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^281. CHALCOPHAPS STEPHANI Rchb. 

 Hazel-backed Dove. 



a. Peristere d'Etienne (I) Hombr. & Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, Atl. 1846, pi. 28, f. 2. 



Chalcophaps stephani (I) Rchb., Coliimbariae, Novit. 1851, t. 259, f. 2595; {2} Jacq. & 

 Pucher., Voy. Pole Sud, Zool. EH, 1853, 119; (3) Bp., Consp. Av. H. 1854, 92 

 (4) "Wall, Ibis 1865, 394; {5) Schl, Ned. Tdschr. Dierk. 1866, m, 265, 267, 345 

 (6) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VrU, 85, 114; (7) Schl, Mus. P.-B., Columbae, 1873 

 151; (8) Briigg., Abh. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 87; {9) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ 

 Gen. 1877, X, 160; (10] id., Om. Pap. ni, 1882, 178, 562; {11) Finsch, Mitth 

 Om. Ver. Wien Vm, 1884, 93; {12) Pleske, Bull. Ac. Petersb. 1884, XH, 133 

 {13} W. Bias., Z. ges. Om. 1886, 137; {U) Salvad., Agg. Om. Pap. 1891, IH, 190 

 {15) id.. Oat. B. 1893, XXI, 521; {16) Meyer, Ibis 1893, 483; {11) M. & Wg. 

 Abh. Mus. Dresd. 1896, Nr. 2, p. 20; {18) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 249, 536; {19) id. 

 ib. 1897, 160, 165. 



h. Chalcophaps homhroni {1) Wall., Ibis 1865, 394. 



c. Chalcophaps wallacei {1) Briiggem., Abh. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 464; {2} W. Bias., 

 J. f. 0. 1883, 114, 122, 139, 162. 



For further synonymy and references cf. Salvadori 15. 



Figures and descriptions. Hombron & Jacquinot a J; Reichenbacli /; Jacquinot & 

 Pucheran 2\ Bonaparte 3; Schlegel 5; Salvadori 10, 15. 



Male adult. A short sinciput white; rest of head, neck and upper mantle glossy 

 magenta-purple on a cinnamon-brown ground; back, lesser wing-coverts, rump, 

 upper tail-coverts and tail chestnut, brighter on the rump; across the lower back 

 two darker bands, with a band of light cinnamon between them; the lateral tail- 

 feathers blackish at the tips and inner webs, the outermost pah' grey, with a broad 

 subterminal area of blackish, base of the outer web cinnamon-hazel ; tail below (when 

 not spread out) blackish; middle and greater wing-coverts and inner remiges 

 glossy golden-green; the other remiges dusky brown; chin, cheeks, throat and 

 jugulum hazel, glossed with purple; remaining under parts, including under side 

 of wing, more cinnamon-rufous, under tail-coverts darker, chestmit: "'iris narrow, 

 dark olive-brown; eyeHds dull red; bill bright yellow; feet blood-red" — Wall. 4 

 {[(f] ad., Gorontalo: Riedel — C 267). 



Female. Similar to the male, but the forehead grey, not white; the rest of the head and 

 liind neck hazel without so much magenta- purple gloss ([Q] ad., Celebes: Riedel, 

 Manado, Mch. 71: Meyer — C 2048). 



Young. "Brown, varied with cinnamon colour; forehead ashy rufous or whitish rufous; feathers 

 of the upper and under parts brown, tipped with rufous-cinnamon; upper tail-coverts 

 and greater wing-coverts almost entirely cinnamon" (Salvad. 15). 



Measurements (4 adults — N. Celebes): Wing 147 — 155 mm; tail 102 — 108; tarsus 26; bill 

 from feathers of forehead 17 — 18. 



Distribution. Celebes: — Gorontalo Distr. (Forsten 7, Rosenb. 7, Riedel 13 and Dresd. 

 Museum); Minahassa: Manado (Wallace 4, 15, Meyer 6 and Dresd. Mus.); South 

 Celebes (Doherty 19); West Celebes (Doherty 19); East Celebes (Nat. Coll. in 

 Dresden and Tring Mus. 17); Ternate (Fischer 12); Waigiou (Wallace 10, 15, 

 Bernstein 7); Batanta (Bruijn, Beccari 10); Salawatti (Bernstein, Hoedt 7); 

 Mysol (Wallace 4, 15, Hoedt 7); Kei (Rosenberg 7, Beccari 10); Aru (Rosen- 

 berg 7, Beccari 10, Riedel, Dresd. Mus.); New Guinea (Hombron & Jacquinot 



