TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 105 



316137. Adult male. Tataan, Tawitawi Island, Sulu Province, Philippine 

 Islands. November 2, 1891. Collected by Dean C. Worcester and 

 Frank S. Bourns. Received from the Minneapolis Public Library, which 

 acquired it from the Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences, where it 

 was No. 3442 of the Menage Collection. 



Genus PTILINOPUS Swainson 



Ptilinopus furcatus Peale 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm. andOrn.) : 191, "pi. Lii," 1848. 

 =Ptilinopus purpuratus purpuratus (Gmelin). See Salvadori, Catalogue 

 of the birds in the British Museum 21: 105,106, 1893; Ripley and 

 Birckhead, Amer. Mus. Nov. 1192 : 9, 1942. 

 14947. Adult or subadult (sex not indicated). Tahiti Island (lat. 

 17°38'30'' S., long. 149°30' W.), Society Islands, Oceania. Original 

 number 553. U.S. Exploring Expedition ( 1838-1842) . 

 14816. Adult or subadult male. Tahiti Island, Society Islands, Oceania. 

 Received by the National Institute not later than September 13, 1841. 

 Collected by John K. Townsend. 

 Cassin's MS. list shows that he saw only two specimens, but the museum 

 register has four early entries for the species (one of which was not taken 

 by the Exploring Expedition and will receive further mention below) . 



The specimens no longer at hand are Nos. 14827 and 14946; these must 

 be the cotypes now deposited in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia (where No. 13140) and in the Museum of Comparative Zoology 

 (where No. 74426). 



No. 14816 was presented to the National Institute as early as 1841 ; thus, 

 while there can be no proofs adduced, it may easily have formed one of 

 Peale's original series, and for that reason is here listed. 

 Ptilinopus coralensis Peale 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamra. and Orn.) : 190, "pi. Li," 1848. 

 Plilopus smithsonianus Salvadori 



Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum 21: 105, 1893. 

 =Ptilinopus purpuratus coralensis Peale. See Peters, Checklist of birds 

 of the world 3:30, 1937; Ripley and Birckhead, Amer. Mus. Nov. 

 1192: 9, 1942. 

 14929. Adult (sex not indicated). Tuamotu Islands, Oceania. 1839. 



Original number 552. U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). 

 14934. Adult male. Carlshoff Island=Aratika Island (lat. 15°33' S., 

 long. 145°39' W.), Tuamotu Islands, Oceania. September 3, 1839. 

 Original number 552. U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). 

 14951. Adult (sex not indicated). Tuamotu Islands, Oceania. 1839. 



Original number 552. U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). 

 Cassin's MS. list shows that he saw but four specimens, but six were en- 

 tered into the museum register. Of these. No. 14928, from Raraka Island, 



