lANTHCENAS ALBIGULARIS, 
White-throated Pig-eon. 
lanthoenas alhigularis, Bp. Compt. Rend, xxxix. p. 1105 (1854), xl. p. 218, sp. 125 (1355). 
Carpophaga alhigularis, Bp. Consp. ii. p. 44 (1854). 
lanthcenas halmaheira, Bp. Consp. ii. p. 44 (1854). 
1 Carpophaga albogularis, G. R. Gray, List Spec. B. Brit. Mus. Columbee, p. 24 (1856). 
lanthcenas halmacheira, Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 837 (1856). 
lanthcenas leucolcema. Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 837 (1856). 
lanthcenas alhigularis, Reicbenb. Handb. Columbarise, p. 118, sp. 295. — Id. op. cit., App. p. 183, t. vi. f. 66, 67 
(1862).— Schl. Mus. Bays-Bas, Colurnbee, p. 75 (1873).— Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. p. 203 (1876). 
— Sharpe, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 503 (1877). — Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. iii. p. 293 
(1878), iv. p. 101 (1879). — Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xiv. p. 662 (1879). — Id. Orn. Papuasia e delle 
Molucche, iii. pp. 120, 560 (1862). — Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. p. 440 (1882). 
Carpophaga alhogularis, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 196. — Id. Cat. B. New^ Guinea, p. 61 (1859). — Id. Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 361, 1861, p. 437. — Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 178 (1865). 
Carpophaga halmalierce, Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 178 (1865). 
lanthcenas halmaheira, Wallace, Ibis, 1865, pp. 388, 398. 
Carpophaga alhigularis, Schleg. Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. iii. p. 206 (1866). — Rosenb. Malay. Archip. p. 323 (1879). 
Colimha alhigularis, Temm. Mus. Lugd. (Schleg. 1. c.). 
lanthcenas leucosoma, Schleg. 1. c. 
Carpophaga leucolcema. Gray, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 230, no. 9212 (1870). 
Carpophaga halmaheira, Gray, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 231, no. 9213 (1870). 
Carpophaga alhigularis, Giebel, Thes. Orn. i. p. 588 (1872). 
Carpophaga leucolcema, Giebel, Thes. Orn. i. p. 586 (1872). 
Carpophaga hahnaherce, Rosenb. Reist. naar Geelvinkbaai, p. 8 (1875). 
lanthcenas rawlinsonii, Sharpe, Nature, 17 Aug. 1876, p. 339. — Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. iii.p. 76 (1878). 
The complicated synonymy of this Pigeon, as given above, has been unravelled with much care by 
Count Salvadori, from whose book on the ornithology of Papuasia we have copied the greater part of our 
references, as the work has been so excellently done by our esteemed colleague in Turin. Tbe history of 
the species resolves itself into a long account of the tangle of names through which it passes, and we do not 
j)ropose to tire our readers with these details, which can be fully studied in Count Salvadori’s volume above 
quoted. 
Not oidy is the present species found all over New Guinea from the north-west to the soutii-east, but it 
also occurs in the Molucca Islands of Halmahera or Gilolo, Ilaou, Morotai or Morty Island, Ternate, Bourou, 
and Ceram. In New Guinea it has been met with in the Arfak Mountains and at Dorey, while in the 
south-eastern portion of that great island it has occurred near Port Moresby, as well as in the Sogeri district 
of the Astrolabe Range. It is also known from Salwati, Mysol, and Waigiou, as well as the Ke Islands. 
Nothing has been recorded concerning its habits. 
The following descrij)tion is taken from a specimen procured by Mr. H. O. F'orbes in the Sogeri district 
of the Astrolabe Range ; — 
Adult male. General colour above black, the feathers glossed at the ends with green or coj)pery green, 
changing into pink under certain lights ; lesser and median coverts black, with edgings similar to the 
feathers of the back, but much narrower; greater coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, 
only the innermost secondaries with green edgings ; upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers black, the former 
slightly fringed with green at the ends ; crown of head reddish juirple, appearing grey under certain lights ; 
hind neck, sides of neck and mantle entirely reddish or pink, with slight greenish reflexions ; hind neck, 
lores, and sides of crown like the head ; ear-coverts, cheeks, and throat white ; remainder of under surface 
of body light coppery pink, the breast and abdomen varied with ashy bases to the feathers; sides of body 
and flanks, leaden grey, with greenish or coppery edges to the feathers ; thighs and under tail-coverts dark 
slate-colour, the latter with coppery pink margins to the feathers ; under wing-coverts, axillaries, and under 
surface of quills dark slate-colour. Total length 14 inches, culmen 0'95, wing 9*1, tail 5*0, tarsus 0’9. 
The Plate represents an adult bird of the natural size, and the figure is drawn from Mr. Forbes’s specimen 
described above. 
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