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by the Sarasins. This is a very distinct species, the only known form with 



which it has near affinities being C.poUocephala of the .Southern Philippines, a 



smaller bird, with a rufous-chestnut throat and vinous-white breast (Salvad. 8). 



Count Salvador i makes it the type of his Carpophagine subgenus Zomphaps 



including therein , besides C. radiata, four species from Papuasia and the Mo- 

 luccas, which, however, can claim no very near relationship with the Cele- 

 besian bird. 



+ * 271. CARPOPHAGA POECILORRHOA Briigg. 



Long-tailed Imperial Pigeon. 



Carpophaga poecilorrhoa (1) Briiggem., Abb. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 84; (2) SalvacL, Oat. 

 B. XXI, 1893, 220; (3) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresd. 1895, m-.S, p. 15; fIV) Meyer, 

 Vogelskel. 1897, n, pi. CCXXX. 



a. Gymnophaps poecilorrhoa (I) Pelz., Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wieu 1876, XXVI, 720, pi. XDI; 



(II) Gld., B. New Guinea V, pi. 60 (1880); (3j Meyer, Ibis 1881, 169; (4) W. Bias., 

 J. f. 0. 1883, 142; (5) Heine & Bcbw., Nomencl. Mus. Hein. 1890, 282. 



b. Carpophaga (Ducula) sp. (1) Lenz, J. f. O. 1877, 378. 



Figures and descriptions. Meyer IF (skel.); Gould all; Pelzeln a I; Briiggemann 1; 

 Lenz b 1; Salvadori 2. 



Adult. Head, ueck, breast and upper abdomen grey, paler on forehead and cliin, bro\vner 

 on bind head and neck, slaty on lower hind neck, tinged with vinaceous on breast 

 and jugulum, the feathers of the lower breast and upper abdomen terminally bordered 

 with cinnamon; entire back, upper tail-coverts and wings dark bronze-brown, 

 glossed \vith green; tail black, tipped with whitish; sides, flanks and crissum dark 

 brown, the feathers terminally fringed with cinnamon; under tail-coverts dark brown, 

 broadly fi'inged on both webs with bght cinnamon; under wing-coverts dark bronze 

 with a greenish gloss; quills below dusky browia: "ii'is blood-red; bill-base violet- 

 red, tip grey-green; feet and naked periocular ring cherry-red" — Platen in Nehrk. 

 Coll. (cT, Tomohon, 6. IV. 94: P.&F. Sarasin). 



Female. Like the male. — "Feet cherry-red; base of bill red" (2, Rui-ukan, 18. HI. 94: 

 P.&F. Sarasin). 



Immature. Ldie the adult, but the cinnamon terminal edgings on the under surface extending 

 up to the chest, the quills and greater wing- coverts edged and tipped with dark 

 cinnamon, the middle wing-coverts tipped with the same colour, the liind neck darker 

 and browner, merging imperceptibly into the colour- of the back. Wing 227 mm; 

 tail 185 (Lotta, Minahassa, 21. VI. 93: Nat. Coll. — C 12110). 



Measurements (4 adults). Wing 232—245 nun; tail 195—210; tarsus c. 28; bill from first feathers 

 20.5 — 22.5. For the loan of one of these specimens (Rvu-ukan: Platen) we are in- 

 debted to Mr. Nehrkorn. We have also been able to examine another of Platen's 

 specimens, a female kindly lent to us by Count Berlepsch. 

 Distribution. Celebes: — Minahassa (Fischer 1, v. Musschenbr. a 3), Eurukan (Platen, 

 P.&F. Sarasin), Tomohon (iid.), Lotta (Nat. Coll.). 



This remarkable Pigeon, the only member of Salvadori's Carpophagine 

 subgenus Cryptophaps, is at present known only from the mountains of the 

 Minahassa. As to its affinities Count Salvadori remarks: it "does not seem to 



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