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'•)4. Ptilinopus hyogastra (Reinw.) 

 Batjau : Wallace, Bernstein, Platen, Doherty, Watcrstnidt. 



Ho. Megaloprepia formosa CTra.v. 



Carpnphajm {ihgnhprepin) formosa G. R. Gray, /'. Z. R 1860. p. 360 (E. Gilolo). 



Batjan : Bernstein, Doherty, AVaterstradt. 



Evidently a bird of the monntains. Wallace and Platen did not come across it 

 on Batjan; Doherty got a single specimen, but Waterstradt sent a fine series from 

 the monntains between 5000 and 7000 ft. 



00 Carpophaga perspicillata (Temm.). 

 Batjan : Wallace, Berni^tein, Platen, Kilkenthal, Doherty. 



07. Carpophaga basilica (Bp."). 



Dneiila basiUra Bonaparte, Consp. Ar. ii. p. Wo (1854, ex Temminck & Sundevall, MS., hab. 

 Gilolo). 

 Batjan : Wallace, Bernstein, (Tnillemard, Platen, Kiikenthal, Doherty, 

 Waterstradt. 



98. Myristicivora bicolor (fScop.j. 



S ad., Batjan, Angust 1807, W. Doherty coll. 



This specimen, with outer primaries in monlt, is a typical M. bicolor. In Nov. 

 ZooL. 1001. p. 110, Mr. Rothschild and I recorded also a young S, collected by 

 Dr. Platen in Batjan, but erroneously, the specimen of Platen being a young 

 M. mclanuru. 



99. Myristicivora melanura Gray. 



Ctnpophof/a (M't/yli'tirivora) mehmiim G. E. Gray, P. Z. S. 1800. p. 3111 (''Batchian and Gilolo," 

 type in Brit. Mas. ex Batjan). 



Batjan : Wallace, Bernstein, Platen, Waterstradt. 



The S jnv., collected on Batjan 30. iii. 1893 by Dr. V. Platen, is a young 

 M. mel'uiura, as quite correctly recorded by Nehrkorn, ././'. 0. 1894. p. 100. In the 

 young melanura the onter rectrices are differently coloured than in the adult ; the 

 black is less intense, the white is less sharply separated and reaches farther towards 

 the tip, the black patches on the vent are less developed. These peculiarities 

 probably caused our erroneously recording Platen's bird as M. bicolor. 



100. Columba albertisii exsul snbsp. nov. 



Mr. Waterstradt sent three specimens, one marked " cJ," the other two marked 

 " ?,"* of a Pigeon most closely allied to Columba albertisii, f but evidently with 

 a slate-coloured instead of dark chestnut upper throat, darker slate-coloured crown 

 and hindncck, longer wing, and perhaps darker breast. Unfortunately all three 

 exam])les from Batjan are iHwhaptiJemalcs or immature and more or less in moult, 



• It is, however, probable that all three 3.K females, and I believe that M\a\i females ot C. alhrrtisii 

 resemble the young. 



t f/i/miwjjliaps alberiisii Sa\va,A., Ami. Mvs. fir. ffcB. vi. p. 8G (1874 : New tininca) ; Oi/imiojihaps 

 alhcrlmi auct. ; Columba all/rrthii Rothsch. & Hart., Nov. Zooi,. 1901. p. 117. 



