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Carpopnaaa, Selby. 
141. CARPOPHAGA AINEA. 
Palumbus moluccensis, Briss. Orn. i. p. 148, no. 41, “ ex Moluccis insulis”’ (1760). 
Columba enea, Linn. 8. N. i. p. 283, no. 22 (1776), ex Briss. 
Pigeon Ramier des Moluques, D’Aubent. Pl. Enl. 164. 
Columba moluccensis, L. 8. Miiller, Suppl. p. 133, no. 35d (1776), ex D’Aubent. 
Columba sylvatica, Tickell, J. A.S. B. 1833, p. 581, “ Jungles of Borabhim & Dholbhim.” 
Carpophaga pusilla, Blyth, J. A. 8. B. 1849, p. 816, “ Nilgiris ” errore. 
Carpophaga chalybura, Bp. Compt. Rend. xxxix. p. 1074, “ Philippines ” (1854) ; Consp. ii. p. 32 ; 
Iconogr. pl. 42. 
Carpophaga sylvatica “ (Tickell) ,’”’ Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1861, p. 97, “ Philippines.” 
Hab. Luzon, January, April; Negros, March (Meyer). 
Examples from Ceylon, India, Burma, the Andamans, and Java cannot be specifically 
separated from this Philippine species. Mr. Blyth has already remarked (J. c.) that a 
young Philippine example before him did not differ from the Indian and Burmese 
species. The Sumatran, Bangkan, Sumbawan, and Flores forms are also considered to 
belong to C. ewnea by Professor Schlegel (Mus. Pays-Bas, Columba, p. 85), although he 
keeps C. sylvatica apart as being a smaller race. And Mr. Wallace (Ibis, 1865, p. 383 
includes Lombok and the Malay peninsula within the range of C. wnea. 
Bonaparte (/.¢.) relied on the Philippine bird having the head and neck whiter, and 
on the under surface of the tail being paler and of a steel-grey, and not brown-black. 
The under surface of the rectrices is certainly somewhat paler; but the difference 
between the colouring of the head and neck, as described by Bonaparte, is not apparent 
in Dr. Meyer’s examples, which are in perfect plumage. The chief difference they 
exhibit is in the colouring of the breast, which appears to be more tinged with vinous ; 
and thus the entire under surface is more or less vinous, and not the abdomen only as 
in C. e@nea. On the head, nape, and back of the neck also the rather deep vinous 
shading of C. wnea is absent. Bonaparte’s plate (/. ¢.) so little resembles these Philip- 
pine examples that it cannot be relied on. 
Carpophaga pickeringi, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Philad. vii. p. 228 (1854), and U.S. Expl. Exped. 
pl. 27, 2nd ed., obtained on Mangsi Island, one of the Sooloo archipelago, seems to be 
a distinct species, with light-cinereous under tail-coverts, and consequently related to 
C. perspicillata. ; 
Carpophaga paulina (Temm.), ex Celebes, is always readily. to be distinguished by its _ 
intensely vinous breast, and by its bright rufous nape. Yet an intermediate form is 
said to also occur in Luzon (ef. Schlegel, Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. 1866, p. 201; Mus. 
Pays-Bas, Columba, p. 85)—the Philippine habitat, however, only resting on a single 
example, said to have been obtained in Luzon by M. H. Gevers. 
The following measurements are taken (the Luzon male excepted) from examples in 
full plumage. 
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