Birds of Celebes: Treronidae. Q^[ 



1882, n, 2. Abth. p. 35, sep. copy) ascertained to be Psittacojuhin , and which 

 soon fades in this Cockatoo also when the bird is stutfed and exposed to the 

 light. As both are fruit-eating birds it would not be surprising if the pigment 

 proved to be the same in both. We are not aware that it has been investigated 

 in the Pigeon. 



^* 273. MYRISTICIVORA LUCTUOSA (Temm.). 

 Mainland Nutmeg Pigeon. 



a. Columba luctuosa ^/j Temm., PL Col. 247 (1825); (2) Less., Man. d'Orn. 1828, IT, 163; 



(III) Prev. & Knip, Pig. H, 1838—43, pi. 40. 



b. Carpophaga luctuosa (1) Selby, Natiir. Libr., Pig. 1835, 119; (2) Schl., Handl. Dierk. 



1857, 410; (3) Wall, P. Z. S. 1862, 335, 344; (4) id.. Ibis 1865, 386, 398; (5) 

 Schl., Ned. Tdschi-. Dierk. m, 1866, 203, 343; (6) Wall., Malay Archip. 1869, 1, 

 337; (7) Schl., Mus. P.-B., Columbae, 1873, 102; (8) Briiggem., Abh. Ver. Bremen 

 1876, V, 85; (9) Rosenb., Malay. Archip. 1878, 275. 



Myristicivora luctuosa (1) Rchb., Syst. Av. Natur. 1852, p. XXVI; (11) id., Tauben 1862, 

 116, pt., t. 229, fig. 1277 (nee 1276); (3) Wald., Tr. Z. S. VTH, 1872, 84; (4) 

 Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. IX, 1877, 265 and fob; (5) id., P. Z. S. 1878, 89; 

 (6) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 136; ('?; Salvad., Orn. Pap. EH, 1882, 111; (8) W. Bias., 

 P. Z. S. 1882, 710; (9) id., J. f. O. 1S83, 129, 139; (10) Joest, Das Holontalo 1883, 

 106; (11) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 557; (12) W. Bias., Ztschr. ges. Orn. 1886, 132; 

 (13) Hickson, Nat. in N. Celebes 1889, 93, pt. (Talissi); (14) Heine & Ecbnw., 

 Nomencl. Mus. Hein. 1890, 281 (Sulu!); (XIV'''^) Meyer, Abb. v. Vogelskel. H, 1892, 

 51, pi. CLXXVI; (15) Salvad., Cat. B. XXI, 1893, 234; (16) Biittik., Zool. Erg. 

 Weber's Reise Ost-Ind. 1893, IH, 281; ^i7J P.& F. Sarasin, Ztsclir. Erdk. Berbn 

 1894, XXIX, 361; (18) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Nr. 8, p. 15, (19) iid., 

 ib. 1896, Nr. 2, p. 20; (20) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1897, 165. 



"Putia", Gorontalo, Joest 10. 



"Putieja" [Gorontalo] v. Rosenb. b 8. 



"Kum-kum puti besar" or •Kum-kum pulo", Malay, Minahassa'), Nat. Coll. 



"Putijen togo togo" or "Putijen laker laker", Minabassa'), iid. 



"Kum-kum puti" (= White Carpophaga), islands off the Minabassa'), iid. 



"Putean", East Celebes, iid. 



"Teon" or "Utejon", Peling, Banggai, iid. 



For further references cf. Salvadori 15. 



Figures and descriptions. Temminck a I\ Knip a III; Reichenbach II; Schlegel 5, 7; 

 Salvadori 4, 15. 



Diagnosis. Similar to M. bicolor, but the innermost secondaries slate-grey like the other 

 remiges, all densely powdered with mealy grey; many feathers on flanks and 

 crissum slaty black terminally; outermost tail-feathers white, only a narrow 

 space of black bordering part of the outer web, sometimes narrowly tipped with black ; 

 tip of bill yellow; average size larger than bicolor (rf, Kema, 29. Aug. 1893: P. & 

 F. Sarasin, and others. 



Iris black (Wall, b 4) or dark brown (Guillem. 11); bill lead-blue or bluish 

 green, yellow or horny yellow at the tip ; feet lead-blue or bluish green (b 4, 11). 



') These names are also g;iven by our uative collectors for 31. bicolor. 



