344 MR. A. H. WALLACE ON THE BIRDS [DcC. 9, 



Treron GRISEICAUDA. 



. Treron griseicauda, G. R. Gray, B. M. Cat. Columbse, p. 10. 



Flavo-viridis ; pileo genisque plumb eis ; dorso medio scapularibus- 

 que purpureo-castaneis ; dorso superiore lateribusque colli fulvo 

 tinctis ; uropygio rectricibusque duabus mediis lutescentibus ; 

 tectricibus caudcB inferioribus rvjis, ad basin albo variis ; alis 

 plumbeo-nigris, tectricibus rernigibusque secundariis fiavo mar- 

 ginatis ; rectricibus nigris, albo-griseo terminatis ; rostro albo- 

 ti : .mridi, basi viridi-olivaceo ; pedibus rubris. 



Foem. Do?'so scapularibusque fusco-viridibus ; tectricibus caudd 

 inferioribus albis, viridi maculatis. 



Greenish yellow, richer on the rump, and lighter beneath ; top of 

 head and cheeks in front of the eyes ashy blue, paler near the bill ; 

 keel of the bill bare above the nostrils ; chin nearly white ; sides of 

 the neck above and between the shoulders tinged with orange-brown ; 

 ■wings slaty black ; secondaries and wing-coverts more or less broadly 

 yellow-margined ; under tail-coverts rufous, more or less marked 

 with white and green at the base and on the thighs ; tail with the 

 two middle feathers entirely olive-yellow, the rest slaty black with 

 a broad terminal band of ashy white ; wings beneath, under wing- 

 coverts, and sides of the body ash-coloured ; bill pale yellow-greeri, 

 the base dark olive-green ; iris red ; orbits bare, green ; feet red. 

 The female wants the purple colour on the back and wings, and has 

 the under tail-coverts white or rufous white, more or less green- 

 spotted. 



Total length 10| inches ; wing 6 inches. 



Hab. Sula Islands and Celebes. 

 ' Bemark. — I have compared this with a specimen named by Mr. 

 Q. R. Gray, in the British Museum. 



Ptilonopus melanocephalus, var. 



Columba melanocephala, Gra. ; Knip, Pig. i. t. 30. 



The numerous specimens sent are all slightly different from those 

 obtained in Java, Lombock, and Celebes — the yellow streak on the 

 throat being of a much deeper colour, and the black occipital patch 

 "decidedly smaller. 



In the Java bird the bill is yellow, with a greenish horny tip, the 

 bare skin of the orbits is green, the feet pink, and the iris yellow. 



Hab. Sula Islands, Celebes, Lombock, and Java. 



Carpophaga luctuosa. 



Columba luctuosa, Reinw. ; Temm. PI. Col. 247. 



The specimens agree with those from Celebes ; but a variety 

 -occurs with the outer tail-feathers black at the tip. This species 

 may be at once distinguished from others of the white group of Car- 

 pophaga {Myristicivora) by the powdery- white colour almost con- 

 cealing the black of the wings. 



