622 Birds of Celebes: Treronidae. 



This species may be distinguished at once from the allied Fruit-pigeons of 

 the Celebesian subregion by its grey, not chestnut, under tail- coverts. Count 

 Salvador! places it next to C. cineracea (Temm.) of Timor, which has a dark 

 ashy brown back and ochreous abdomen and under tail-coverts. Like C. concinna, 

 C. pickeringi seems to be of insular or oceanic habits ; it is known from small 

 islands between Borneo, Celebes and the Philippines, but not as yet on the 

 sun-ounding mainlands. 



^ * 269. CARPOPHAGA RADIATA (Q. G.). 

 Grey-band Imperial Pigeon. 



a. Columba radiata (I) Quoy & Gaim., Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. 1830, I, 244, pi. 26; (IIj 



Prev. & Knip, Pig. H, 1838—43, pi. 29. 

 Carpophaga radiata (1) Gray, Gen. B. 11, 469, Nr. 23 (1844); (IIj Rchb., Columbariae 

 t. CXXXVm, f. 1287 (1848); (3) Wall., Ibis 1865, 387, 398; (3>"') id., Malay 

 Arcliip. 1S69, 11, 431; (4) Schl., Mus. P.-B., Columbae, 1873, 93; (5) Bruggem., 

 Abb. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 86 (Sangir!); (6) Rosenb., Malay. Archip. 1878, 275; 

 (7) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 557; (8) W. Bias., Ztschr. ges. Om. 1885, 307; (9) 

 id., Omis 1888, 617 (Sangbir!); (10) Salvad., Oat. B. XXI, 1893, 210; (11) M. & 

 Wg., Abh. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Nr. 8, p. 15; (12) Grant, Ibis 1896, 461, 476. 



b. Zonoenas radiata (1) Bp., Compt. R. 1854, XXXIX, 1076; (2) id.ib.l855, XL, 217, Nr. 102; 



(3) Rcbb., Tauben, text 1862, 112; (4) Wald., Tr. Z. S. VHI, 1872, 84; (5) 

 Meyer, Ibis 1879, 135 (Sangi!), 136; (6) id., Isis, Dresden 1884, 6 (Sangi!). 



c. Zonaenas radiata (1) Bp., Consp. II, 1854, 38. 



d. ? Carpophaga gularis (1) Bruggem. , Abb. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 101 (Sangir!). 

 "Takura", Miaabassa, Guillemard 7, Nat. Coll. 



"Kua kua" (as also C. paulina), Tjamba Distr., Platen 8. 



For further references cf. Salvador! 10. 



Figures and descriptions. Quoy & Gaimard a I; Knip a II; Reichenbacb II; Bonaparte 

 c 1; Briiggemann 5 (juv.); Salvadovi 10; Grant 12. 



Adult. Head and under-parts grey, darker on nape, whiter on forehead, more rosy on 

 breast; chin and upper throat white, passing into the surrounding grey; lower 

 abdomen and flanks browner; under tail-coverts chestnut (paler in some examples); 

 hind neck purplish black; back, wings, rump, and upper tail-coverts dark 

 parrot-green, washed with maroon-purple on the mantle, where it passes into the 

 dark patch on the neck; primaries black, externally with greenish blue reflections; 

 tail above black, externally with blue reflections and washed with the green of the 

 back, with a broad band of dark grey across the middle; tail below blackish, the 

 outer feathers browner, the grey band below as above; under wing-coverts slaty 

 brown, green near the metacarpal edge; quills below dusky brown, the three outer- 

 most broadened at the middle on the inner web, and then suddenly scalloped out, 

 forming a notch. "'Iris, outer ring red, inner yellow (or orange; orbits greenish); 

 bill brownish black (or olive- green, black at tip); feet dull red (coral-red)" — 

 Guillem. 7, Wall. .5. (Between Manado and Arakan, Aug. — Sept. 1892: Nat. 

 Coll. — C 10913.) 



Sexes. The sexes are similar in coloration (Guillem. 7, Salvad. 10). 



Young. Hind neck and mantle coppery without the blue-black patch; head above pale drab; 



