g50 Birds of Celebes: Peristerirlae. 



Supposed local race of Great Sangi. 



g. Chalcophaps indica var. sanghirensis (Ij W. Bias., Onus 1888, 623. 

 h. Chalcophaps sanghirensis (1) Salvad., Cat. B. XXI, 1893, 513. 



"Momboi tana", "Pombo tana", Miiiahassa, Nat. Coll. 



"Kolohono", Tagulaudang, Euang, and Siao, "Kohono", Great Sangi, iid. 



"Limukon", Tonkean, E. Celebes, iid. 



"Sebot", Peling, iid. 



For further synonymy and references cf. Salvadori 58, and for Great Sangi, W. Blasius^ 1. 



Figures and descriptions. Rowley XX/; Hayes b U; Eeichenbach VI, e 11; Bonaparte 

 5, el; Jerdon dl; David & Oustalet 22; Legge 29; Salvadori 32, 58; 

 Vorderman 34; Gates 35. 



Adult male. Forehead and a broad superciliary stripe greyish wliite, changing on 

 occiput and nape to bluish lead-colour ; sides of head and under-parts brownish 

 wine-purple, greyer on the abdomen, paler on the chin; hind neck, mantle and 

 lesser wing-coverts darker brownish vinaceous, the feathers margined with pui'pKsh 

 lead-colour, the lesser wing-coverts broadly tipped with greyish white, forming a Imr; 

 the other wing-coverts, back and inner remiges golden-green, upper back with 

 leaden margins, the remaining remiges and winglet dark brown; the lower back 

 chocolate, glossed with bronze, and crossed with two bands of bluish grey; feathers 

 of rump, and ujjper tail-coverts blackish, with bluish grey bars; under tail- 

 coverts slaty, the longer ones and tail dusky black, the 3 or 4 lateral pairs of 

 tail-feathers grey at the base and terminal margin; under wing-coverts and remiges 

 below where they rest upon the body dark cinnamon-rufous, the rest of the remiges 

 dusky In-own; "iris blackish brown; feet cherry-red; claws light grey; bill fiery red" — 

 Meyer 28 ([cT] near Manado, Aug.— Sept. 1892: Nat. Coll. — 10934). 



Female. Differs from the male in having the head above vinaceous rufous brown hke the 

 neck and breast; the four middle tail-feathers brown, the next two pau'S more or less 

 cinnamon-rufous and blackish, the outer pairs as in the male; the greyish wliite bar 

 on the ulnar coverts hardly indicated (near Manado, Aug. — Sept. 1892: Nat. Coll. 

 — C 10935). 



Young. 3faeropygia-]ike; dusky brown above, the lesser wing-coverts and scapulars mostly 

 golden-green, the greater and middle wing-coverts tipped with cinnamon-rufous forming 

 two bars; tail much as in the female; imder-parts barred with cinnamon and dusky 

 (juv. Lotta, Minahassa, 25. V. 93: Nat. Coll. — C 12134). 



Measurements. Wing (adults Celebes) 142 — 152 mm, (adults Tagulandang, Euang and Siao) 

 149 — 161, (Great Sangi) 142 — 152; tail ca. 90; tarsus 27; culmen from nasofrontal 

 suture ca. 21. 



Eggs. Cream-colour, 27 X 20 mm (Bengal — Nehrkorn MS.). Two m number; cream- 

 white to white with a decided, though very pale, c af e- an -1 ait tinge; oval, sometimes 

 rather pointed; shell fine and fauiy glossy (Hume 51). 



Nest. Of roots, grass and twigs; saucer-shaped; usually built low down in a dense bush or 

 tree in forest or jungle (Hume 51). 



Distribution. Himalayas west as far as Cashmere; south and east to Hainan and Formosa, 

 Ceylon, the Andamans and Nicobars, through the Malay Peninsula and East India 

 Islands as far as West New Guinea. 



For exact recorded localities cf. Salvadori 32, and add: Cambodia 'Mouhot 11); ? South 

 China (De La Touche 56); Nias and Engano fModigl. 40, 57); Billiton (Vorderman 



