This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...neighbouring islands. There are two examples in the Pryer collection from Yokohama, and one from the central group of the LooChoo Islands. There is an example in the Norwich Museum obtained by Mr. Ringer near Nagasaki, and there are several examples in the British Museum from Nagasaki and Yokohama. There is an example ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...neighbouring islands. There are two examples in the Pryer collection from Yokohama, and one from the central group of the LooChoo Islands. There is an example in the Norwich Museum obtained by Mr. Ringer near Nagasaki, and there are several examples in the British Museum from Nagasaki and Yokohama. There is an example in the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfort (labelled Columba metallica) obtained by Kittlitz on one of the Bonin Islands, and there is a second example in the St. Petersburg Museum from the same source. The latter has been made the type of a new species, Ianthmnas nitens (Stejneger, Proc. United States Nat. Mus. 1887, p. 421), on the ground that the head is brown instead of grey. The difference is doubtless due to abrasion. Amongst the examples in the British Museum from Yokohama and Nagasaki are several in which the slate-grey ground-colour has more or less faded to russet-brown, and the metallic purples and greens have become dull. The metallic colours are very deceptive. In typical examples the breast is green, very slightly suffused with pinkish purple when seen with the spectator's back to the light. The Bonin example in the Senckenberg Museum is the greenest I have seen. On the other hand, the Loo-Choo example in the Pryer collection has the breast-feathers pinkish purple with green bases, when seen in the position mentioned. These are probably individual differences unconnected with geographical distribution. The genera of the Columbae have never been satisfactorily diagnosed, and it is possible that this species and the two following do not belong to the genus Carpophaga. It has been stated (Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 367) that an allied species differs from the species of that genus in two important particulars: it has no gall-blad...
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