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A male and a female of this fine new pigeon have been sent by Mr. William 

 Doherty, who collected them between 2000 and 3000 feet in Bali. He describes 

 the eye as " dark red-brown ; feet magenta; beak black." The top and sides of 

 the head are deep greyish vinous, paler on the forehead: sides of the head also 

 slightly paler. Chin pale vinous with a slight greyish tinge. Fore-neck and 

 breast greyish vinous, a little more greyish than the head ; abdomen paler and 

 a little more vinaceous. Thighs grey with only a faint vinaceous tinge. Under 

 tail-coverts chestnut. Rest of upper parts dark brown with a slight greyish and 

 metallic greenish gloss, slaty and somewhat purplish on the rump. Tail above 

 like the back, tips dusky grey for about 43 mm., a little darker at the edges. Tail 

 below much paler, tips almost whitish. Under wing-coverts dark slaty grey, 

 c?. Wing 207 mm.; tail 160; culmen from end of feathering to tip 19; tarsus 26, 

 feathered for two-thirds ; middle toe without claw 30 mm. The female is like 

 the male, but a little smaller (wing 194 mm.); top of head and hind-neck deeper 

 vinous. Named in honour of my friend William Doherty.' 



I first thought that the name Ducula concolor, Bonaparte in Compt. 

 Rend. XLIII. p. 836 (1856), was referable to this species. I wrote to Professor 

 Reichenow for particulars about the type of D. concolor, which the author said 

 he had seen in the Berlin Museum, but I was informed that no specimen of a 

 pigeon in the Berlin Museum under that name was to be found, nor was there 

 a specimen answering the description. As Bonaparte's description is insufficient 

 and not clear, and as he says it came from the same country as C. lacernulata, 

 i.e. Java, his name cannot be referred to any species with certainty, and D. concolor 

 must for the present remain with a query among the synonyms of either 

 C. lacernulata (where it has been placed by Salvadori, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XVI. 

 p. 215) or C. williami. 



84. Ptilinopus albocinctus baliensis subsp. nov. 



Mr. Doherty sent three skins from Bali, shot in heights of 2000 to 3000 feet, 

 in April. They differ from the type of P. albocinctus in the British Museum 

 in having the wing a little shorter, the upper surface and especially the greater 

 wing-coverts with a purplish coppery gloss, the back just behind the grey of 

 the neck with a greenish bronzy gloss. All these characters are found in 

 P. albocinctus typicus, of which I have a large series before me now, but only 

 in immature individuals. I see no reason to assume that the three birds from 

 Bali are immature, and therefore think that they belong to a slightly differentiated, 

 and perhaps a little degenerated, form of P. albocinctus. Wing 150 153 mm. 

 This species was hitherto only known from Flores, but inhabits, as the collections 

 now under my hands prove, all the islands between Flores and Java. According 

 to Doherty the iris of the Bali form is orange-red, the feet vermilion, the 

 beak ochreous, basally bluish. It seems to be rare in Bali, where it evidently 

 reaches its most westerly home, and where it should rather not occur, according 

 to Wallace's theory. 



85. Ptilinopus melanocephalus (Forst.) 



One female juv., shot on the coast. " Iris ochreous ; feet purplish crimson/' 



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