Birds of Celebes: Pei-isteridae. 655 



d. Goura tristigmata (I) Schl., De Dierent. 1864, fig., p. 40. 



Phlogoenas tristigmata (1) Wald., Tr. Z. S. Vm, 1872, 85, pt. (Manado); (2) Platen, Ge- 

 fied. Welt 18S7, 230. 



e. Phlogoenas tristigma (1) Salvad., Cat. B. XXI, 1893, 590. 

 For further references cf. Salvadori e 1. 



Figures and descriptions. "Wallace c IV\ Schlegel d I; Bonaparte b 1, c 1; Salvadori e 1. 



Adult male. Sinciput bright ochre-yellow; hind head and occiput bluish grey, glossed 

 with golden-green; round hind neck, extending to midway on sides of neck 

 a band of prune-purple about 10 mm broad; mantle and shoulders bluish gi'ey. 

 glossed mth green; rest of back, scapulars, upper tail-coverts and middle 

 tail-feathers dark browai glossed with greenish, washed on the wing-coverts and 

 scapulars with chestnut; primaries greyish dusky; outermost tail-feathers grepsh 

 blue, becoming washed with green on the inner tail-feathers, increasing towards 

 the middle ones, a broad indistinct dusky band about 25 mm from the end: chin 

 and throat wliitish; sides of face and neck pale bluish grey, touched on the ear- 

 coverts mth cinnamon; chest bluish grey, washed with ochraceous; sides, flanks, 

 thighs, sides of rump and of upper tail-coverts dark wood-brown, tinged with 

 greenish; lower breast ochre-yellow, bases of the feathers white fthe yellow looking 

 as though laid on with a brush); abdomen and most of the under tail-coverts 

 white; under wing-coverts brown, white and fulvous: "iris brown; bill grey-brown; 

 feet cherry red" — Platen. Wing 182 mm; tail c. 138; bill from feathers of fore- 

 head 20, fi-om nostril 9; tarsus 45 (rf ad., Rurukan, 11. Jan. 85: Platen in 

 Nehrkorn Coll., Nr. 906). This specimen closely resembles the plate in the Ibis 



1865, pi. rx. 



A second specimen f(;f ad., Minahassa, 6. Nov. 86: Platen in Coll. v. Ber- 

 lepschj differs fi'om the above in haviug mantle and shoulders pm-pKsh grey glossed 

 somewhat wth golden-green in certain lights; primaries dusky brown; tail-feathers, 

 except the four middle ones, blackish, paling into greyish towards the base, and 

 broadly-tipped with light slate-grey; chest grey, glossed with green. Wing 176 mm 

 tail c. 130; tarsus 44; bill 20. 



Young. The gi-eater wing- coverts and inner remiges of a russet tint with cinnamon-rufous 

 tips; a broad space of orange-cinnamon from the throat to the white abdomen 

 breaking through the gi'ey of the chest (Gorontalo: Riedel — Nr. 1754). 



Distribution. North Celebes: Minahassa — Tondano (Forsten c 5), Likupang (Wallace 

 b 2, c 3, el); Riu-ukan (Platen 2, in Nehrkorn Coll. and elsewhere); Gorontalo 

 Distr. (Riedel in Dresden Mus.). 



This Ground -pigeon is a very rare bird in North Celebes. A single spe- 

 cimen, the type in the I.eyden Museum, was obtained by Forsten, and only 

 one also by Mr. Wallace, who remarks that it feeds on the ground and inhabits 

 the drier forests. Dr. Riedel sent a couple of immature specimens to the 

 Dresden Museum from Gorontalo, 1875, and Dr. Platen alone seems to have 

 obtained anything like a series. The latter had two specimens in captivity during 

 his stay at Rurukan; these were at first extremely wild and refused the grain- 

 food offered to them, but were tempted by earth-worms and soon became tame 

 and accustomed themselves to grain. 



In South Celebes the plum-purple nuchal collar is divided by the bronze 

 green of the head and nape, so that a spot is formed on each side of the neck 



