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pure white ; remainder of lower surface of body white, faintly 

 washed with ashy grey, the flanks being dark ashy grey ; a 

 distinct white ring round the eye, formed by the minute 

 feathers of the eyelids ; above ashy olive, each feather, except 

 those of the uropygium, boldly centred with brown ; upper 

 surface of the rectrices ashy olive like the back, the middle 

 pair with a narrow dark brown central line on each side of 

 the shaft ; no striations or terminal marks on the rectrices ; 

 upper surface of the wing, when closed, ashy olive like the 

 back, the secondary coverts being centred with brown ; inner 

 edges of the basal portion of the quill-webs underneath white, 

 passing into tawny on the tertiaries. The tail consists of very 

 broad feathers much graduated ; legs (in dried skin) brown. 



Wing 2 inches, tail 3-25, bill from nostril 0-28, tarsus 0-75. 



Described from an example of a male obtained by Surgeon- 

 Major Day at Dobri, Lower Bengal, on the 27th of November, 

 1873. 



lanthoenas nicoharica^ n. sp. 



Entire head, nape, cheeks, and neck dark French grey, chin 

 and throat albescent grey ; breast and abdomen darker grey 

 than the head ; feathers of the back and sides of the neck 

 tipped with iridescent colours of changing green and pinkish 

 violet ; lower down a broad zone of dark grey feathers with 

 bright green reflections, followed by an interscapular zone of 

 iron-grey feathers with pinkish-violet reflections ; lesser wing- 

 coverts iron-grey, with semilunar terminal pinkish-violet 

 edgings. All the iridescent tints described alter from green 

 to violet or violet to green, according to the light in which 

 the individual is held. Back, uropygium, and uj^per tail- 

 coverts dark ashy grey, many shades darker than the head, 

 and tinted with iridescent hues ; quills and rectrices almost 

 black ; base of the bill and eyelids bright red. 



Wing 9"75 inches, tail 6*50, bill from forehead 1*37, 

 tarsus 1, middle toe with claw 1*87. 



Described from examples obtained in Trinkut and Nang- 

 cowry islands, Nicobars, by Captain Wimberley. 



lj\kQ lanthoenas jjcdumhoides (Hume), this species possesses 

 twelve rectrices, and is a true lantlioenas. It is a representa- 

 tive form of the Andaman species, from which it is chiefly 

 distinguished by wanting the pearly-white or greyish-white 

 liead, throat, and nape. 



Carpophaga pulcliella^ n. sp. 

 Head, neck, throat, breast, lower surface, and under wing- 



