816 Note to the Catalogue of the Birds [Aug. 



in fact an Edolius without the racket tail, its tail quite resembling that 

 of B. macrocercus. 



No. 1248. Hypsipetes concolor, nobis. Resembles H. psa- 

 roides and H. nilgiriensis ; but is altogether blacker, the black of the 

 crown forming thus no contrast with that of the rest of the upper-parts : 

 lower-parts and rump dusky-cinereous, and slight edgings of the same 

 to the alars and caudals : upper tail-coverts black. 



Inhabits the Tenasserim provinces. 



No. 1397. Ptilinopus ? A beautiful species from the Navi- 

 gators' Islands. Predominant hue of the male a pale canary-yellow, 

 or yellowish-white (that of a Mealy Canary) with a broad band of deep 

 lake-red crossing the back and shoulders of the wings ; cap of the same 

 lake-red, also the lower tail-coverts, and the medial portion of the pec- 

 toral feathers, which last have forked or divergent broad white tips : 

 below, the breast is tinged with orpiment-yellow ; and the lower portion 

 of the back and edges of the tertiaries are bright yellowish-green : 

 outer webs and tips of the secondaries and primaries deep green, the 

 secondaries having a very narrow white margin : wing-coverts, tertiaries, 

 and tail greyish-white, more or less margined with the yellowish-green 

 hue of the lower back. Wing 5 in. ; tail 3 in. In the female the 

 predominant hue is deep green, a little bronzed on the wings ; the ter- 

 tiaries are slightly edged with yellow ; the vent is yellow ; crown and 

 lower tail-coverts as in the male, lake-red, but the latter mingled with 

 the yellow of the vent ; the sides and back of the neck are tinged 

 greyish, with an obscure dull fulvescent band in place of the bright red 

 dorsal band of the male ; and the breast is green, with white tips to the 

 feathers. Outermost primary sinuated as usual in this genus. 



No. 1400. Carpophaga ianthina? Columba ianthina (?), Tem- 

 minck. A typical species, with the base of the upper mandible tumid. 

 Head, neck and breast uniform pale and slightly vinaceous grey, with a 

 slight white ring surrounding the base of the bill ; abdominal region 

 pale dull vinaceous, passing to deep ferruginous on the lower tail- 

 coverts : rest of the upper-parts deep emerald green mingled with 

 steel-blue, which last predominates on the primaries and tail. Wing 

 10 in. ; tail 6^ in. Received from Java. 



No. 1402. C. pusilla, nobis. Like C. sylvatica (vel cenea of 

 India), but much smaller, and the nape very rufescent. Length of wing 

 8} in. ; of tail 5£ in. Nilgiris. 



