466 



Poonai Jamboo, Sumatra (Marsden ; Raffles). 

 Poonai Gading, Malays (Eyton ; Cantor). 

 From Pinang and Malacca. 



Adult male. Head deep crimson, this colour extending from the 

 front to the middle of the crown, behind the eyes, and across the ear- 

 coverts to lower part of the throat ; a cinnamon-black stripe down 

 the throat ; hind part of the head, nape, and whole upper parts dark 

 green, but with a buffy caste of plumage ; primaries black, their 

 outer webs dark greenish ; secondaries and tips of primaries nar- 

 rowly margined exteriorly with buffy-white ; tail green, exterior 

 feathers with the inner webs black, the whole with a broad pale ter- 

 minal band ; hind part of ear-coverts, sides, and front of neck pure 

 white, passing to buffy-white along the sides of the breast and whole 

 of abdomen, the middle of the breast being of a beautiful suffused- 

 pink colour ; flanks and axillaries greyish-green ; under tail-coverts 

 deep cinnamon. 



Female. Wholly green, with the crimson of the head and gular 

 stripe very dull and pale ; abdomen mingled green and buff ; under 

 tail-coverts paler. 



Young male. Head and sides of throat greyish-green, gular stripe 

 dark cinnamon ; breast mingled green and pink ; abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts buff-white. 



A still younger specimen is like the female, but has no trace of 

 crimson about the head ; the throat being pale cinnamon-brown. 



Length of adult about 9 inches ; of wing 5^ ; tail 3^ inches. 



197. Carpophaga sylvatica. 



Columba sylvatica, Tickell, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. ii. p. 581 (1833). 



Carpophaga sylvatica, Blyth, Journ. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 856 ; 

 Ann. N. H. xix. p. 52; Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 33 ; G. R. Gray, List 

 of Columb. Brit. Mus. p. 17. 



Carpophaga cenea of India, Auctorum. 



Pinang. 



" Iris and tarsus palpebrarum and feet crimson ; bill pale crimson, 

 apex light grey." 



198. Myristicivora bicolor. 



Columba bicolor, Scop. Del. Flor. et Faun. Ins. p. 94 (1786); Sonn. 

 Voy. t. 103. 



Myristicivora bicolor, Reichenbach, Bonap. C. G. Av. ii. p. 36. 



Carpophaga myristicivora (Scop.), G. R. Gray. 



Columba alba, Gmelin. 



Columba litoralis, Temm. Pig. t. 7. 



"Iris blackish-brown. Tarsus palpebrarum cobalt. Bill cobalt, 

 apex of mandibles black. Feet cobalt/' 

 Province of Wellesley. 



199. Geopelia striata. 



Columba striata, Linn. S. N. i. p. 282 (1767) ; Edw. Birds, pi. 16. 

 Columba malaccensis, Gmelin. 



