown breast with ochre markings ; O. pinon, 

 of New Guinea and the Western l^apuan Islands, is slaty-grey 

 with a white forehead, a ring of white feathers round the 

 naked red orbits, and a purplish-chestnut lower breast. Large 

 flocks commonly gather after breeding. The seven species of 

 C. (Glohiccra), remarkable for a fleshy knob at the base of the bill, 

 may be represented by C. (G.) pacijica, ranging from New Guinea 

 to Samoa, and C. (G.) rvhricrra, of New Ireland, New Britain, New 

 Hanover, and t^he Duke of York Island. The former has a grey 

 head, bronzy-green upper parts, bluer remiges and rectrices and 

 pinkish lower surface, the knob being black. The latter has a 

 vinous head, grey mantle, chestnut abdomen, and red knob. 



