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Paumotu Group. The birds from Makatea have the hght edgings 

 of the secondaries paler than specimens from Niau, Fakarava, and 

 Makemo, but are otherwise the same. The type-specimen of Ptili- 

 nopus coralensis Peale was redescribed by Salvadori (Cat. birds Brit, 

 mus., 1893, 21, p. 105) as PtUopus smithsonianm, as he found that it 

 did not agree in color with the platfe as given by Peale. Peale's type 

 was a mounted bird originally, though now remade as a skin, and the 

 differences noted by Salvadori seem due to long exposure to dust and 

 light. PlUoims smithsonianus w^ill stand as a direct synonym of 

 P. coralensis with the same type-specimen extant for both (see Ogilvie- 

 Grant, Ibis, 1913, p. 349). 



32. Ptilopus perousii (Peale). 



Ptilinopus perousii Peale, U. S. explor. exped., 1848, 8, p. 195. (Upolu, 

 Samoan Islands). 



Five specimens of this handsome pigeon were collected at Tongatabu 

 in the Tonga Islands on 30 November. One other has the locality 

 uncertain but probably came from this same island. Three males in a 

 series of four have an ochraceous orange band across the breast, 

 while in the fourth this band is barely indicated. One female has the 

 shorter under tail coverts tipped with red and their bases and the 

 longer feathers yellow. Another (place of capture somewhat uncer- 

 tain) has the under tail coverts entirely yellow. 



33. Ptilopus dupetithouarsii (Neboux). 



Cclumbia dupetithousarsii Neboux, Rev. zooL, 1840, p. 289. (Christina Island, 

 Marquesas Group). 



Eight specimens, six of them males, were taken at Nukuhiva, Mar- 

 quesas Islands, on 16 September. The males vary in the amount of 

 reddish orange on the underparts. One adult female resembles the 

 males but has less of this bright color below than the more highly 

 colored specimens. An immature female has the reddish orange patch 

 below as in adults while the crown cap is grayer and much obscured 

 posteriorly by greenish tips on the feathers. The bill in this species 

 is dusky, the feet brownish. 



