Birds of Celebes: Treronidae. g23 ' 



lower abdomen and under tail-coverts cinnamon-chestnut; bar on the tail narrow and 



ill-defined (Manado — Ai-akan, Vm.— IX. 1892: Nat. Coll. — C 10914). 

 Measurements (7, Minahassa). Wing 207— 219 mm; tail c. 130—140; tarsus 27; bill from 



first feathers 17.5—19. 

 Distribution. Celebes: — Minahassa (Quoy & Gaimard a I, Forslen 4, etc.); Macassar 



(Wallace 5, h 4, 10); Tjamba Distr. (Platen 8). 



This Pigeon was one of the discoveries of Quoy & Gaimard made during- 

 the stay of the "Astrolabe" at Manado in July, 1828. It seems to be one of 

 the rarer Pigeons in the Minahassa. From the Southern Peninsula there are 

 two specimens in the British Museum from Mr. Wallace and one in the Bruns- 

 wick Museum from Dr. Platen; here also it must, therefore, be accounted rare. 

 We have not received the species from any of the islands off the coast, and 

 we suspect that it affects chiefly the hills of the mainland. Two specimens 

 were recorded from Sangi by Briiggemann, and the locality was accepted 

 without query by Meyer and Salvadori. Prof. W. Blasius (9) evidently had 

 some doubts about it. The species was not met with in Sangi by any other 

 collector. Several species of Fischer's collection somehow or other got mis- 

 labelled; in the present case the similarity of this Pigeon to the "Wakian Sangi" 

 (Sangi Dove — Ptilopus gularis) may have had something to do with it. The 

 "Wakian Sangi" (whether it be P. gularis or C. radiata) probably does not belong 

 to Sangi, any more than the "Barbary Dove" (Turtur risorius) belongs to Bar- 

 bary; but such names are misleading, and in the present case even Briiggemann 

 (d 1) seems once to have committed the error of calling C. radiata, Carpophaga 

 gularis. 



Count Salvadori places this species in his subgenus Zonophaps, which is 

 typified by the Celebesian C. forsteni (Prev. & Knip). From this particular 

 species C. radiata is unquestionable far removed, though standing nearer to other 

 members of Zonophaps, such as finscki of New Ireland ; but the peculiar cut of 

 the first three primaries (see description) seems to be shared by no other Pigeon, 

 and it might be best to place it in a subgenus for itself. Among Celebesian 

 Pigeons it most resembles Ptilopus gularis, which is distinguishable by its maroon 

 gular stripe, yellow bill, absence of grey tail-band, etc. A near relative of 

 C. radiata has recently been discovered in Mindoro by Mr. Whitehead, 

 C. mindorensis Grant. This is a species of very large size, but in coloration 

 like C. radiata. The under tail-coverts, however, are grey, and there is a greyish 

 black patch surrounding the eye and ear-coverts (Grant 12). 



^* 270. CARPOPHAGA FORSTENI (Bp.). 



Green-and-white Imperial Pigeon. 



a. Columba forsteri (errore), (I) Prev. & Knip (nee Wagl), Pig. U, 1838—43, pi. 47 (ex 



Temm. MS.). 



b. Carpophaga forsteri (1) Gray, Gen. B. U, 469, Nr. 17 (1844). 



