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remarking that he does not find that they differ in size, but that "the entire unde r 

 surface is not light grey, but creamy white with only a slight cinereous "tinge". 



It would be well to know whether C. concinna is really a stationary species, 

 or like Myristicivora hicolor a seasonal wanderer among these islands, whether 

 its colours brighten in the breeding season, or whether it differs on every is- 

 land, etc., before commencing to "split" it into subspecies. 



Fruits and seeds were found in the stomachs of specimens obtained by hte 

 "Challenger" Expedition at Kei. Wallace i-emarks that it has "a remarkably 

 loud, hoarse, booming note, like the roar of a wild beast". 



i * 264. CARPOPHAGA PAULINA (Bp.). 



Celebes Imperial Pigeon. 



a.;Columba aenea, g (I) Temni. &Knip, Pig. pi. 4 (1808 — 11). 



b. Ducula paulina (1) Bp., Consp. 11, 1854, 35 (ex Temm. MS.); (2) id., Compt. Rend. 



XXXIX, 1854, 1076; XL, 1855, 217, Nr. 94; (3) id., Coup d'Oeil Ordre Pig. 1855, 

 16, 55; (IV) Rchb., Tauben I, 1862, 115, 199, t. 230 b., fig. 3360, Novitiae, t. VI, 

 fig. 69. 



c. Carpophaga rufinuchalis (1) Cass., Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1854, 228. 



Carpophaga paulina (1) Bp., Compt. Rend. XLI, 1855, 247; (2) Wall., P. Z. S. 1862, 335, 

 345 (Sula); (3) id., Ibis 1865, 385, 398; (4) Schl., Ned. Tdschr. Dierk. m, 1S66, 

 200; (5) Wald., Tr. Z. S. Vin, 1872, 83; (6) Schl., Mus. P.-B., Columbae, 1873 

 84; (7j Wald., Tr. Z. S. IX, 1875, 215; (8) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 125, 146; (8'''') 

 Legge, B. Ceylon 1880, 719; (9) Cab., J. f. O. 1882, 125; (10) Guillem., P. Z. S. 



1885, 557; (11) W. Bias., Z. ges. Orn. 1885, 306; (11"'') Guillem., Cniise "Marchesa" 



1886, n, 186; (12) Hickson, Nat. in N. Celebes 1889, 93; (13) Salvad., Cat. B. XXI, 

 1893, 189; (14) P. & F. Sarasin, Z. Erdk. Berlin 1894, 382; (15) Grant, Ibis 

 1895, 116; (16) M. & Wg., Abh. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Nr. 8, p. 15; (17) iid., ib. 1896 

 Nr. 1, p. 14; (18) iid., ib. 1896, Nr. 2, p. 20; (19) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1897, 160, 165. 



d. Carpophaga paulinae (1) Briiggem., Abh. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 84; (2) Pelz, Verb. 



z.-b. Ges. Wien 1876, 719. 



"Kum-kum idiu" (Green Carpophaga), Malay name, Minahassa, Meyer 8; Nat. Coll. 



"Kur-kur", near Manado, Nat. Coll. 



"Kua-kua", Tjamba Distr., S. Celebes, Platen 11. 



"Kuha", Tonkean, E. Celebes, Nat. Coll. 



"Tokulok", Balante, E. Celebes, Nat. Coll. 



For further references cf. Salvadori 13. 



Figures and descriptions. Knip a I; Reichenbach b IV; Schlegel 4; Salvadori 13. 



Adult male. Head above, throat and under-parts grey, darkest on occiput and sides 

 of neck, washed with pui-plish on crown, throat and jugulvmi, with vinaceous on breast 

 and abdomen, with rose on sides of head and middle of abdomen; under tail- 

 coverts chestnut; forehead, in front of eyes, and chin white, passing into grey; 

 hind neck orange-cinnamon-rufous; ear-coverts washed with this colour; above 

 the mantle dark brown-grey; entire back, upper tail-coverts and upper wing- 

 coverts metalhc golden-green; quills above mealy blackish myrtle-green, the inner 

 ones washed with golden-green; quills below broccoH-brown ; under wing-coverts 

 dark grey; tail above dark bluish green; below broccoli-brown. "Bill lead-blue, 



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