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A NEW RACE OF NUTMEG-PIGEON FROM PULO CONDORE 



By C. Boden Kloss, m.b.o.u., c.f.a.o.u. 



- During a second visit in December 1920 to Pulo Condore, off 

 Cochin-China, Mr. W. J. F. Williamson's collector obtained two 

 specimens of a Nutmeg-Pigeon which, though remarkably distinct, 

 I propose to describe as a race of Myristicivora bicolor. It differs 

 from the typical form in that, where that is cream-white, this is 

 butter-yellow. 



I have satisfied myself by questioning the collector, who 

 observed several living birds, that this tone is not produced by grease 

 in the dead skin ; but that it is the natural colour of the bird. The 

 skins are, in fact, utterly different in colour from grease-soaked 

 skins of M. b. bicolor. 



t~ Myristicivora bicolor condorensis, subsp. nov. 



Like the typical race in arrangement of colours, but maize- 

 yellow (Ridgway), where that is white or creamy white, except near 

 the extremity of the outer tail-feathers where the yellow tends to be- 

 come whitish. 



Specimens examined. Two males from Pulo Condore, collect- 

 ed on 3 November, 1920, by Mr. W. J. F. Williamson's collector. 



Total length 395, 390*; tail 153, 152*; wing 225, 230*; 

 tarsus 32, 31* ; bill from gape 33.5, 32* mm. 



" Iris dark, bill and feet plumbeous." 



*Type. 

 JOURN. NAT. HIST. SOC. SIAM., VOL. IV, NO. 3, 1921. 



