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624 Birds of Celebes: Treronidae. 



c. Carpophaga albigularis (1) Gray (nee Temm., nee Bp.) — fide Bp., Compt. Rend. XXXTX ^ 



1854, 1077. 



d. Hemiphaga forsteni (1) Bp., Consp. H, 1854, 39; (2) id., C. R. XXXTX, 1854, 1077; 



(3) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, Vm, 84; (4) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. Vn, 1875, 

 672; (5) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 58, 137; (6) Platen, Gefied. Welt 1887, 218; (7) 

 P.&F. Sarasin, Z. Erdk. Berlin 1895, XXX, 328. 

 Carpophaga forsteni (1) Gray, List B. Br. Mus., Oolumbae, 1856, 22; (2) Sehl., Handl. 

 Dierk. 1857, 409; (3) Wall., Ibis 1860, 141; (4) id., Ibis 1865, 387, 398; (5) id., 

 Malay Archip. 1869, I, 431; (6) Scbl., Mus. P.-B., Oolumbae, 1873, 93; (7) Rosenb., 

 Malay. Arehip. 1878, 275; (8) Salvad., Cat. B. XXI, 1893, 208; (9) M. & Wg., 

 Abb. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Nr. 8, p. 15; (10) iid., ib. 1896, Nr. 1, p. 14; (11) Hart., 

 Nov. Zool. 1896, 163. 



e. Zonoenas forsteni (I) Rchb., Tauben 1862, 113, 204, t. V, f. 61. 



"Tutup", Minabassa, v. Rosenb. 5, or "Tootoop", Nat. Coll., or "Tuptup", Meyer d 5. 



For further references cf. Salvadori 8. 



Figures and descriptions. Knip a I\ Reicbenbaeh e /; Bonaparte d 1\ Salvadori 8. 



Adult. Head grey, wbitisb on forebead and malar region; ebin and upper tbroat white; 

 jugulum, breast, neek and upper parts dark parrot^green, with a golden gloss; 

 hind neek inclining to dark red in plaees (in this speeimen); mantle and inter- 

 scapulary region greyish purple, redder on the shoulders; quills above dusky, 

 the exposed surfaces metallic green; tail above green like the wings, crossed by a 

 broad (3 cm) band of dark grey about '/.i from the end; tail below black, the band 

 white; abdomen white; under tail-coverts dark cinnamon-rufous (almost chestnut); 

 sides of body and under wing-coverts slaty green; quills below dusky: "bill 

 black; orbits and feet deep red; iris orange -yellow" — Wallace 4 (Minahassa, . 

 V. Musschenbr. — Nr. 13374). 



Sexes. The sexes are similar (Salvad. d 4, 8). 



Observations. Fine prismatic hues of purple and Ught blue are displayed by tliis Pigeon on 

 the mantle and inters capulary region, quills, and the green parts of the tail, when 

 seen in the proper light. The green contour-feathers do not show the reflections, 

 but, on making their bases visible, the same tints are reflected from the basal parts. 

 As in so many Pigeons, the first primaries are of abnormal shape, the first 

 quill being considerably scalloped out on the inner web and then broadened again 

 towards the end; the second quill and, to a slight extent, the tliird are modified in 

 a corresponding manner. 



Measurements. Wing 255 — 267 mm; tail c. 170; tarsus c. 33; bill from first feathers 21.5 — 24. 



Distribution. Celebes — Minahassa: Tondano (Forst. 6, Wall. 5, S, Nat. Coll.), Kakas 

 (Meyer d 5), Rurukan (Platen d 6, P. & F. Sarasin 5); Central Celebes, Takalekadjo 

 Mts. (iid. d 7, 10); South Celebes, Bonthain Peak (Everett 11). 



Forsten's Carpophaga is the largest Pigeon of the mainland of Celebes, and 

 its peculiar plumage, wrapping it up, as it were, to the nape in a robe of dark 

 golden green, leaving the head grey and belly white, makes it a striking species. 

 Till recently it had been recorded only from the Minahassa, and even there it 

 is rather scarce, and seems to be confined to the hills. Probably all the spe- 

 cimens labelled Manado were obtained on the hills nearer or further from the 

 town. Dr. Platen, who met with a flock at Rurukan, speaks of its cry as 

 Carpophac/a-\ike , hollow, groaning, like strokes on a drum, as is also observed 



