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is no evidence that it was transferred to the British Museum when 

 the collection belonging to the Zoological Society was dispersed. 



There is an example in the St. Petersburg Museum^ which was 

 obtained by Kittlitz on the- Bonin Islands, and which has recently 

 been described in detail (Stejneger, Proc. United States Nat. Mus. 

 1887, p. 421) ; and there is a second example in the Senckenberg 

 Museum in Frankfort from the same source. The latter is a large 

 bird (wing from carpal joint 11 inches), and differs conspicuously 

 from its Japanese ally in being much paler in colour. It has also a 

 yellower bill and a much paler throat. The St. Petersburg skin is 

 10-1 in length of wing, and Vigors gives 10 inches. Mr. Hoist 

 obtained for me a male from Nakondo-Shima, one of the Parry 

 Islands (Seebohm, Ibis, 1890, p. 103). It measures 10 inches in 

 length of wing, and is much larger and paler than its Japanese ally. 

 The bronze on the wing-coverts is green in all positions, and the 

 ground-colour of the underparts is lavender instead of dark bluish 

 grey. 



149. CARPOPHAGA JOUYI. 

 (LOO-CHOO FRUIT-PIGEON.) 



lanthanas jouyi, Stejneger, American Naturalist, 1887, p. 583. 



The Loo-Choo Fruit-Pigeon is larger than its Japanese ally (wing 

 from carpal joint 10;^ to 9f inches). It principally differs in having 

 a white crescent across the upper back. 



The Loo-Choo Fruit-Pigeon was described by Dr. Stejneger from 

 an example obtained by Mr. C. Tasaki on one of the islands whose 

 name it bears. There are two examples in the Pryer collection, 

 obtained from the central group of the Loo-Choo Islands, most 

 probably by the same collector (Seebohm, Ibis, 1887, p. 179). 



This fine and remarkably distinct species is doubtless a resident on 

 the Loo-Choo Islands, whilst the Japanese Fruit-Pigeon {Carpophaga 

 ianthina), which also occurs on this group, may prove to be only a 

 winter visitor. 



These three Fruit-Pigeons have close allies on the Philippine 

 Islands, as well as on some of the islands in the Malay Archipelago, 

 and must be regarded as of Tropical origin. 



