724 ZOOLOGY OF TIIE SOLOMON ISLANDS, 



Ptilopus Lewisi, sp. nov. 



Ptilopus viridis, var. Bamsay, in P.L.S. of N.S.W., Vol. IV, 



1879, p.p. 73, 74. 



Ptilopus eugenics, (female) Kamsay, Journal of Linn. Soc. London, 



Zool. 1881. 



From an extensive series of Ptilopus eugenics, (Gould.) collected 

 by Mr. A. Morton at Ugi, Solomon Islands, and which contains 

 adults of both sexes, and also a very young female in the nestling 

 plumage, it is evident that the bird I described as P. viridis, var. 

 (I.e.) is a distinct species, Morton also abtained a young bird of 

 this new species in plumage the same as the adult, which confirms 

 me in this view. A description of this species will be found in 

 the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of N.S.W., Vol. IV., 

 1879, pp. 73, 74, as quoted above. 



Sab. Islands of Florida and Malay ta, Solomon Group. 



I have named this species in honour of Dr. T. H. Lewis, E.N. 

 of H.M.S. "Cormorant. 



Ptilopus eugenije, Gould. 



Ptilopus eugenics, Gould — Eamsay, in Journ. Linn. Soc, London, 



Zool., 1881 ; (J. 



The yeung on leaving the nest have the chin and forehead 

 only white, and the rest of the head ashy, washed with green, 

 the greater wing-coverts and the secondaries are margined on 

 their outer webs with pale yellow, in other respects the plumage 

 is like that of the adult ; the adult males and females are alike 

 in plumage, the male having the white extended a little further 

 down the neck. 



Ptilopus joiiannis, Sclater. 



Ptilopus solomonensis, Gray, $ . Ptilopus ceraseipectus, Tristram, $ 



There can be no doubt that the female bird described by Gray 

 is of the same species as Ptilopus johannis of Sclater, but as Gray's 



