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remarking that he does not find that they differ in size, but that “the entire under 
surface is not light grey, but creamy white with only a slight cinereous tinge”. 
It would be well to know whether C. concinna is really a stationary species, 
or like Myristkimra bicolor a seasonal wanderer among these islands, whether 
its colours brighten in the breeding season, or whether it differs on every is- 
land, etc., before commencing to “split” it into subspecies. 
Iruits and seeds were found in the stomachs of specimens obtained by hte 
“Challenger” Expedition at Kei. Wallace remarks that it has “a remarkably 
loud, hoarse, booming note, like the roar of a wild beast”. 
* 264. CAKPOPHAGA PAULINA (Bp.). 
Celebes Imperial Pigeon. 
a. Columba aenea, Q (I) Temm. &Knip, Pig. pi. 4 (1808 — 11). 
b. Ducula paulina (1) Bp., Consp. II, 1854, 35 (ex Temm. MS.); (2) id., Oompt. Kend. 
XXXIX, 1854, 1076; XIj, 1855, 217, Xr. 94; (3) id.. Coup d’Oeil Ordre Pig. 1855, 
16, 55; (IV) Rclib., Tauben I, 1862, 115, 199, t. 230 b., fig. 3360, Novitiae, t. VI, 
fig. 69. 
c. Carpophaga rufinuchalis (1) Oass., Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Pliilad. 1854, 228. 
Carpophaga paulina (1) Bp., Oompt. Kend. XLI, 1855, 247; (2) Wall., P. Z. S. 1862, 335, 
345 (Sula); (3) id.. Ibis 1865, 385, 398; (4) Sclil., Ned. Tdsclir. Dierlc. HI, 1866, 
200; (5) Wald., Tr. Z. S. VEII, 1872, 83; (6) ScbL, Mus. P.-B., Oolumbae, 1873, 
84; (7) Wald., Tr. Z. S. IX, 1875, 215; (8) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 125, 146; (8^'^) 
Legge, B. Ceylon 1880, 719; (9) Oab., J. f. 0. 1882, 125; (10) Guillem., P. Z. S. 
1885, 557; (11) W. Bias., Z. ges. Om. 1885, 306; (1P<^) Guillem., Cruise “Marcliesa” 
1886,11, 186; (12) Hickson, Nat. in N. Celebes 1889, 93; (13) Salvad., Cat, B. XXI, 
1893, 189; (14) P. & E. Sarasin, Z. Erdk. Berlin 1894, 382; (15) Grant, Ibis 
1895, 116; (16) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Nr. 8, p. 15; (17) iid., ib. 1896, 
Nr. 1, p. 14; (18) iid., ib. 1896, Nr. 2, p. 20; (19) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1897, 160, 165. 
d. Carpophaga paulinae (1) Briiggem., Abb. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 84; (2) Pelz, Verb. 
z.-b. Ges. Wien 1876, 719. 
“Kum-kum idiu” (Green Carpophaga), Malay name, Minabassa, Meyer 8\ Nat. Coll. 
“Kur-kur", near Manado, Nat. Coll. 
“Kua-kua”, Tjamba Distr., S. Celebes, Platen 11 . 
“Kuha”, Tonkean, E. Celebes, Nat. Coll. 
“Tokulok”, Balante, E. Celebes, Nat. Coll. 
For further references cf. Salvador! 13. 
Figures and descriptions. Knip a I] Keicbeubach b IV', Scblegel 4; Salvador! 13. 
Adult male. Head above, tbroat and under-parts grey, darkest on occiput and sides 
of neck, washed with purplish on crown, tliroat and jugulum, with vinaceous on breast 
and abdomen, with rose on sides of head and middle of abdomen; under tail- 
coverts chestnut; forehead, in front of eyes, and chin white, passing into grey; 
hind neck orangc-cinnamon-rufous ; ear-coverts washed with this colour; above 
the mantle dark brown-grey ; entire back, upper tail-coverts and upper wing- 
coverts metallic golden-green; quills above mealy blackish myrtle-green, the inner 
ones washed with golden-green ; quills below broccoli-brown; under wing-coverts 
dark grey; tail above dark bluish green; below broccoli-brown. “Bill lead-blue 
Meyer A* Wifi'leswortli, Birds of Celebes (Nov. •22n6 1897J. ag 
