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Remarks. — This species has a hoarse croaking note, like that 

 of C. chalyhura. It was abundant in Waigiou, and both sexes 

 had the cere nearly equally swollen during the three months that 

 I stayed there. It does not agree with Bonaparte^s descrip- 

 tion of C sundevalli, with which it has been hitherto con- 

 founded; and whether it is the bird named C. pacifica by 

 Gmelin it is impossible now to determine. I have therefore 

 thought it better to give it a new name, although it is un- 

 doubtedly the same as that figured by Bonaparte in his ' Icono- 

 graphie ' under the name of C. pacifica. 



48. Carpophaga sundevallt, Bp. Consp. ii. p. 32; Icon. 

 Pig. pi. 40. 



Hab. Caroline Island [Paris Mus.) ; Louisiade Archipelago 

 [B. M.). 



49. Carpophaga rubricera, Gr. ; Bp. Consp. ii. p. 31. 

 Hab. New Ireland [Paris Mus.) . 



[Carpophaga, Selby.) 



50. Carpophaga ^nea (L.) ; Knip, Pig. i. t. 3 ; Bp. Consp. 

 ii. t. 32. 



Hab. Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Lombock, Flores [Wall.), 

 Malay Peninsula. 



The Borneo specimens are rather darker and more richly 

 coloured. Bill lead-colour; iris, eyelids, feet, and base of bill 

 purple red. Total length 17 in. This species feeds on various 

 fruits, sometimes eating small figs, the size of currants, at others 

 swallowing hard globular palm-fruits an inch in diameter. 

 Allied to this are 



C. sylvatica, Tickell. India generally. 



C. insularis, Blyth, Nicobar Islands. 



51. Carpophaga chalybura, Bp. Consp. ii. p. 32; Icon. 

 Pig. pi. 43. 



Hab. Philippine Islands. 



52. Carpophaga concinna, n. s. [C. chalybura, G. E. Gray, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 186.) 



Cinereo-alba, capite cinerascente (fronte albo marginata), nucha 

 cinereo-vinacea, dorso tectricibusque alarum viride pur- 



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