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The bill and feet are bluish lead, with the tip of the former bright 
yellow ; and the iris is almost black. 
Hab. Sula Islands and Celebes. 
CaRPOPHAGA PAULINA. 
Columba paulina, Temm.; Knip, Pig. i. t. 4. 
The specimens have the rich brown of the nape rather less dilated 
than in those from Celebes. Bill lead-colour, the base above as far 
as the nostrils deep red; eyelids red; feet purplish red ; iris blood- 
red. 
Hab. Sula Islands and Celebes. 
MAcROPYGIA ALBICAPILLA. 
Macropygia albicapilla, Temm.; Bp. Consp. ii. 57. 
Bill and feet dusky purple ; iris pinky pearl-colour. This agrees 
with the specimens from Menado (Celebes), and is quite distinct 
from the species that occur in the Moluccas. 
Hab. Sula Islands and Celebes. 
TURAC@HNA MENADENSIS. 
Columba menadensis, Q. & G. Voy. Astr. t. 30. 
Bill and feet black ; orbits bare, red; iris blood-red. The sexes 
in this species are alike. 
Hab. Sula Islands and Celebes. 
CHALCOPHAPS MOLUCCENSIS. 
Chaleophaps moluccensis,G.R. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p.361. 
The female of this species has the crown fuscous ; the forehead 
whitish, mixed with brown ; the whole under surface of a light pur- 
plish brown somewhat irrorated with fuscous ; the upper tail-coverts 
and tail are more or less rufous, with the feathers black-tipped ; the 
purple and vinaceous colours on the back of the male are replaced 
by a dusky-olive tint. In the adult bird of both sexes the bill is 
coral-red, and the feet pink ; iris dark olive. 
Total length 10 inches. 
Hab. Sula Islands, Bouru, and all the other islands of the Mo- 
luccas. 
RALLUS SULCIROSTRIS. 
Similis R. celebensi, sed gula nigra, rostro magis elongato, man- 
dibule inferioris basi utrinque sulcata et naribus elongatis li- 
nearibus. 
Very near Rallus celebensis (Q. & G. Voy. Astr. pl. 24), perhaps 
only a variety of that species; the chin, cheeks, and throat are, 
however, generally black, or but slightly irrorated with white ; the 
bill is decidedly longer and less elevated in proportion at the base ; 
the nasal furrow is longer, and the nostrils longer and linear ; on the 
sides of the lower mandible is a furrow reaching half the length of 
