270 DR. F. H. H. GUILLEMARD ON BIRDS COLLECTED [Mai'. 17, 



albescent chin and throat, and the short bill, the characteristics 

 which led Lord Tweeddale to separate it from the representative 

 P. leucotis, which has been recorded from Luzon, Negros, and 

 Guimaras. 



51. Carpophaga iENEA (Linnseus). 



Carpophaga ccnea, Wald. Tr. Z. S. vol.ix. pt. 2, p. 215 ; Sharpc, 

 Tr. Linn. Soc. u. s. Zool. vol. i. p. 346 ; Salvad. Ucc. di Born, 

 p. 290. 



Hah. Luzon (Meyer) ; Zebu, Leyte, Mindanao, Dinagat, and 

 Basilan {Everett), Negros and Palawan (Steere) ; Sulu (Guille- 

 mard) ; Borneo ( TVallace) . 



a. J . Sulu Island. 



b, c. 5 . Sulu Island, 



Iris crimson ; bill greyish green ; feet dull red. Length 42'0-43'0 

 centims. ; wing 23" 7-24*0 centims. 



Compared with examples of Wallace's from the Timor group, the 

 Sulu birds are seen to be brighter in the iridescence of the back and 

 wings, the head is more vinaceous, there is a well-marked grey 

 collar, and the under wing-coverts are pale dove-colour, not a 

 darkish grey. 



C. cenea seemed abundant enough on Sulu Island, but, like 

 M> bicolor, it was difficult to obtain, owing to the great height of the 

 trees which it frequented. 



52. Carpophaga pickeringi, Cassin. 



Carpophaga pickeringi, Cass. Pr. Philadelph. Acad. 1854, p. 228 ; 

 id. U.S. Expl. Exp. p. 267, pi. xxvii. ; Sharpe, Tr. Linn. Soc. n. s. 

 i. p. 353 ; id. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 316. 



a. $ . Sulu Island. 



Iris dull red ; space round eye red ; bill bluish green ; feet and 

 tarsus dull purplish red. Length 42-0-44-0 centims. ; wing 22"8- 

 25*5 centims. ; tarsus 3' 2 centims. 



Head ash colour, more or less tinged with vinaceous ; forehead 

 and chin white ; throat and breast pale vinaceous ; sides of body, 

 abdomen, and thighs pale asii ; under tail-coverts somewhat darker, 

 and more or less washed with dull fawn-colour towards the tips. 

 Mantle pale clear ash ; back, outer surface of wings, and uropygium 

 dull dark grey with faint pinkish and green iridescence, hoary in 

 some lights. Tail above dull metallic green ; below greyish, schis- 

 taceous. 



Being unable satisfactorily to determine this species from Cassin's 

 very short description of C. pickeringi, I forwarded an example 

 to Mr. Ridgway, who kindly compared it with the type in the 

 Washington Museum. He writes: — "I believe them to be speci- 

 fically identical. The slight differences which I am able to detect 

 are as follows : — 



" In the type of C. pickeringi the nape is much less purely grey. 



