Birds of Celebes: Peristeridae. 
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281. OHALCOPHAPS STEPHANI Pchb. 
Hazel-backed Hove. 
a. Peristere d’Etienne (I) Hombr. & Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, Atl. 1846, pi. 28, f. 2. 
Chalcophaps stephani (I) Echb., Oolumbariae, Novit. 1851, t. 259, f. 2595; (2j Jacq. & 
Pucher., Voy. Pole Sud, Zool. HI, 1853, 119; (3) Bp., Oonsp. Av. H. 1854, 92; 
(4) Wall., Ibis 1865, 394; (5) ScliL, Ned. Tdschr. Dierk. 1866, HI, 265, 267, 345; 
(6) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VHI, 85, 114; (7) Scbl., Mus. P.-B., Columbae, 1873, 
151; (8) Briigg., Abb. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 87; (9) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. 
Gen. 1877, X, 160; (10) id., Om. Pap. HI, 1882, 178, 562; (11) Finsch, Mitth. 
Oni. Ver. Wien VHI, 1884, 93; (12) Pleske, Bull. Ac. Petersb. 1884, XH, 133; 
(13) W. Bias., Z. ges. Oni. 1886, 137; (14) Salvad., Agg. Om. Pap. 1891, m, 190; 
(15) id.. Cat. B. 1893, XXT, 521; (16) Meyer, Ibis 1893, 483; (17) M. &Wg., 
Abb. Mus. Hresd. 1896, Nr. 2, p. 20; (18) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 249, 536; (19) id., 
ib. 1897, 160, 165. 
b. Cbalcophaps hombroni (1) Wall., Ibis 1865, 394. 
c. Cbalcophaps wallacei (1) Briiggem. , Abb. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 464; (2) W. Bias., 
J. f. 0. 1883, 114, 122, 139, 162. 
For further synonymy and references cf. Salvadori 15. 
Figures and descriptions. Hombron & Jacquinot a I\ Beicbenbacb J; Jacquinot & 
Pucberan 2; Bonaparte 3\ Scblegel 5; Salvadori 10, 15. 
Male adult. A short sinciput wlute; rest of head, neck and upper mantle glossy 
magenta-purple on a cinnamon-brown ground; back, lesser vring-coverts, rump, 
upper tail-coverts and tail chestnut, brighter on the rump; across the lower back 
two darker bands, with a band of light cinnamon between them; the lateral tail- 
feathers blackish at the tips and inner webs, the outeimost pair gi-ey, with a broad 
subtemiinal area of blackish, base of the outer web cinnamon-hazel ; tail below (when 
not spread out) blackish; middle and greater wing-coverts and inner remiges 
glossy golden-green; the other remiges dusky brown; chin, cheeks, throat and 
jugulum hazel, glossed with purple; remaining under parts, including under side 
of wing, more cmna.mon-rufous, under tail-coverts darker, chestnut: “iris narrow, 
dark olive-brown; eyelids dull red; bill bright yellow; feet blood-red” — Wall. 4 
| ad., Gorontalo: Eiedel — C 267). 
Female. Similar to the male, but the forehead grey, not white; the rest of the head and 
hind neck hazel without so much magenta- purple gloss ([$] ad., Celebes: Riedel, 
Manado, Mch. 71: Meyer — C 2048). 
Young. “Brown, varied with cinnamon colour; forehead ashy rufous or wliitish rufous; feathers 
of the upper and under parts brown, tipped with rufous-cinnamon; upper tail-coverts 
and greater wing-coverts ahnost entirely cinnamon” (Salvad. 15). 
Measurements (4 adults — N. Celebes): Wing 147 — 155 mm; tail 102 — 108; tarsus 26; bill 
from feathers of forehead 17 — 18. 
Distribution. Celebes: — Gorontalo Distr. (Forsten 7, Rosenb. 7, Riedel 13 and Dresd. 
Museum); Minahassa: Manado (Wallace 4, 15, Meyer 6 and Dresd. Mus.); South 
Celebes (Doherty 19)', West Celebes (Doherty 19)', East Celebes (Nat. Coll, in 
Dresden and Tring Mus. 77); Ternate (Fischer 72); Waigiou (Wallace 10, 15, 
Bernstein 7); Batanta (Bruijn, Beccari 70); Salawatti (Bernstein, Hoedt 7); 
Mysol (Wallace 4, 15, Hoedt 7); Kei (Rosenberg 7, Beccari 70); Am (Rosen- 
berg 7, Beccari 70, Riedel, Dresd. Mus.); New Guinea (Hombron & Jacquinot 
