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of the subgenus Leucotreron has been found in Sula , and it will be of interest 

 in the future to know if P. suhgulari^ conforms to what seems to be the general 

 rule and presents no appreciable diiferences in that group of islands. 



^ 258. PTILOPUS MELANOCEPHALUS (Forst). 



Javan Black-capped Fruit-pigeon. 

 Plate XXXVin. 



a. Columba melanocephala (I) Forst., Zool. Ind. 1781, 16, pi. VTI; (II) Temm. & Knip, 



Pig. 69, pi. 30 (1808—11). 

 h. Ptilonopus melanocephalus (1) Wall., P. Z. S. 1863, 486; (2) id., Ibis 1865, 381, pt. 

 Ptilopus melanocephalus (1) ScliL, K T. D. m, 1866, 207, pt.; (2) id., Mus. P.-B., Coliunbae, 



1873, 28, pt; (3) Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, 551 (except Sula Besi); (4) Salvad., Oat. 



B. XXI, 1893, 142; (5) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 179, 553, 563, 573, 575, 589, 597. 



c. Jotreron melanocephala (1) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. VII, 1875, 671. 



d. Ptilopus melanauchen (Salvad.) (1) Biittik., Zool. Erg. Weber's Reise in Ost-Ind. 1893, 



m, 287. 



For further synonymy and references of. Salvadori 4. 



Figures and descriptions. Forst. a I; Temminck & Knip « Zf; Elliot 5; Salvadori 4. 



Adult male. Parrot-green; head and neck wliitisli grey; occiput and back of neck black; 

 chin and middle of throat pale lemon-yellow; under tail-coverts lake-red; the 

 shorter ones and vent orange-yellow; quills and tail below dusky smoke-grey, 

 the tip of the latter paler. "Edge of the eyeUds light yellow; irides of three colours, 

 an outer ring light yellow, a middle one dark grey, and the inner one hght grey; 

 bill gi-een-yeUow; feet vinous red" — Vorderman in Salvad. 4. Wing 115 mm; 

 tail 85 c; tarsus 19; bill from feathers of forehead 14 (Java, v. Schierbrand, Nr.l3235). 



Female. Parrot-green all over; but the longest under tail-coverts lake-red, as in the male. 



Young. Like the female, but the under tail-coverts green. 



Distribution. Java (Horsfield 4, Reinwardt 2, etc.); Bali (Doherty 5); Lombok (Wallace 

 b 1, 4, etc. 5); Siunbawa (Forsteu 2, Doherty 5); Sumba (Riedel in Dresd. Mus., 

 Doherty 5); Satonda (Doherty .5); Flores (Wallace b 1, 4, Semmelink 2); 

 Djampea and Kalao (Everett 5); Saleyer (Weber d 1, Everett 5). 



The Black -capped Green Ptilopodes form an extremely closely -connected 

 set of local species, consisting of P. melanocephalvs (Java to Flores and Saleyer), 

 P. hangueyeiisis (Banguey, Basilan, Mindanao, Sooloo Islands), P. melanospilus 

 (Celebes), P. chrysorrhous (Sula), P. a;anthorrhous (Sangi Islands, Talaut). No fewer 

 than four of the five forms therefore occur in the Celebes Subregion. The 

 range of individual variation in many Pigeons is particularly small; the specific 

 differences between these Ptilopodes are such as might be overlooked by a casual 

 worker, nevertheless we have found it possible to assort specimens from Celebes, 

 Sula, Sangi, Talaut, and Banguey correctly without examining the labels. The 

 following key, which is based upon Count Salvadori's, should serve to 

 distinguish them: 



