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Celebes, whereas in Sula it is considered by Major Wardlaw llamsay and 
Salvadori to be smaller. Spilornis rujipectus and Turacoena manadeims are also 
reduced in size in Sula. M. albicapilla is very similar to M. ambohiensij, (L.) of 
the Moluccas (Ceram group), which Salvadori (a?) distinguishes bj its having 
the forehead reddish and not whity-grey, the crown and occiput vmaceous and 
not grey, the hind neck more decidedly green, less golden and less glossed wit 
purple, and the under tail-coveits of a cinnamon-rufous colour more intense and 
uniform. M.keyensis Salvad., M. maforemis Salvad., of Kei and Mafoor, respect 
ively, and M. doreya Bp. of New Guinea and some of the neighbouring N.W. 
Islands are also forms nearly related to M. albicapilla. M. macassanensis ’Wall, 
of South Celebes (not known from the North) may be distinguished, as Major 
Earn say shows, by its mouse-brown upper surface and the absence in the male 
of metallic colours, the sexes being presumably similar; also it is much larger. 
M. albicapilla contrasts with the other Pigeons of Celebes in having the 
sexes dissimilar, and a third plumage, much resembling that of the female, for 
the young. Also, although some allowance must be made for differences in 
age, it is unquestionably subject to much individual variation, while the other 
Pigeons seem to be very stable. The genus Macropygia seems to mark a low 
type of Pigeon; in Celebes it seems to be regarded as a sort of Cuckoo. 
Dr. Platen (all) remarks that M. albicapilla is the only Pigeon that ven- 
tures to approach human settlements, where it is always to be seen in pairs. 
Major Wardlaw Kamsay writes that the members of the genus are “very par- 
tial to open glades and clearings in dense forest, especially when covered with 
a secondary growth of low scrubby jungle . . . 'Iheir food is composed of seeds 
and berries , one very favourite fruit being the Chilli [Capsicum fastigiatum), of 
which they consume an enormous quantity”. 
* 277. MACROPYGIA MACASSARIENSIS (Wall.). 
Southern Cuckoo-dove. 
a. Macropygia amboinensis var. maeassariensis (1) Wall., Ibis 1865, 389. 
Macropygia maeassariensis (1) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VUI, 85; (2) Wardl. Ra^., is 
1890, 240; (3) Salvad., Cat. B. XXI, 1893, 343; (4) Biittik, Zool. Erg. Weber s 
Reise in Ost-Ind. ID, 1893, 287; (5) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 180. 
b. Macropygia albicapilla, part. (1) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 137; (2) ?Gruillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 
558 (specim. e. f.); (3) W. Bias., Ztschr. ges. Orn. 1886, 133, 179. 
For further references cf. Salvadori 3. 
Descriptions. Wardl. Ramsay 2, Salvadori 5, Biittikofer 4. 
Adult. Above bistre-brown, with a chestnut shade on the wing ® ^ gjjjgg 
head, neck and mantle, the neck and mantle minutely frecHed ale 
of head Brey-brown, Tbilisi, oa chin and throat; " 
barred wi'h brown, almost clear of bars on the lower abdomen m , 
, . w .,1 cUiiifliTion-rufous, inner edges or remiges below 
under wingr-coverts, and axillaries ciuna . , .i . l • t ^ ■ 
o , 1 „rr, im whitish, the outermost pam of rectrices 
washed with the same; tail broccoh-brown, tip wmxisii, v 
greyer & Wigleswortli, Birds of Celebes (Nov. 2-lrci, 189/). 
