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The bill and feet are bluish lead, with the tip of the former bright 

 yellow ; and the iris is almost black. 

 Hab. Sula Islands and Celebes. 



CaRPOPHAGA PAULINA. 



Columba paulina, Temm. ; Knip, Pig. i. t. 4. 



The specimens have the rich brown of the nape rather less dilated 

 than in those from Celebes. Bill lead-colour, the base above as far 

 as the nostrils deep red ; eyelids red ; feet purplish red ; iris blood- 

 red. 



Hab. Sula Islands and Celebes. 



Macropygia albicapilla. 



Macropygia albicapilla, Temm. ; Bp. Consp. ii. 57- 



Bill and feet dusky purple ; iris pinky pearl-colour. This agrees 

 with the specimens from Menado (Celebes), and is quite distinct 

 from the species that occur in the Moluccas. 



Sab. Sula Islands and Celebes. 



Turacgena menadensis. 

 Columba menadensis, Q. & G. Voy. Astr. t. 30. 

 Bill and feet black ; orbits bare, red ; iris blood-red. The sexes 

 in this species are alike. 



Hab. Sula Islands and Celebes. 



Chalcophaps moluccensis. 



Chalcophaps mo^Mccewsi*, G. R. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc.l860,p.361. 



The female of this species has the crown fuscous ; the forehead 

 whitish, mixed with brown ; the whole under surface of a light pur- 

 plish brown somewhat irrorated with fuscous ; the upper tail-coverts 

 and tail are more or less rufous, with the feathers black-tipped ; the 

 purple and vinaceous colours on the back of the male are replaced 

 by a dusky-olive tint. In the adult bird of both sexes the bill is 

 coral-red, and the feet pink ; iris dark olive. 



Total length 10 inches. 



Hab. Sula Islands, Bouru, and all the other islands of the Mo- 

 luccas. 



Rallus sulcirostris. 



Similis R. celebensi, sed gula nigra, rostro magis elongate, man- 



dibulcn inferioris basi utrinque sulcata et naribus elongatis li- 



nedribus. 



Very near Rallus celebensis (Q. & G. Voy. Astr. pi. 24), perhaps 

 only a variety of that species ; the chin, cheeks, and throat are, 

 however, generally black, or but slightly irrorated with white ; the 

 bill is decidedly longer and less elevated in proportion at the base ; 

 the nasal furrow is longer, and the nostrils longer and linear ; on the 

 sides of the lower mandible is a furrow reaching half the length of 



