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pure white ; remainder of lower surface of body white, faintly 

 washed with ashy grey, the flanks being dark ashy grey ; a 

 distinct white ring round the eye, formed by the minute 

 feathers of the eyelids ; above ashy olive, each feather, except 

 those of the uropygium, boldly centred with brown ; upper 

 surface of the rectrices ashy olive like the back, the middle 

 pair with a narrow dark brown central line on each side of 

 the shaft ; no striations or terminal marks on the rectrices ; 

 upper surface of the wing, when closed, ashy olive like the 

 back, the secondary coverts being centred with brown ; inner 

 edges of the basal portion of the quiil-webs underneath white, 

 passing into tawny on the tertiaries. The tail consists of very 

 broad feathers much graduated ; legs (in dried skin) brown. 



Wing 2 inches, tail 3'25, bill from nostril 0*28, tarsus - 75. 



Described from an example of a male obtained by Surgeon- 

 Major Day at Dobri, Lower Bengal, on the 27th of November, 

 1873. 



Ianthoenas nicobarica, n. sp. 



Entire head, nape, cheeks, and neck dark French grey, chin 

 and throat albescent grey ; breast and abdomen darker grey 

 than the head ; feathers of the back and sides of the neck 

 tipped with iridescent colours of changing green and pinkish 

 violet ; lower down a broad zone of dark grey feathers with 

 bright green reflections, followed by an interscapular zone of 

 iron-grey feathers with pinkish-violet reflections ; lesser wing- 

 coverts iron-grey, with semilunar terminal pinkish-violet 

 edgings. All the iridescent tints described alter from green 

 to violet or violet to green, according to the light in which 

 the individual is held. Back, uropygium, and upper tail- 

 coverts dark ashy grey, many shades darker than the head, 

 and tinted with iridescent hues ; quills and rectrices almost 

 black ; base of the bill and eyelids bright red. 



Wing 9*75 inches, tail 6'50, bill from forehead 1*37, 

 tarsus 1, middle toe with claw 1'87. 



Described from examples obtained in Trinkut and Nang- 

 cowry islands, Nicobars, by Captain Wimberley. 



Like Ianthoenas palumbaides (Hume), this species possesses 

 twelve rectrices, and is a true Ianthoenas. It is a representa- 

 tive form of the Andaman species, from which it is chiefly 

 distinguished by wanting the pearly-white or greyish-white 

 head, throat, and nape. 



Carpophaga pulcliella, n. sp. 

 Head, neck, throat, breast, lower surface, and under wing- 



