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brown; the rest of the lower-parts black or blackish slightly glossed; and the fea- 

 thers at the sides of the throat or lower part of the neck are white nearly to their tips, 

 which are broadly terminated with black, and have a silvery spot above this : beak 

 dusky above, the rest whitish; and gular skin apparently has been yellow. Rare in 

 Central India, and occurs in Assam and in the Tenasserim provinces.* 



Ptilinopus purpuratus. It has been suspected that different species are confounded 

 under this name, and certainly the specimen from the Caroline Islands, here noticed, 

 would hardly seem to be identical with that figured by Messrs. Jardine and Selby, 

 III. Orn. pi. LXX. It agrees more with the description in Shaw's 'Zoology,' XI, 67, 

 which I believe is copied from Temminck, who styles it Columba kurukuru; but one 

 marked peculiarity consists in the entire tail being tipped with yellow for three-quarters 

 of an inch, while there is no trace of this colour margining the green portion external- 

 ly. Crown beautiful purplish-lake, with a slight trace of a yellow margin posteriorly ; 

 entire neck, throat, and breast, with the lores and ear-coverts, pale greenish-yellow ; 

 scapularies, interscapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts, a full and tolerably bright 

 green, having a slight cast of aureous ; wings and basal portion of tail much finer 

 green, the tertiaries margined with greenish-aureous, and (excepting the largest one) 

 having an amethystine spot, not very bright, within the margin ; a purplish patch on 

 the fore-part of the belly, the rest of which is greenish inclining to yellow, and the 

 lower tail-coverts are bright yellow. 



P. 465. Gracula religiosa. The species here noticed I take to be the Eulabes 

 Javanus of Cuvier, which is common in the hilly regions of Bengal, and the Society 

 has received it from Nepal and Tenasserim. The Gracula religiosa of Mr. Jerdon's 

 list is what I presume to be the Eu. Indicus, Cuvier. In M. Lesson's Traite d'Orni- 

 thologie, as I am informed by Mr. Jerdon, Mainatus Sumatranus, Lesson = Eulabes 

 Javanus, Cuv., and Gr. religiosa, Latham and Vieillot; whilst M. Javanus, Less.= 

 Eu. Indicus, Cuv., Pastor musicus, Tem., and also Gr. religiosa, Latham. The 

 following are the distinctions of the two species known to me, which I give, as I have 

 seen no satisfactory descriptions of them. 



Gr. religiosa, Lin: Eulabes Javanus (?), Cuvier; not Mainatus Javanus of 

 Lesson, but his M. Sumatranus. Distinguished from the other by its superior size, 

 the much greater thickness of the bill, which is also more deeply cleft, the large 

 space covered with short velvety feathers on the sinciput, above which there is no 

 continuation of the naked skin from the occiput, and by the more brightly glossed 

 and separated feathers of the forehead and middle of the head. Length eleven inches 

 and a half by nineteen inches in alar expanse ; wing six inches and five-eighths, and 

 tail three inches and a quarter. The bill measures an inch and a quarter to forehead 

 through the feathers, and an inch and a half to gape, being above half an inch in 

 vertical depth; tarsi, measured posteriorly, an inch and one-eighth. Irides dark 

 hazel; bill yellow at the tip, the rest bright coral-red; the bare skin of the head 

 and mobile flaps yellow ; and legs orpiment-yellow. 



Gr. Indicus: Eulabes Indicus {?), Cuv.; Pastor musicus, Tem.; Mainatus 



Javanus, Lesson. Closely allied to the last, but smaller, with the bill and legs less 



robust, especially the former, and the patch of velvety feathers on the sinciput greatly 



reduced in size, being bounded above (as well as below) by the naked skin folded 



* Mr. Jerdon writes me word that he has just obtained it at Nellore. 



