Birds of Celebes: Treronidae. 621 



800 miles of very mountainous country to the North. The present species must 

 be a very rare bird in the North. 



Count Salvadori places it next to C.pistrinaria Bp. of the Solomon Islands 

 and C. vanwycki Cass, of the New Britain group, which may be distinguished 

 by their having the head above grey. C. aenea may be recognised from it by 

 its bright bronze-green back ; C. paulina by the same character and further by 

 its orange-cinnamon nape; C. pickeringi, which occurs in Talaut, by its grey under 

 tail-coverts and mealy bottle-gi'een back and wings. 



-^268. CARPOPHAGA PIOKERINGI Cass. 

 Sooloo-Sea Imperial Pigeon. 



n. Carpophaga aenea (1) Peale (nee Linn.), U. S. Expl. Exp., Zool. 1848, 198. 



Carpophaga pickeringi (1) Cass., Pr. Ae. So. Philad. VII, 1854, 228; (II) id., U. S. Expl. 

 Exp. 2'"i ed. 1858, 267, pi. XXVn; (III) Rchb., Tauben 1862, 184, Novitiae t. VI, 

 f. 72; (4) Sharpe, Tr. L. S. 1877, (2) I, 311, 353; (5) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 

 270, 418, 420; (6) id.. Cruise "Marchesa" 1886, 13; (7) Everett, Ibis 1888, 282; 

 (8) W. Bias., J. f.-Q. 1890, 137; (9) Salvad., Cat. B. XXI, 1893, 201; (10) Sliarpe, 

 Ibis 1894, 241, 257; (11) M. & Wg., J. f. O. 1894, 238, 248. 



h. Carpophaga everetti (1) Grant, Ann. & Mag. K H. 1888, (6) 11, 351. 



"Arana adioa", Talaut, Nat. Coll. 



For further synonymy and references cf. Salvadori 9. 



Figures and descriptions. Cassin II\ Reich enbach ZZ7; Salvadori 9. 



Adult. Head, neck, under-parts and under wing- and tail-coverts grey, washed with 

 rose-pink on head, breast and abdomen, under tail-coverts browner; frontal edge, a 

 ring round the eyes, loral and malar region, chin and upper tlnoat whitish, passing 

 into grey; back, wings and tail mealy bottle-green, the inner quills, longer tail- 

 coverts and middle tail-feathers above more metallic; quills and tail below broccoU- 

 brown, the shafts below whitish (above black): "Ii-is dull red; space round eye red; 

 bill bluish green; feet and tarsus dull purphsh red" — Guillem. 5 (Kabruang, Nov. 

 1893: Nat. Coll. — C 13104). 



Sexes. The sexes are similar (Guillem. 5, Salvad. 9). 



Measurements (3, Kabruang). "Wing 230 — 235 rom; tad c. 140—155; tarsus c. 32; bill from 

 first feathers of forehead i. e. behind nostril 19 — 21.5. 



Distribution. Mantanani Islands off N. Borneo (Everett 7, 9); Mangsi Island in Balabac 

 Strait (Peale a 1, 5); Cagayan Sooloo (Guillem. 5); Sooloo Islands — Sooloo 

 (Guillem. 5); Sibutu — "seen only" (Everett 10); Talaut Islands — Kabruang 

 (Nat. Coll.). 



Five specimens — three in the Dresden, two in the Tring Museum — of 

 this Pigeon were killed by our native hunters in November, 1893, on the island 

 of Kabruang, Talaut. Compared with an example from Cagayan Sooloo, kindly 

 lent to us by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, the Talaut birds display generally 

 darker tints, slightly darker grey on nape, mantle and under wing-coverts, darker 

 bottle-green on back, wings and tail, and somewhat darker under surface, but 

 apparently somewhat more white on throat. These differences may be racial, 

 or seasonal, or individual. 



