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Show 270 DR. F. H. II. GUILLEMARD ON BIRDS COLLECTED [Mar. 17, albescent chin and throat, and the short bill, the characteristics which led Lord Tweeddale to separate it from the representative P. leucotis, which has been recorded from Luzon, Negros, and Guimaras. 51. CARPOPHAGA JENEA (Linnaeus). Carpophaga cenea, Wald. Tr. Z. S. vol. ix. pt. 2, p. 215 ; Sharpe, Tr. Linn. Soc. n. s. Zool. vol. i. p. 346 ; Salvad. Ucc. di Born. p. 290. Hab. Luzon (Meyer) ; Zebu, Leyte, Mindanao, Dinagat, and Basilan (Everett), Negros and Palawan (Steere) ; Sulu (Guillemard) ; Borneo ( Wallace). a. 6* • Sulu Island. b, c. 2 • Sulu Island, Iris crimson ; bill greyish green ; feet dull red. Length 42*0-43*0 centims.; wing 23*7-24*0 centims. Compared with examples of Wallace's from the Timor group, the Sulu birds are seen to be brighter in the iridescence of the back and wings, the head is more vinaceous, there is a well-marked grey collar, and the under wing-coverts are pale dove-colour, not a darkish grey. G. cenea seemed abundant enough on Sulu Island, but, like M. bicolor, it was difficult to obtain, owing to the great height of the trees which it frequented. 52. CARPOPHAGA PICKERINGI, Cassin. Carpophaga pickeringi, Cass. Pr. Philadelph. Acad. 1854, p. 228 ; id. U.S. Expl. Exp. p. 267, pi. xxvii. ; Sharpe, Tr. Linn. Soc. n. s. i. p. 353 ; id. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 316. a. 2 • Sulu Island. Iris dull red ; space round eye red ; bill bluish green ; feet and tarsus dull purplish red. Length 42*0-44*0 centims. ; wing 22*8- 25*5 centims. ; tarsus 3*2 centims. Head ash colour, more or less tinged with vinaceous ; forehead and chin white ; throat and breast pale vinaceous; sides of body, abdomen, and thighs pale ash ; under tail-coverts somewhat darker, and more or less washed with dull fawn-colour towards the tips. Mantle pale clear ash ; back, outer surface of wings, and uropygium dull dark grey with faint pinkish and green iridescence, hoary in some lights. Tail above dull metallic green ; below greyish, schis-taceous. Being unable satisfactorily to determine this species from Cassin's very short description of C. pickeringi, I forwarded an example to Mr. Ridgway, who kindly compared it with the type in the Washington Museum. He writes:-" I believe them to be specifically identical. The slight differences which I am able to detect are as follows : - " In the type of C. pickeringi the nape is much less purely grey, |
