( 589 ) 



white ; underside white with not very many small blackish spots. Wing 256 mm. 

 Although of a very pale colour, this bird does not seem separable from S.flammea 

 typica. 



51. Astur torquatus (Temm.). 



c? ad. Wing 216 mm. Broad rufous collar, intermixed with some brownish 

 grey feathers on the hind-neck. " Iris pale orange-ochre ; feet ochreous ; cere 

 greenish yellow ; maxilla black, laterally slaty blue at base ; mandible slate-blue 

 with brownish tip." 



52. Cerchneis xnoluccensis occidentalis Mey. & Wigl. 



Two females, both very typical occidentalis. " Iris dark brown ; beak slaty 

 blue, tip blackish ; ceres and eyelids yellow ; feet ochreous, claws black." 



53. Osmotreron teysmanni Schleg. 



Schlegel described an adult specimen, evidently a male, of this bird in Notes 

 Leyden Mus. I. p. 103. A detailed description is given in Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXI. 

 p. 55. Doherty sent Q^Q female only. The pale yellow face characterises it very well. 

 The mantle is dark green ; rump and upper tail-coverts yellow-green ; the shoulders 

 greyish towards the edge. Otherwise the specimen agrees with the description of 

 the type, which was evidently a male. Wing 159 mm. "Iris pale slaty grey; 

 beak pale yellowish, base olive-green ; feet pinkish purple, soles yellowish." 



*54. Ptilinopus dohertyi llothsch. 

 (Plate XII.) 



This most beautiful pigeon has been well described by Mr. Rothschild in 

 Bull. B. 0. C. V. p. 46, and is figured on Plate XII. Only one adult male was 

 procured in the state of Taimanu. The inner primaries of this species are on the 

 tip as broad as in the middle, the outer web is cut off quite straightly, while the 

 inner web is deeply sinuated. The first primary is not abruptly attenuated on 

 the apical portion. It seems, therefore, not to fit in any of the sections of the genus 

 Ptilinopus, made by Salvador! on p. 70 of his catalogue. 



55. Ptilinopus melanocephalus (Forst.). 



Quite a series from Sumba. Tip of beak and eyelids gamboge-yellow. " Iris 

 pale yellow ; feet magenta." 



56. Carpophaga aenea (L.). 

 Two females from Sumba, resembling those from Sambawa. 



57. Turtur tigrinus (Temm.). 

 Two specimens from Sumba do not differ from typical T. tigrinus. 



