the Genus Macropygia. 219 



3. Macropygia leptogrammica. 



Columba leptogrammica, Temm. PI. Col. 560 (1835) . 



I.Columba unchall, Wagl. Syst. Av., Columba, no. 38 

 (1827). 



Macropygia walik-mehra, Reichenb. Taubenvogel, p. 86, 

 no. 191 (1862). 



Macropygia leptogrammica, Schleg. Mus. P.-B. iv. Co- 

 lumbae, p. 107 (part.). 



Macropygia, sp., Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 443. 



Adult male. Like M. tusalia but smaller. Wing 6*5 to 

 7 inches. The barring of the upper surface is conspicuously 

 broader and more rufous, and the metallic colours less 

 bright. It is interesting to note that the Javan male has 

 the head like the Indian bird, that is, green with purple 

 reflections, while the Sumatran male has the reverse, purple 

 with green reflections. The plumage is much more rufous 

 below, and the tail-coverts cinnamon-rufous rather than buff. 



Adult female. From want of sexual determinations I 

 cannot write with certainty, but in an apparently adult 

 female, so marked by Wallace, from Java, the head and 

 mantle are barred brown and rufous like the rest of the 

 upper surface ; a slight tinge of purple is on the head ; the 

 feathers of the neck, mantle, and breast with transverse 

 bars of golden brown, tipped metallic green with purple 

 reflections : beneath fulvous isabelline barred with dark 

 brown; under wing-coverts, axillaries, and flanks rufous. 



Young. Much like the female, but with the bars on the 

 neck and mantle pale buffy in place of rufous, and the 

 metallic colour confined to the bars on the breast. 



Iris yellow ; eyelids and feet red ; feet red ( Wallace) . 



Hab. The hills of Sumatra and Java up to 7500 feet ; the 

 Malay Peninsula. 



From the latter locality I have only seen one specimen, 

 which was obtained in the hills of Larut in Perak by 

 Mr. Wray . It is a male with a wing of 6'8 inches. It belongs 

 to the M. leptogrammica and not the M. tusalia form, 

 but differs in the irregularity of the tail-bars, which are 

 bent instead of going straight across the tail. 



