CARPOPHAGA RUBRICERA. p
» Bonap.

New-Ireland Fruit-Pigeon.

Columba pinon, Less. Voy. Coquille, Zool. i. p. 342 (1826, nec Quoy et Gaim.)

Carpophaga rubricera, Bp. Consp. ii. p.31 (1864, ex Gray, Micon amen List. Columb, ia Brit Mine aerate
: Fp tose 7 ¢ 0 oi S. p. LO

Wallace, Ibis, 1865, p. 383.—Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 229, no. 9177 (1870).—Schl Mis

a oe: Pays-Bas,
Columbe, p. 81 (1873).—Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. ix. p. 200 (1876, pt.).—Sclater ae Zool

aoc 1877, Dy 109 (pt.), 1878, De 289, 671.—Elliot, op. cit. 1878, p. 549.—Salvad. Monog. Globicera, p. 13
(1878).—Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 13.—Salvad. Ibis, 1879, p. eee Proc Zool Soc
” Pare - ) pee ae ) , . Soc.

Re tiees), Salvad. Orn. Papuasia e delle Molucche, iii. p. 79 (1882).—Finsch, Vog. der Siidsee,

Globicera rubricera, Bp. Consp. ii. p. 31 (1854).—Id. Compt. Rend. xxxix. p. 1073 (1854), xl. p. 217 (1855)
xli. p. 1111 (1855), xlii. p. 835 (1856).—Id. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. nee ao
Columb. p. 121.—Bonap. Iconogr. Pigeons, pl. 39 (1857). :

Carpophaga lepida, Cassin, Journ. Philad. Acad. 1854, p. 330.—Bonap., Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 403.—Id
Compt. Rend. xli. p. 1111 (1855), xlii. p. 835 (1856).

Carpophaga (Globicera) rubricera, Gray, Cat. Birds Tropical Isl. p. 41 (1859).

Carpophaga (Zonenas) pinon, Gray, tom. cit. p. 42 (1859, nec Quoy et Gaim.).

Muscadivora rubricera, Schleg. Dierentuin, fig. 1, p. 209.

Carpophaga (Globicera) rubricera, Cab. & Reichen. J. f. O. 1876, p. 325.

 

A succincr history of this species has been given by Count Salvadori in his great work on the birds of New
Guinea and the Moluccas, from which we have taken the major part of the above synonymy. It appears to
land, New Hanover, and New Britain, having been found in the two first-
mentioned islands by Dr. Huesker during the German Transit-of-Venus Expedition, while Dr. Finsch states
that it was the commonest of the large Pigeons in New Britain. All the references to the occurrence of
this bird in the Solomon group are probably erroneous, as it is represented in the latter locality by Carpophaga
rufigula of Salvadori, which has the head and neck ashy, with the cheeks and throat vinaceous. In C. rubricera
the head and neck are vinaceous, the lower part of the hind neck being asby. i.
The following is a translation of Count Salvadori’s d taken from the type in the British

be entirely confined to New Ire

escription,

Museum :—

“Head, neck, and breast vinaceous ; a ring round the eye
part of the hind neck and upper part of the back pale ashy grey 3
n, anal region, and thighs rusty ; under
which is swollen, and the feet red.”

n collected by Mr. Cockerell in New Ireland, and

and the margin of the forehead whitish; lower
remainder of the back and wings shining
coppery green ; abdome tail-coverts chestnut ; primaries and tail-
feathers blue-black with a green reflection ; the cere,
The figure in the Plate is drawn from an adult specime

now in the British Museum. It is of the size of life.
R. B. S.]