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am correct in doing so, for in the longer and graduated form of 

 the tail, the central feathers much exceeding the lateral ones, it 

 may be considered necessary to institute a sub-genus of Callip- 

 tilua for its reception. A second specimen of C. stepheni, pro- 

 bably a younger bird, has the green patcli on the side of the 

 fore-neck larger and more irregularly defined, and the vent 

 light green, shaded with yellow like the under tail-coverts. 



Ptilopus insularis, sp. nov. 



Adult. — General colour above, including the wings, dull bronze- 

 green, the apical portion of the outermost primaries blackish 

 brown, slightly glossed with bronze-green, the first primary much 

 attenuated towards the tip, the remainder of the quills with 

 veiy narrow whitish edges on their outer webs, the innermost 

 secondaries externally margined and tipped with dull yellow ; 

 tail bronze-green, approaching a coppery hue on the central pair 

 of feathers, the inner webs of the remainder grey crossed with a 

 subterminal blackish-brown band, which is succeeded by an 

 apical band of light grey, both of these bands being almost 

 obsolete on the outer webs of the feathers ; forehead and crown 

 of the head deep rose-pink ; feathers above the eye and the 

 occiput green, passing into a greyish-green on the hind-neck ; 

 chin and centre of the throat white ; cheeks, sides of the neck, 

 and under surface grey, the feathers on the fore-neck with 

 indistinct whitish centres, those on the centre of the breast 

 broadly tipped with olive-yellow, some of the feathers on the 

 thighs indistinctly tipped with dull green ; vent white ; under 

 tail-coverts white, the apical portion of the longer ones pale 

 } 7 ellow ; under surface of tail grey, with a subterminal blackish- 

 brown and an apical greyish-white band; under wing-covert- 

 grey; "bill, legs and feet crimson-lake; iris rich yellow " 

 (Stephen). Total length, 9-5 inches ; wing, 5-7 ; tail, 4-5 ; bill, 

 0*58 ; tarsus, 1. 



Type. — In the Australian Museum. 



Remarks. — Ptilopus insularis is undoubtedly very closely 

 allied to P. coralensis, as described by Count Salvadbri 1 in the 

 " Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum," and to the 

 "supposed type of Ptilopus coralensis," described by Count 

 Salvadori on the following page under the name of Ptilopn- 

 smithsonianus. From both, however the present species may be 



'Salvadori— Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., xxi., 1S93, p. 104. 



