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d. Goura tristigmata (I) Scbl., De Dierent. 1864, fig., p. 40. 
Phlogoenas tristigmata (1) Wald., Tr. Z. S. VUI, 1872, 85, pt. (Manado); (2) Platen, Gre- 
fied. Welt 1887, 230. 
e. Phlogoenas tristigma (1) Salvad., Oat. B. XXI, 1893, 590. 
Por further references cf. Salyadori e 7. 
Figures and descriptions. Wallace c JF; Schlegel d J; Bonaparte h 1, c 1\ Salvador! e 1. 
Adult male. Sinciput bright ochre-yellow; bind head and occiput bluish grey, glossed 
with golden-green; round hind neck, extending to midway on sides of neck 
a band of prune-purple about 10 mm broad; mantle and shoulders bluish grey, 
glossed with green; rest of back, scapulars, upper tail-coverts and middle 
tail-feathers dark brown glossed with greenish, washed on the wing-coverts and 
scapulars with chestnut; primaries greyish dusky; outermost tail-feathers greyish 
blue, becoming washed with green on the inner tail-feathers, increasing towards 
the middle ones, a broad indistinct dusky band about 25 mm from tlie end; chin 
and throat whitish; sides of face and neck pale bluish grey, touched on the ear- 
coverts with cinnamon; chest bluish grey, washed with ochraceous; sides, flanks, 
thighs, sides of rump and of upper tail-coverts dark wood-brown, tinged with 
greenish; lower breast ochre-yellow, bases of the feathers wliite (the yellow looking 
as though laid on with a brush); abdomen and most of the under tail-coverts 
white; under wing-coverts brown, white and fulvous: “iris brown; bill grey-brown; 
feet cherry red” — Platen. Wing 182 mm; tail c. 138; bill from feathers of fore- 
head 20, from nostril 9; tarsus 45 ((J' ad., Burukan, 11. Jan. 85: Platen in 
Nehrkorn Coll., Nr. 906). This specimen closely resembles the plate in the Ibis 
1865, pi. LX. 
A second specimen ((j' ad., Minahassa, 6. Nov. 86: Platen in ColL v. Ber- 
lepsch) differs from the above in having mantle and shoulders purplish grey glossed 
somewhat with golden-green in certain lights; primaries dusky brown; tail-feathers, 
except the fom- middle ones, blackish, paling into greyish towards the base, and 
broadly-tipped with light slate-grey; chest grey, glossed with green. Wing 176 mm 
tail c. 130; tarsus 44; bill 20. 
Young. The greater wing- coverts and inner remiges of a russet tint with cinnamon-rufous 
tips; a broad space of orange-cinnamon from the throat to the white abdomen 
breaking through tlie grey of the chest (Grorontalo: Riedel — Nr. 1754). 
Distribution. North Celebes: Minahassa — Tondano (Forsten c 5), Likupang (Wallace 
b 2, c 3, el)\ Rurukan (Platen 2, in Nehrkorn Coll, and elsewhere); Grorontalo 
Distr. (Riedel in Dresden Mus.). 
This Ground -pigeon is a very rare bird in North Celebes. A single spe- 
cimen, the type in the Leyden Museum, was obtained by Forsten, and only 
one also by Mr. Wallace, who remarks that it feeds on the ground and inhabits 
the drier forests. Dr. Riedel sent a couple of immature specimens to the 
Dresden Museum from Gorontalo, 1875, and Dr. Platen alone seems to have 
obtained anything like a series. The latter had two specimens in captivity during 
his stay at Rurukan; these were at first extremely wild and refused the grain- 
food offered to them, but were tempted by earth-worms and soon became tame 
and accustomed themselves to grain. 
In South Celebes the plum-purple nuchal collar is divided by the bronze 
green of the head and nape, so that a spot is formed on each side of the neck 
