74 NOTES ON" THE ZOOLOGY OP THE SOLOMON ISLANDS, 



of the chest. By carefully comparing niy description, the 

 differences will be apparent. 



Adult male. — The forehead as far as the eyes, the lores and 

 the chin dull ashy grey, back of the head and neck, ear-coverts, 

 sides of the neck, and all the upper surface dull bronzy green, 

 with a yellowish tinge, the quills below and their concealed 

 portions above, ashy grey ; the under wing-coverts green ; the 

 secondaries with a narrow margin of yellow at the tip on the 

 outer webs ; the tertials with a large roundish subterminal spot 

 of light grey (almost white) ; on the shoulder a roundish patch 

 of light ashy grey. Tail above like the back, the concealed 

 portions of the feathers blackish at the base, a subterminal spot 

 of ashy grey near the tip, below blackish ashy brown, an ashy 

 white band across the tips ; the lower part of the throat and the 

 chest a large pyriform patch of deep reddish-purple, which 

 towards its outer margin is shaded off to violet, and has a narrow 

 violet border ; the breast and remainder of the under surface 

 yellowish green ; crissum and under tail coverts yellow, the latter 

 with a broad stripe of green on the inner web ; legs ashy-grey, 

 tinged with green above, washed with yellow on the inner side ; 

 bill, yellow ; tarsi and feet, red. Total length, 7*5 to 8 in. ; wing, 

 4.5 to 5 in. ; bill from forehead, 0'7 in., from gape, 0*8 ; tarsus, 

 0*8 in. ; tail, 2*5 in* 



Log. Lango ; Gaudalcanar. 



27. — Ptiloptjs stjperbtts, Temm. 



The only specimen is a 3 T oung male having just attained its 

 full livery. The rich orange red of the nape is separated from 

 the rosy purple of the crown by the green from the ear-coverts 

 and sides of the head ; the chest is of a rich ashy grey, and the 

 band across the breast deep violet — almost black, there is no 



* Cau this be the adult of P. solomonensis, G-. R. Gray, ? I think not ; see 

 Gray's description of the upper surface, and wings &c. 



