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lower breast and abdomen almost the same colour as the crown and 

 the forehead ; back and wings greenish, feathers being margined 

 brown with bronze reflexions ; quills ashy black ; tail also ashy black ; 

 under tail coverts cinereous brown ; bill plumbeous white ; iris brown ; 

 legs red; total length about 17 inches. The colour of the bill, tail 

 feathers, and the amount of green with bronze reflexions, vary much 

 in different individuals. 



Hab. — Java, Borneo and Sumatra. 



Length or life in captivity. 

 Over three years. 



(122) THE SUPEBB FRUIT PIGEON. 

 (PTILOPU8 SUPEEBUS— Temm.) 



Description, — Total length about 9 inches; head purple, chin and 

 throat delicate ashy white ; nape and sides of the neck orange, washed 

 with rufous ; breast a shy- grey with light purple tinge ; a band of bluish- 

 black stretches across the lower breast ; abdomen white ; upper parts, 

 flanks, and thighs green ; the flanks above the thighs crossed by a 

 white band; shoulders and parts adjacent to it purple; primaries 

 brownish- black ; secondaries green edged with yellow ; the outer tail 

 feathers with a broad white band at the tip ; bill olive green, with 

 yellow tip ; irides yellow ; feet pink. The female is uniformly green 

 above ; throat, greyish- white ; breast, greyish green. 



Sab.— Australia, Ternate, Amboyna. 



Other fruit-pigeons ascribed to this genus, but of which the specific 

 identity has remained undetermined owing to their having arrived 

 young or out of condition, have now and then been exhibited ; none of 

 them, however, have ever done well. 



(123) THE THICK-BILLED GREEN PIGEON. 

 (TEEEON NEPALENSIS-Cfibdy*.) ) 



Description. — Forehead and crown ashy ; the prevailing colour of 

 the rest of the plumage green of different shades and intensity ; back, 

 scapulars, and the greater part of the lesser wing coverts maroon ■ 

 median wing coverts broadly edged with yellow, the outermost ones 

 being tinged with blackish ; greater coverts blackish, edged with yellow ; 

 primaries and their coverts black ; the primary coverts narrowly edged 

 with whitish ; secondaries black, edged with yellow on the outer web 

 the outer tail feathers ashy, with a bar of black across. In the female 

 there is no maroon on the back and scapulars ; bill red at the base 

 yellow on culmen, rest green ; legs bright red ; iris blue. Total length 

 about 9 \ to 10 inches. 



Hab.— South-East Himalayas ; the Indo-Burmese country ; the 

 Malay peninsula ; Sumatra. 



