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but strongly tinged with buff. Ail the spécimens in the Leyden Muséum from N. W. New 

 Guinea (Arfak, Sorong), from Waigéu and from Gemien hâve the forehead pure white, the 

 pileum also white or very faintly tinged with buff; only a young maie from Waigéu has the 

 pileum pale cinnamon. AH the spécimens from the Aru Islands in that collection hâve the 

 purplish vinous-brown of the hind neck conspicuously darker and also the underparts a 

 little darker, so they seem to form a distinct subspecies, H. a. schlegeli von Rosenberg, 

 as already supposed by Messrs. ROTHSCHILD and HARTERT. The pileum is also tinged with 

 buff in the greater part of them. 



Chalcophaps stepJiani Reichenbach. 



Chalcophaps stephani Reichenbach, Handb. spec. Orn. Columbariae, 185 1, p. 47, pi. 259, f. 2595. — 

 Salvadori, Orn. Pap. III, 1S82, p. 178. — Id. Cat. B. Br. M. XXI, 1893, p. 520. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 405, çf, Alkmaar, 17 August 1907. Iris brown, bill red, feet carminé. 



Macropygia amboinensis cinereiceps Tristram. 



Macropygia cinereiceps Tristram, Ibis, 1889, p. 558. — Salvadori, Agg. Orn. Pap. III, 1891, 



p. 188. — Id. Cat. B. Br. M. XXI, 1893, p. 357. 

 Macropygia amboitunsis cinereiceps Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. VIII, 1901, p. 125. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. i33i cf J uv -> Noord River, 24 May 1907. Iris bluish white, bill dark brown, feet dark violet 



N°. 231, çf ad., Van Weel's kamp, 12 June 1907. Iris bluish white, bill black, feet carminé. 



N°. 233, Ç, Noord River, 14 June 1907. Iris orange, bill black, feet dark red. 



N°- 315, Ç, Sabang, 6 July 1907. Iris orange, bill dark brown, feet carminé. 



N°. 368, Q, Alkmaar, 23 July 1907. Iris blue with orange ring, bill brown, feet carminé. 



In the adult maie, n° 231, crown and hind neck are cinereous ; forehead buff. Spécimens 

 from the Fly River belong, according to Count Salvadori to the subspecies doreya of 

 Bonaparte, but in the three maies mentioned by him (Orn. Pap. III, 1882, p. 143), the 

 colour of the crown and hind neck is differing from that of doreya, being conspicuously cine- 

 reous or cinereo-vinaceous. In the young maie and the three females collected by Mr. LORENTZ 

 the head is chestnut-brown, more reddish chestnut in the young maie. I hâve little doubt 

 that our five spécimens belong to the same form as the birds from the Fly River. According 

 to Messrs. ROTHSCHILD and HARTERT Macropygia goldiei Salvadori is a synonym of M. a. 

 cinereiceps, the maie type-specimens being immature birds. In the Leyden Muséum is 

 only one spécimen of M. a. cinereiceps from Fergusson Island and this is a very young 

 bird. M. a. cinereiceps is very much like M. a. maforensis, which has a darker vinous-brown 

 breast and in which the white of the forehead is extended more backward. 



The wings of the LORENTZ-specimens measure: 160, 165, 165, 165, 160 mm. 



Macropygia amboinensis doreya G. R. Gray. 



Macropygia doreya Bonaparte, Consp. Av. II, 1854, p. 57. — Salvadori, Orn. Pap. III, 18S2, 

 p. 140. — Id. Cat. B. Br. M. XXI, 1893, p. 355. 



