Mr. W. R. 0. Grant on Pigeons from Borneo. 351 



The coloration of the bib is well marked, and the irides- 

 cence resembles that of the bronze-winged pigeon, the paler 

 streaks on the sides occurring in broad blotches between the 

 darker pigment-bands. The median lins are dark brownish. 

 The edges of the second and third dorsal and the two anal fins, 

 however, are whitish. Mr. Day observes that thej are 

 darkest at their outer edges. The margin of the tail, how- 

 ever, is bounded by a blackish belt. A blackish touch 

 occurs in front of the first dorsal. The inner region of the 

 ventrals is greyish, but the two anterior or outer rays are 

 pale, indeed whitish towards the tip, and with two free fila- 

 ments distally. 



By the aid of the gill-rakers and other points the difi'erences 

 between the forms are now more apparent. In this con- 

 nexion it is possible that a mistake has occurred, it may be 

 without Mr. Day's knowledge, in labelling the specimen 

 presented by him to the Edinburgh Museum of Science and 

 Art, for in that collection a poor-cod 9^ inches long is termed 

 ^' Gadus luscus.^^ 



XLVI. — Notes on Pigeons collected hy Mr. A. H. Everett in 

 Mantanani and Bang uey , off the North-west Coast of Borneo. 

 By W. E,. Ogilvie Grant. 



Carpophaga Everetti^ sp. n. 



This species is most nearly allied to C. Pickeringi, Cassin, 

 from Mangsi, Sooloo Islands, but may be at once distinguished 

 by the colour of the back, rump, and wings, which are dark 

 grey slightly glossed with dull violet-copper, instead of being 

 " ashy brown, with a green metallic lustre." Head, neck, 

 and breast pale purplish grey, gradually melting into pale 

 pearly grey on the mantle and sides of the neck. Throat pale 

 pinkish white ; abdomen, sides of the body, and flanks pale 

 grey. Feathers round the eyes and the base of the bill 

 whitish. Back, rump, and wings dark grey, slightly glossed 

 with dark violet-copper, and mingling gradually with the 

 mantle. Upper tail-coverts and tail dark ashy brown, with a 

 dark green metallic lustre. Under wing-coverts pale grey. 

 Under tail-coverts and outer web of under surface of primaries 

 pale reddish brown ; rest of under surface of primaries and 

 tail-feathers brownish grey. 



No frontal knob. The third primary is rather longer than 



