[ANTHCENAS ALBIGULARIS

White-throated Pigeon.

Janthanas albigularis, Bp. Compt. Rend. xxxix. p. 1105 (1854)
Carpophaga albigularis, Bp. Consp. ii. p. 44 (1854).

Tanthenas halmaheira, Bp. Consp. ii. p. 44 (1854).
1 Carpophaga albogularis, G. R. Gray, List Spec. B

, xl. p. 218, Sp. 125 (1855).

. Brit. Mus. Columbe, p. AG
Tanthenas halmacheira, Bp. Compt. Rend. xliii. p. 837 (1856) Oe

Janthenas leucolema, Bp. Compt. Rend. xiliii. p. 837 (1856)
Tanthenas albigularis, Reichenb. Handb. Columbariz p. 118, s

‘ a Oo ee—ide 4] 2G an
(1862).—Schl. Mus. Bays-Bas, Columbe, p. 75 (1873) : Re ee C8 aL oy

-—Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. p. 203 (1876)

. ).—Ramsay, Proc. Li a Ce
(1878), iv. p. 101 (1879).—Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xiv ) > ILivaia, ‘Se, IN|. Si, Wy.

Molucche, iii. pp. 120, 560 (1862).—Sharpe, J

—Sharpe, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 503 (1877
po | ill. p. 293
p- 662 (1879).—Id. Orn. Papuasia e delle
iy ourn. Linn. Soc. xvi. p. 446 (1882
Carpophaga albogularis, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 196.—Id. Cat. B New G , a an
oe a e : : : . Cat. B. Ne ulnea, p. 6
Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 361, 1861, p. 437.—Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p- 178 (1865)
Carpophaga halmahere, Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 178 (1865) }

(1859).—Id. Proe.

Tanthenas halmaheira, Wallace, Ibis, 1865, pp. 388, 398.

Carpophaga albigularis, Schleg. Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. ili. p. 206 (1866).—Rosenb Malay. Archi aon ee
Columba albigularis, Temm. Mus. Lugd. (Schleg. 7. ¢.). —— Le
Tanthenas leucosoma, Schleg. 1. ¢. |

Carpophaga leucolema, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 230, no. 9212 (1870).

Carpophaga halmahewra, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 231, no. 9213 (1870).

Carpophaga albigularis, Giebel, Thes. Orn. i. p. 588 (1872).

Carpophaga leucolema, Giebel, Thes. Orn. i. p. 586 (1872).

Carpophaga halmahere, Rosenb. Reist. naar Geelvinkbaai, p. 8 (1875).

Tanthenas rawlinsonii, Sharpe, Nature, 17 Aug. 1876, p. 339.—Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 8. W. iii. p. 76 (1878),

 

Tue 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 bas been so excellently done by our esteemed colleague in Turin, The history of
the species resolves itself into a long account of the tangle of names through which it passes, and we do not
propose to tire our readers with these details, which can be fully studied in Count Salvadori’s volume above
quoted.

Not only is the present species
also occurs in the Molucea Islands of Halmahéra or Gilo

mid Ceram. In New Guinea it has been met with in the Arfak Mountains and
occurred near Port Moresby, as well as in the Sogeri district
_as well as the Ke Islands.

found all over New Guinea from the north-west to the south-east, but it
lo, Raou, Morotai or Morty Island, Ternate, Bourou,
at Dorey, while in the

south-eastern portion of that great island it has
of the Astrolabe Range. It is also known from Salwati, Mysol, and Waigiou
Nothing has been recorded concerning its habits.

The following description is taken from a specimen procured by Mr.
of the Astrolabe Range :—

Wali male. General colour above black, the feathers glosse
lesser and median coverts

H. O. Forbes in the Sogeri district

dat the ends with green or coppery green,
ing 1 in ii ack. with edgings similar to the
changing into pink under certain lights ; black, ging : .
; primary-coverts, and quills black,

evreater coverts, bastard-wing
| | tail-feathers black, the former

feathers of the back, but much narrower ;
upper tail-coverts anc

‘ reddis “ple, appearing gre
Slightly fringed with green at the ends; crown of head reddish purple, appearing § o
. ; t greenish reflexions ; hind neck,

hind neck, sides of neck and mantle entirely reddish or ainder of under surface
lores, and sides of crown like the head; ear-coverts, che nainder o ‘

of body light coppery pink, the breast and abdomen vari
and flanks leaden grey, with greenish or coppery edges to t
slate-colour, the latter with coppery pink margins to the feathers 5
surface of quills dark slate-colour. Total length 14 inche
f the natural size, and the

Oily the innermost secondaries with green edgings os
y a e oe y under certain lights ;

pink, with sligh
eks, and throat white; rel
ed with ashy bases to the feathers; sides of body
he feathers ; thighs and under. tail-coverts dark
under wing-coverts, axillaries, and under
s, culmen 0-95, wing 9'1, tail 5:0, tarsus 09.
1 foure is drawn from Mr. Forbes’s specimen
lhe Plate represents an adult bird o g

described above. [R. B. S.J

 

 

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