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This is the only species outside the M. tusalia group in 

 which the middle pairs of rectrices are conspicuously barred 

 above. 



Group C. — Adult males chestnut-brown above, vinaceous 

 or barred, or both, beneath. Sexes dissimilar. 



Section a. — Breast faintly vinaceous, with transverse bars. 

 Confined to the Australian Region. 



14. Macropygia amboinensis. 



Columba amboinensis, Linn. S. N. i. p. 286 (1766) 

 ( Aniboina) . 



Macropygia amboinensis, Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 34; id. 

 Ibis, 1865, p. 389 (Bouru) ; Salvad. Orn. Pap. iii. p. 132. 



Macropygia albiceps, Teinm. Mus. Lugd. (Bp. Consp. ii. 

 p. 56) ; Gray, List Bds. Trop. Is. p. 43 (error?). 



Macropygia turtur (pt.), Schleg. Mus. P.-B. iv. Columbse, 

 p. 110. 



Macropygia buruensis, Salv. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xii. 

 p. 428 ; id. Orn. Pap. iii. p. 135. 



Adult male. Head bright cinnamon-rufous, with a vinous 

 tinge, paler on the forehead, buffy white on the throat ; 

 whole upper surface bright chestnut-brown, the feathers of 

 the nape and mantle tipped with shining metallic greyish 

 green or amethyst ; faint, nearly obsolete, bars on the tail : 

 beneath tawny buff, paler on breast, where many of the 

 feathers are tipped with white, and deepening into rufous on 

 the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries bright chestnut; tail beneath brown, the three 

 outer pairs of rectrices with the basal half and tip more or 

 less rufous ; the breast distinctly and the abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts faintly barred with dark brown. 



In one specimen from Amboina, marked male, the under 

 surface is of a nearly uniform cinnamon-rufous brown, barred, 

 but without white tips to the pectoral feathers. 



Adult female. Head and upper tail-coverts bright reddish 

 chestnut, tail browner ; back and wings brown, feathers 

 broadly tipped with chestnut, especially on the wing-coverts 



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