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ON NEW-GUINEA BIRDS. 



CoLTJMBlDAE. 



Carpophaga pinon rubiensis A. B. Meyer. 



Carpopliaga rubiensis, Salvadori, Cat. B. Br. M. XXI, 1893, 

 p. 223. 



Carpophaga pinon rubiensis, Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. 

 YIII, 1901, p. 114. 



One specimen. Kaukas. Coll. van Cloven. — This specimen 

 has the upper and under wingcoverts distinctly edged with 

 greyish. The distribution of rubiensis is not clear to me ; 

 possibly it may not have a subspecifical rank. The type- 

 specimen of Columba pinon Quoy & Gaimard was shot 

 on Rawak, a small island north of Waigeoe. In the des- 

 cription the authors say nothing as to greyish edgings 

 to the wingcoverts, but on the plate the wingcoverts 

 have less distinct edgings (Voyage autour du monde, Zoölogie, 

 1824, p. 118, pi. 28). We have no specimen from Rawak, 

 but four specimens from W aigeoe, which have no distinct 

 edgings to the upper wingcoverts. From Salawatti we have 

 two specimens, one of them having a faint indication of 

 edgings to the upper and also to the under wingcoverts. 

 Among seven specimens from the Aroe Islands two have 

 also the upper wingcoverts faintly edged with greyish. 

 Three specimens from northwestern New Guinea (Amberbaki, 

 Dorei, Andai) have upper and under wingcoverts very 

 faintly edged with grey; the same is the case in two 

 specimens from Sorong, one from Skroe and two from the 

 Triton Bay. Nine specimens collected by Mr. H. A. Lorentz 

 along the Noord River, southern New Guinea, are without 

 light edgings to the wingcoverts, while two specimens 

 collected by Dr. J. W. R. Koch at the Etna Bay are true 

 rubiensis, having very distinct light greyish edgings to 

 upper and under wingcoverts. According to Rothschild 

 and Hartert both pinon and rubiensis occur also in eastern 

 New Guinea. 



Notes from the Ley den Museum, "Vol. XXX» 



