366 A NATURALIST'S WANBERINQS 



once distinguishable by the absence of purple on the back; the head is 

 purple ; and it is known as C. purpureiceps. [H. 0. F.] 



47. Caloenis crassa, Sclater. 



Obscure cineracea-viridis nitore clialybeo ; subtus, prcecipue in ventre, pauIo 

 magis cineracea ; alis caudaque nigris extus dorsi colore lavatis ; remigum 

 margimhus interioribus fuliginosis ; rostro et pedibus nigris ; cauda 

 fere cequali aut paulum, rotundata: long, tota 7"3, aZce 4"1, caudcB 2'8. 

 Fern. Supra cineracea, striis scaparum nigris variegata ; alis caudaque 

 fusco nigris ; subtus alba nigra flamnmlata ; crassitie fere eadem. 

 Ilab. Larat, ins. Tenimbereneem. 



06s. Species cauda fere sequali, oorpore crasso, rostro robusto ct colore 

 maris uniformi notabilis. 



Both male (August 1st) and female (August 8th) are marked " Irides 

 dark brown ; bill, legs, and feet black." 



48. CoKvus LATiEOSTBis, Msycr, op. sup. cit. 



Coruas validissimus, Sclater, loc. cit. 



49. EnBTTSTOMUs PACiFicus, Lath, fide Meyer, op. sup. cit. 



50. Cai'rimulgus macrdkus. Horsf. 



51. HiRUUDO JAVANICA, Sparrm. 



V. CoLUMBiE. 



52. Ptilopus wAllacii, Gr. 



53. D. LETTiBNsis, Schl. fide Meyer. 



54. P. XANTHOGASTER, Wagl. 



p. flavooirescens, Meyer, op. sup. cit. 



The designation Ptilopus fiavovirescens has been proposed by Dr. Meyer 

 for the Timor-laut Pigeon determined by Dr. Sclater as /'. xanthogaster 

 (Wagl.). The difference lies, he notes, in the " Gelbgriinlichgraue " of the 

 head and neck. From a careful comparison of my own skins with those 

 in the British Museum, I feel confident that the differences observed by 

 Dr. Meyer will be found to be those due to age only. Very young birds 

 have a grey band over the forehead, and the rest of the head with the 

 neck and back nearly of the fame shade of green ; with advancing age we 

 find every shade of green and yellowish-green to Dr. Meyer's " Gelbgriin- 

 lichgraue." The head of the fully adult bird is purplish- grey, each 

 feather having a pale yellow submarginal crescent across it. 



Some of the skins obtained by me differ as to head and neck in no 

 respect from specimens brought by Mr. Wallace from Banda ; others have 

 the head and neck of a grey colour tinctured with every shade through 

 green-blue to yellow, differing according to the age of the birds. I cannot 

 detect in the specimens I have, any difference in breadth of the " Golb der 

 Kehle " as compared with Mr. Wallace's specimens ; nor is the breast shield 

 constantly of one shade in all the specimens I have examined. In the 

 Banda example (of W^allace) it is darker than any Timor-laut specimen 

 before me. In agreement with all those in the British Miisenm, my 

 Timor-laut specimens have the outer margin of the primaries and 

 secondaries as in Salvadori's description, " flavo-marginatis." [H. 0. F.] 



55. C.iEPOPHAGA COSCINNA, Wa'l. 



56. C. ROSACEA, Temm. 



57. Mtristicivora bicoloe, Scop. 



58. Macropygia timorlaoensis, Meyer, op. sup. cit. 



Macropygia keiensis, Salv. 



Macropygia sp. inc., Sclater, P. Z. S. 1883, los. sup. cit. 



