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*55. Ptilinopus albocinctus Wall. 



Tambora at elevations of 3000 feet. 



" Iris crimson ; beak yellowish green, tip ochreous ; feet dark beet-red." 



*56. Ptilinopus melanocephalus (Forst.). 

 Tambora, low country and np to 3000 feet. 



*57. Carpophaga aenea (L.). 



Tambora, low country as well as up to 3000 feet. " Iris dark crimson ; eyelids 

 dark red ; feet dull purple-red ; base of beak dark red, tip dull slaty." 



Two vividly coloured birds, below rather light, throat vinous grey, crown pale, 

 the latter being conspicuously darker in skins from Cachar (E. C. S. Baker coll.) 

 and Tenasserim (Col. Bingham coll.). With a large material for study it will 

 probably be possible to divide C. aenea into several subspecies. (See Salvador!, 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XVI. p. 193.) 



*58. Macropygia ruficeps orientalis subsp. nov. 



There are several small specimens of Macropygia, one marked male, one marked 

 female, from Tambora, Sambawa, shot at elevations of about 3000 feet, one immature 

 male from the low country of Tambora, and one male from Bali, shot in low country. 

 These birds agree with M. ruficeps (Temm.), except in their longer wings and their 

 generally darker, deeper rufous under tail-coverts. The supposed female may 

 possibly not be a female, but a somewhat young male, for it has no black on 

 throat and breast, and differs from the male only in having the feathers of the 

 hind-neck and upper back of an earthy brown, without any metallic gloss, and all 

 the rest of the upper surface of a paler brown. The bird from Bali is distinctly 

 smaller, but has the under tail-coverts very deep rufous. The Sambawa bird might, 

 therefore, stand as a new subspecies, and the Bali form is perhaps intermediate 

 between Macropygia ruficeps orientalis from Sambawa and M. ruficeps typica from 

 Java and Sumatra. The wing of the Tambora birds measures 151 and 155 mm., 

 that of the young bird 142 mm., but the latter is not full grown. The tails are 

 165 mm. long. The bird from Bali has the wing 145, the tail 150 mm. long. 



In my opinion the specimens from Tenasserim and Burma constitute another 

 subspecies, characterised by its long wing (149 mm.) and somewhat pale underside, 

 while all our birds from North Borneo are decidedly paler than those from Sumatra 

 and very small. 



59. Turtur bitorquatus (Temm.). 



Low country of the Tambora Peninsula. " Iris orange ; skin round eye and 

 base of beak laterally dark red ; feet dark red, claws brownish ; bill black." 

 Sambawa specimens do not differ from those from Java. 



60. Turtur tigrinus (Temm.). 

 Bima and low country of Tambora. 



