G. OSMOTRERON. .", 



1 2. Osmotreron teysmani. 



Trevon fceysmannii, SoMeg. Not. Leyd. Mus. i. p. 103 (1879) (Sumba 

 or Sandalwood Isl.); Rchnio. u. Schal. J. f. O. 1879, p. 425. 



Adult. "Front, throat, rump, and upper tail-coverts greenish 

 yellow ; underpart of body yellowish green ; the middle pair of 

 tail-feathers yellowish olive; the other tail-feathers greyish at the 

 hase, passing into a large band of dark bluish grey, while more 

 than the last third of these feathers is of a greyish-white colour, 

 which spreads also over the upperside of the other tail-feathers, 

 but decreases towards the outer feathers ; under tail-coverts green, 

 very broadly margined with fulvous yellowish white ; crown and 

 sides of the head, neck, small wing-coverts, shoulder-feathers, and 

 mantle green with a greyish hue, with the exception of the hinder 

 part of the mantle and the hinder shoulder-feathers, which are 

 both of a brownish red, inclining to purple ; quills black, but the 

 tertiaries washed with green; middle wing-coverts black, very 

 broadly margined with lemon-yellow, like the tertiaries ; great 

 wing-coverts with somewhat smaller (edges) and primaries with 

 very small yellow margins; entire underside of the wing bluish 

 ashy grey " {Sclih-gel). " Wing 6-4 to (3-8 inches, tail 4-2 to 4-5, 

 tarsus 1, bill 0-8 " {BUttikofer in litt.). 



" This species is very closely allied to 0. psittacea from Timor, 

 but it may at once be distinguished by the vinous colour of the 

 scapulars and lower mantle, as well as by the more yellow, instead 

 of ijreen, face " (Buttikofer in lift.). 



Hih, Sumba or Sandalwood Island. 



13. Osmotreron psittacea. 



Columba psittacea, Temm. §■ Knip, Pig. i. p. 28, pi. 4 (1808) (Timor) ; 



Temm. Hist. Nat. Pi'/, i. pp. 47, 440 (1813) ; Vieill. X. 1). xxvi. 



1>. 3!U (ISIS) : /,/. Enc. Mcth. i. p. 884 (1823): Desm. Did. Sc. 



Nat. xl. p. 365 (1826). 

 Vinago psittacea, Steph. Gen. Zool xi. 1, p. 112 (1819); Cut: liiqn 



An. 2nd ed. i. p. 4!>2 (1829). 

 Treron psittacea, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. 1, p. 274 (1826) : G. R. Gr. 



Gen. B. ii. p. 467, n. 6 (1844) ; Echnb. Si/ti. Av. Novit. (. 3368 



(1851) (ex Temminch); Bp. Cup. Av. ii.p. 10(1864) ; id. Qnnpt. 



Rend. xl. p. 216, n. 18 ( L855) : id. Coup d'adl Ordr. Pit/, pp. 5, 54. 



n. 18 (1855); a. 11. dr. List B. Brit. Mus. ( iolumbffi, p. 12 (1856) ; 



Rehnb. Tauben, i. p. 108, t. 240/;. f. 3368 (1862); Wall. P. /.. .s. 



L863, pp. 486,496; id. Ibis, 1865, p. 375: id. ./. f, o. 1866, p. 277 ; 



Schleg. X. /'. D. iii. p. 212 (1866) ; G. R. Gr. liand-li<t. ii. j>. 222. 



n. 9084 (1870); Sehleg. Mus. p.-p. Columbffl, p. 59 (1878) i Timor. 



Semao); Gieb. Thes.Orn. iii. p. 662(1877); Peh. $ Lor. Arm. 



Naturh. Hofmus. iii. p. 46 (1888); Eartert, Kit. Vogelsamml. 



p. 191(1891). 

 Treroa psittacina, Wagl. 8yd. Av. Columba, Bp. t (1827). 

 Oamotreron psittacea, Bp. Com/>t. Rend, xliii. p. 833 | L856). 



Adult male. Yellowish green, with a faint tinge of greyish on the 

 mantle ; wings and upper tail-coverts a little brighter ; sides and 



