f 178 ) 



fiidina red (dark vennilion), fVet Miiisli crimson (pale vinlct, dirty violet), Ijill 

 snlphnreous."' All these specimens ai)iioar to be indistingnishabie from those 

 from Timor, tlionjrh of the latter I oonld only compare six specimens. 



i'k Ptilinopus cincta lettieusis .Sclileg. 



PlilopKS eiiicliin lellieiisitt Sclilegel, Xeilerl. Tijihrhr. Di,rl-, iv. p. 'J (IH7I : Letti). 

 Pliltipiis letlleii.sis Finsch, X(,leii Lcijihn .Viis. xxii. p. '2',i;i (partim : Lctti only, not Babber). 



r.c. lettiensis is evidently only l;ii(i\vii fnmi Letti and Jloa, as well as from 

 Lnang, according to Jleyer. The binls from Babber and Dammer, as we shall 

 see, are different, while the locality Timorlaut is (jnite donbtfid ; Meyer described 

 a yonng specimen received from there throngh Riedel, bnt not a second specimen 

 has come to hand from Timorlant of this rather conspicnons bird, therefore the 

 locality is most likely erroneons. Kiihu sent : 7 J ? ad. from Moa, November 

 1902 (Nos. 014.-)— 6150, G158) ; 9 c? ? ad. from l.etti, November V.WZ (Nos. 

 6021—6024, 0047, 6048, 6081—0083). " Iris bnrnt-sienna red, eyelid chromeons, 

 feet iinr]ile, bill yellow." 



7. Ptilinopus cincta ottonis snbsp. nov. 



DiflPers from P. r. h'ttiemis at a glance by the colour of the tail, which has 

 the slate-colonred basal portion less extended, not sharply separated in a straight 

 line from the yellowish-white terminal ])ortion, bnt more or less irregularly, 

 gradually merging into the latter, which is thns more extended. The rnmp and 

 upper tail-coverts are olive-green instead of slate-grey with a greenish tinge, 

 as in r. c. lettiensis. 



Ihih. Dammer and P.abber. Tifpe, S ad. Woeloer, Dammer I., 4. xi. 1898 

 (No. 953 n. Kiihn coll.). Named in honour of Dr. Otto Finsch. 



When writing about the birds of Dammer Island, A^ov. Zoo/. 19o(i, p. 21, 

 I united the Dammer specimens with F. c. lettiensis on the strengtli of a male 

 from Babber (Bebber), received as P. c. lettiensis from the Leydeu Museum. Dr. 

 Finsch, Notes Lei/den Museum, xxii. ji. 293, fully described the difference between 

 the Eabber and Letti specimens, but did not give a name to the former. It 

 may be added that the extent of the dark and light colour on the tail as well as 

 the colour of the rump varies, and that some of the specimens are somewhat 

 intermediate and not easy to name without knowledge of the locality, but they 

 are only a few, and a close examination always shows where they belong, at 

 least one of the distinguishing characters being nearly always well marked. 



The seven forms of Ptilinopus with attenuated first primary, blae-black or 

 black pectoral band and pale apical band to the rectrices are of one "type," 

 agreeing in their principal features, and replace each other on varions islands 

 of the east. They are in my opinion best treated as subspecies of P. cincta. 

 They may be distinguished as follows : — 



Breast, neck and head white with more 



or less yellow or buff tinge or pow- 



d<'rcd with p:ile grey : 2. 

 Breast, neck and head bluish grey, only 



ui)iier throat and band separating the 



liliu'-liiick pectoral linnd white : 0. 



