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Birds of Celebes: Peristeridae. 
Supposed local race of Great Sangi. 
g. Chalcophaps indica var. sanghirensis (1) W. Bias., Ornis 1888, 623. 
h. Chalcophaps sanghirensis (1) Salvad., Oat. B. XXI, 1893, 513. 
“Momboi tana”, “Pombo tana”, Minaliassa, Nat. Ooll. 
“Kolohono”, Tagulandang, Ruang, and Siao, “Kohono”, Great Sangi, iid. 
“Limukon”, Tonkean, E. Celebes, iid. 
“Sebot”, Peling, iid. 
For further synonymy and references cf. Salvadori 58, and for Great Sangi, W. Blasius g 1. 
Figures and descriptions. Rowley XXJ; Hayes b II] Reichenbach VI, e II', Bonaparte 
3, el; Jerdon dl, David & Oustalet. 52; Legge 25; Salvadori 32, .58; 
Vorderman 34', Oates 35. 
Adult male. Forehead and a broad superciliary stripe greyish white, changing on 
occiput and nape to bluish lead-colour ; sides of head and under-parts brownish 
wine-purple, greyer on the abdomen, paler oir the cliin; hind neck, mantle and 
lesser wing-coverts darker brownish vinaceous, the feathers margined with purplish 
lead-colour', the lesser wing-coverts broadly tipped with greyish white, forming a bar ; 
the other wing-coverts, back and inner remiges golden-green, upper back with 
leaden margins, the remaining remiges and winglet dark brown; the lower back 
chocolate, glossed with bronze, and crossed with tw'o bands of bluish grey; feathers 
of rump, and upper tail-covcrts blacldsh, with bluish grey bars; under tail- 
coverts slaty, the longer ones and tail dusky black, the 3 or 4 lateral pairs of 
tail-feathers grey at the base and terminal margin; under wing-coverts and remiges 
below where they rest upon the body dark cinnamon-rufous, the rest of the remiges 
dusky browTi; “iris blackish browm; feet cherry-red; claws light grey; bill fiery red” — 
Meyer 28 ([(^J*] near Manado, Aug. — Sept. 1892: Nat. Ooll. — 0 10934). 
Female. Differs from the male in having the head above vinaceous rufous brown like the 
neck and breast; the four middle tail-feathers brown, the next two pairs more or less 
cinnamon-rufous and blackish, the outer pairs as in the male; the greyish white bar 
on the ulnar coverts hardly indicated (near Manado, Aug. — Sept. 1892: Nat. Ooll. 
— 0 10935). 
Young. Macropggi(i-]ik&; dusky brown above, the lesser wing-coverts and scapulars mostly 
golden-green, the greater and middle wing-coverts tipped with cinnamon-rufous forming 
two bars; tail much as in the female; under-parts barred with cinnamon and dusky 
(juv. Lotta, Minahassa, 25. V. 93: Nat. Ooll. — 0 12134). 
Measurements. Wing (adults Oelebes) 142—152 mm, (adults Tagulandang, Ruang and Siao) 
149 — 161, (Great Sangi) 142—152; tail ca. 90; tarsus 27; culmen from nasofrontal 
suture ca. 21. 
Eggs. Oream-colour, 27 X 20 mm (Bengal — Nehrkorn MS.). Two in number; cream- 
white to white with a decided, though very pale, cafe'-au-lait tinge; oval, sometimes 
rather pointed; shell fine and fairly glossy (Hume 51). 
Nest. Of roots, grass and twigs; saucer-shaped; usually built low down in a dense bush or 
tree in forest or jungle (Hume 51). 
Distribution. Himalayas west as far as Oashmere; south and east to Haina n and Formosa, 
Ceylon, the Andamans and Nicobars, through the Malay Peninsula and East India 
Islands as far- as West New Guinea. 
For exact recorded localities cf. Salvadori 32, and add: Cambodia (Mouhot 11)', ? South 
China (De La Touche 56)', Nias and Engano (ModigL 40, 57); Billiton (Vorderman 
