232 Major R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay on 



and secondaries; nape and mantle pale buffy, barred with 

 very dark metallic green or purple or freckled with brown 

 without bars : beneath light chestnut-brown, darkest on the 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts, barred as in the male. 



Younger birds are like the female, but less bright, the 

 feathers of the head being dark brown at the base and only 

 tipped with chestnut ; the breast not barred or only faintly 

 in some specimens, but breast and throat-feathers blackish 

 brown tipped with chestnut, giving a mottled appearance. 

 Wing 66 to 7-1 inches, tail 8 to 9, tarsus 0-9, bill 0-9. 



Adult. Iris brown, with inner ring of grey j bill pinkish 

 corneous with tip sooty colour ; legs and feet faded pink. 



Young. Iris lake-red ; bill pink ; legs and feet coral-red 

 (Forbes). 



Hab. Amboina, Ceram, Bourn. 



I cannot separate the Bouru birds from those of Ceram 

 and Amboina ; the number of bars on the breast-feathers, 

 which Count Salvadori gives as the difference in his Key to 

 the genus, is not constant in a series from either localities. 



This may be conveniently taken as the central species of 

 which the following nine may be regarded as outlying races. 

 Together they form a well-marked group of the genus 

 Macropygia. 



15. Macropygia albicapilla. 



Macropygia albicapilla, Temm. Mus. Lugd. (Bp. Consp. 

 ii. p. 57 (Celebes)) • Walden, Trans. Z. S. viii. p. 85 (p. 185); 

 Meyer, Ibis, 1879, p. 137; Bias. Zeitschr. ges. On. iii. 

 p. 133 (1886). 



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

 pp. Ill, 112. 



Adult male. Allied to M. amboinensis, but smaller, and 

 the upper surface more claret-brown, the head grey or 

 greyish buff in some, and whitish on the forehead ; the breast 

 with a metallic vinous tinge, in bold contrast to the rufous 

 throat. 



Adult female. A bird marked female, apparently adult, is 

 like the female of M. amboinensis, but darker; beneath 



