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Norfolk Island, and H. chathamensis, of the Chatham group, have 

 greyer wing-coverts and green nape. Lopliolaemus cmtarcticus, 

 of Eastern Australia, is grey, with a fine rufous crest, black 

 remiges, black rectrices banded witli grey, and bare reddish 

 orbits; the neck-feathers being hackled as in Caloenas. In 

 Myristicivora the general plumage is white, but M. Ucolor, of 

 the Malay Archipelago, has black wing-quills and tip to the tail ; 

 the similar 3L spilorrhoa of Australia and Papuasia, the yellower 

 M. mljiavescens of ISTew Ireland, and the blacker-tailed M. melanura 

 of the Moluccas, have black spots near the vent ; M. luctuosa, of 

 Celebes and the Sula Islands, has the remiges nearly grey. 



FhaenorrJdna goliath, of New Caledonia and the Isle of 

 Pines, is slaty-black, with maroon patches on the wing-coverts 

 and abdomen, black quills, and a broad chestnut tail-bar. 



The forty to fifty species of Carpophaga range from India to 

 Hainan and Fiji. C. concinna, found in the Moluccas, Tenimber, 

 Ke, and Aru Islands, is metallic bronzy-green with grey head 

 and lower surface ; C. aenea, extending from India and Ceylon 

 to Hainan and Flores, has more vinaceous lower parts and greener 

 tail ; C. latrans, of Fiji, is nearly brown above ; C. zoeae, of 

 Papuasia, has a chestnut mantle and black pectoral band. 

 C. griseipectus, of the Philippines, has a grey back with blackish- 

 green spots, and a chestnut lower breast ; C. basilica, of the 

 Halmahera group, has a pinkish-white head and upper breast, a 

 rufous lower breast, and a broad grey tip to the tail ; C. cuprea, 

 of Southern India, is brown, with white throat, greyish-pink 

 head, neck, mantle, and under parts ; C. poecilorrlioa, of North 

 Celebes, is glossy greenish-black above with grey head, mantle, 

 and chest, and brown breast with ochre markings ; C. pinon, 

 of New Guinea and the Western Papuan Islands, is slaty-grey 

 with a white forehead, a ring of white feathers round the 

 naked red orbits, and a purplish-chestnut lower breast. Large 

 flocks commonly gather after breeding. The seven species of 

 GloUcera, remarkable for a fleshy knob at the base of the bill, 

 may be represented by C. pacifica, ranging from New Guinea to 

 Samoa, and C. ruhricera, of New Ireland, New Britain, New 

 Hanover, and the Duke of York Island. The former has a grey 

 head, bronzy-green upper parts, bluer remiges and rectrices and 

 pinkish lower surface, the knob being black. The latter has a 

 vinous head, grey mantle, chestnut abdomen, and red knob. 



