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Partridge Bronze-winged Pigeon (Geophaps scripla). 



According to Salvadori, the female only differs from the male in 

 being smaller, but doubtless in the living birds other distinctions 

 might be detected. 



Plumed Ground Dove (Lophophaps plumifera). 



It is possible that all the specimens recorded under this name as 

 having been imported may belong to the following species, as those 

 which reached London in 1904, according to Mr Seth-Smith, 

 certainly did ; the female is slightly smaller than the male. 



White-bellied Ground Dove {Lophophaps leucogaster). 



" The sexes are alike in plumage, the male being perhaps a shade 

 larger than the female. It is about eight inches in length " (Seth- 

 Smith, Avicultural Magazine, N.S., vol v. p. 54). 



Crested Pigeon (Ocyphaps lophotes). 



Female rather smaller than the male, and, if the late Mr 

 Abrahams' statement is correct, differing in its paler irides. My 

 birds proved to be two cocks. 



Mixed Types (Geotrygonince). 



This subfamily includes first some aberrant types related to 

 the Zenaidinai (Turtle Doves of a kind) from the New World ; 

 then a number of more or less terrestrial and bulky birds (some of 

 them vaguely resembling Game birds) from Malaysia, the Moluccas, 

 and Australia; and lastly the strange Blue-headed Pigeon from the 

 West Indies. This collection appears to be hopelessly unnatural. 



Rufous-necked Wood Dove (Haplopelia larvata). 



" The female is slightly duller in colour and smaller in size ' 

 (Stark and Sclater, Birds of South Africa, vol. iv. p. 183). 

 " Greener and less coppery-red on the hind neck " (Salvadori, 

 Catalogue of Birds, vol. xxi. p. 541). Why Messrs Stark and 

 Sclater call this " Lemon Dove " is not clear, as it is neither lemon- 

 coloured nor does it appear to frequent lemon trees. 



For the species of Leptoptila the Museum Catalogue records sexual 

 differences in very few instances, but one can always distinguish the 

 sexes in life by careful observation. 



Red-underwinged Dove {Leptoptila rufaxilla). 



Although Count Salvadori merely says of the female " similar to 

 the male," I have no doubt that her forehead is less white, her 

 general plumage a trifle duller ; and, if she is not smaller, I am sure 

 she is less alert in appearance when alive. 



