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by the Sarasiiis. This is a very distinct species, the only known form with 
which it has near affinities being C . poliocephala of the Southern Philippines, a 
smaller bird, with a rufous-chestnut throat and vinous-white breast (Salvad. 8). 
Count Salvadori makes it the type of his Carpophagine subgenus Zomphaps 
including therein , besides C. radiata, four species from Papuasia and the Mo- 
luccas, which, however, can claim no very near relationship with the Cele 
besian bird. 
* 271. OARPOPHAGA POECILORRHOA Brtigg. 
Long-tailed Imperial Pigeon. 
Carpophaga poecilorrhoa ( 1 ) Brilggein., Abli. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 84, ('SJ SalvaL, Oat. 
B. yXT, 1893, 220; (3) M. & Wg., Abh. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Nr.8, p. 15; f ) J , 
Vogelskel. 1897, II, pi. COXXX. w-vtt -r.io i v'ttt- 
a. Gymnophaps poecUorrhoa (I) PeL., Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien 1876, XXVI, J ’ 
fll) Gld., B. Xew Guinea V, pi. 60 (1880); (3) Meyer, Ibm 1881 , 169; W. Bias., 
J. f. O. 1883, 142; (5) Heine & Rcbw., Xomencl. Mus. Hem. 18J0, 282. 
b. Carpophaga (Ducula) sp. ( 1 ) Lenz, J. f. 0. 1877, 378. 
Figures and descriptions. Meyer IV (skel.); Gould all; Pelzeln a I, i 
Lenz b 1; Salvadori 2. 
Adult. Head, neck, breast and upper abdomen grey, paler on forehead and chin, browner 
on hind head and neck, slaty on lower hind neck, tinged with vmaceous on bieas 
and iugiiliim, the feathers of the lower breast and upper abdomen terminally bordered 
ivith cinnamon; entire back, upper tail-coverts and wings dark bronze-brown, 
glossed with green; tail black, tipped with whitish; sides, flanks and crissum dar 
broTO, the feathers terminally fringed with cinnamon; under tail-coverts dark brown, 
broadly fringed on both webs with light cinnamon; under wing-coverts dark bronze 
with a greenish gloss; quills below dusky brown: “iris blood-red; bill-base vuoleL 
red, tip grey-green; feet and naked periocular ring cherry-red” — Platen in Xehrk. 
Coll, (o’, Tomohon, 6. IV. 94: P.&F. Sarasin). 
Female. Like the male. — “Feet cherry-red; base of bill red” ($, Burukan, 18. HI. 94. 
P.& F. Sarasin). 
Immature. Like the adult, but the cinnamon terminal edgings on the under surface extenchng 
up to the chest, the quills and greater wing-coverts edged and tipped witli ar 
cinnamon, the middle wing-coverts tipped with tlie same colour, the 
and browner, merging imperceptibly into the colour of the hack. mg 
tail 185 (Lotta, Minahassa, 21. VI. 93: Nat. Coll. — 0 12110). fpathers 
Measurements (4 adults). Wing 232-245 mm; tail 195-210; tarsus c. 28; ^ . 
20.5-22.5. For the loan of one of these specimens (Burukan: J!, 
debted to Mr. Nehrkoru. AVe have also been able to examne ano 
specimens, a female kindly lent to us by Count Berlepsc . ij,, ,,,, 1,^11 (Platen 
Distribution. Cekbes: - Mnahassa (Fischer 1 , v. Musschenbr. «■ d), Burukan (Platen, 
P.&F. Sarasin), Tomohon (iid.), Lotta (Xat. Coll.). 
This remarkable Pigeon, the only member of Salvadori’s Ca^popkagi^^e 
snbgenus Crgptophaps, is at present known only ^ it ToTs Mt seem to 
Mmahassa. As to its affinities Count Salvadori remarks, it does not seem to 
Meyer i: Wiglesworth, Birds of Celebes INov. 22nd, 1S07) 
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