NO. 15 lURDS OF THE PACIFIC WAR AREA BAKER II 



DUCULA RUBRICERA RUFIGULA (Salvador!) 



Carpophaga rufigiila Salvadori, Atti R. Acad. Sci. Torino, vol. 13, 1878, p. 

 536. (Wanga, San Cristobal Island, Solomon Islands.) 



Bougainville Island : Cape Torokina — 2 males, i female, August 

 28, October 18, 27. Guadalcanal Island: Lunga Point — 3 males, 

 I female, November 14, 21, 22; Doma Cove — 2 females, January 6. 



Specimens collected in October, November, and January were 

 molting body and wing feathers. 



DUCULA PISTRINARIA PISTRINARIA Bonaparte 



Diicnla pistrinaria Bonaparte, Consp. Av., vol. 2, 1855, p. ^6. (St. George, 

 Solomon Islands.) 



Bougainville Island : Cape Torokina — 2 males, August 23, October 



27- _ 



The birds were molting body feathers when collected. 



MACROPYGIA MACKINLAYI AROSSI Tristram 



Macropygia arossi Tristram, Ibis, October 1879, p. 443. (Makira Harbor, 

 San Cristobal Island.) 



Bougainville Island: Jaba River — i female, August 30. Guadal- 

 canal Island : Doma Cove — i female, December 14. 



CHALCOPHAPS STEPHANI MORTONI Ramsay 



Chalcophaps mortoni Ramsay, Nature, vol. 25, Jan. ig, 1882, p. 282. (Solomon 

 Islands.) Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 6, March 1882, p. 725. 

 (Ugi, Solomon Islands.) 



Guadalcanal Island : Doma Cove — i female, December 6, 



CALOENAS NICOBARICA NICOBARICA (Linnaeus) 



Cohimba nicobarica Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 164. ("insula 

 Nicombar prope Pegu n;(//c?nn" = Nicobar Islands.) 



Guadalcanal Island : Doma Cove — i male, i female, December 10. 

 The two birds were shot by Muennink in a grove of large trees. 



EOS CARDINALIS (G. R. Gray) 



Lorius cardinalis G. R. Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. 3, 1849, app., p. 20. (Solomon 

 Islands, based on Voy. Pole Sud, Atlas, Ois., pi. 24 bis, fig. 2.) 



Bougainville Island : Cape Torokina — 4 males, 6 females, August 

 28, September 11, 21, 22, October i, 12, 18, 20, 25. Guadalcanal 

 Island : Lunga Point — i male, November 14. 



