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Abdomen biue-giey . 



4, 



o. 



Abdomen yellowish olive-green : 3. 

 Breast and neck peppered with grey 



Breast and neck white with lemon tinge : 4. 



Terminal bar to tail slate grey, only 

 about ~ cm. wide .... 



Terminrd bar to tail greyish white, over 



3 cm. wide : 5. 

 Rump slaty, tinged with greeny, jiale tip 



to tail sharply separated 



Rnmj) olive-greeny, pale tip to tail more 

 extended and not sharply separated . 



P. c. alliyutor Collett, /'. /. S. 

 1898, p. 354 : Alligator 

 River, N.W. Australia.* 



P. c. eeeretti Eothsch., Bull. B. 

 0. C. 1898, p. 34 : Alor and 

 Pantar. 



P. c. ciiicta (Temm.), Piyeons 

 i. p. 58 : Timor, AVetter and 

 Rom ah. 



P. c. lettiensis Schl., Ned. 

 Tijilsclir. T)ierh. iv. p. 9 : 

 Letti and Jloa. 



Slightly larger, wings more blue-)ilack 



Slightly smaller, wings more greenish 



P. c. ottoiiis Hart., Daniraer and 

 Babber. 



/'. r. alhocincttis Wall., P. Z. S. 

 1863, p. 490 : Flores, Sum- 

 bawa, Lombok. 



/'. c. balii'iisis Hart., Xoi\ Xool. 

 iii. \i. 553 : Bali. 



P. c. everetti is not so closely allied to P. c. lettiensis as Dr. Finsch {Notes 

 Leyden Miis. x.xii. p. 294) appears to think, the band to the tail being less 

 wide and darker grey ; the peppered grey neck and chest make it distinct 

 enough to be called a " good species " by those who are not very generously 

 disjioscd towards subspecies. 



8. Ptilinopus xanthogaster roseipileum subsp. nov. 



[C'oluiiiba Xanlhujitixter Wagler, Sysl. Ar., Cnhimhn spec. 2',l (1827: E.x Temminck ''Celebes" 

 errore. I accept Banda as the typical locality, as Temminck originally described .3 from 

 Celebes and '.i from Banda).] 



Plilopiis .ranlhnguster Finsch, Notes Leijitm Miisemn .\xii. p. 201. (Kisser, Wetter : errore, uon 

 P. xdiithogasler a-niifhugaskr). 



All specimens from the islands of Roma, Moa, Kisser, Letti and Wetter 

 differ from P. x. xanthogaster from Banda, Key, Dammer, Taam, Tenor, 

 Manggoer, Koer and Timorlaut in the following characters : — 



The pileum, instead of being light lavender-grey, is of a light cream-colour, 

 in fine sjiecimens beautifully tinged with ros}', the concealed median portions of 

 the feathers pale yellow. The middle of the throat is of a paler lemon-yellow, 

 the narrow yellow line bordering the pileum extends more distinctly to the 



* With tbe exception of the two type fpevimen.- in Norway our specimen seems to be the only 

 one in Europe. 



