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TREROHmaE. 



under surface of the wings light grey ; flanks and vent white 

 mingled with green ; under tail-coverts buffy white, with long 

 narrow green dashes along the middle, changing into grey towards 

 the base ; smaller wing-coverts along the cubital edge and bend of 

 the wing slate-grey ; rest of the smaller wing-coverts yellowish 

 green like the back ; quills slate-black ; median and greater wing- 

 coverts and secondaries broadly edged with yellow ; tertials and 

 longer scapulars grey; central tail-feathers yellowish green, next pair 

 yellowish green on the outer web, grey towards the base of the inner 

 web, whitish at the tip, before which there is a black spot ; remaining 

 tail-feathers grey at the base, with a broad greyish-white band at the 

 tip, and a black band about the middle ; tail below grey at the base, 

 and with a broad apical white band, and a narrower black band 

 about the middle: " iris orange-buff ; bill pale greenish, bluish at 

 the base ; orbits bare, blue and greenish ; feet purple " ( Wallace). 

 Total length 12-5 inches, wing 6-5, tail 4 - 25, bill O08, tarsus O'O. 



Female. Like the male ( Wallace), but a specimen of this sex from 

 Semao has the edges of the median and greater wing-coverts and of 

 the secondaries paler, yellowish white. 



Hob. Timor and Semao. 



a. Ad. st. Timor. Leyden Museum [P.I. 



b. c. Ad. sk. Timor. J. B. Jukes, Esq. [P.J. 



d. r? ad sk. Timor Coupong ( Wallace). Gould Coll. 



e. 3 ad sk. E. Timor. Wallace Coll. 



/. 9 ad. sk. Timor, April (H, O. Forbes). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



<j. $ ad. sk. Semao. Wallace Coll. 



14. Osmotreron floris. 



Treron floris, Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, pp. 486, 496 (Flores and Solor) ; 

 id. Ibis, 1865, p. 376; id. J. f. O. 1866, p. 277; Schleg. N. T. D. 

 iii. p. 212 (18C6) (Sumbawa) ; G. li. Or. Hand-list, ii. p. 222, 

 n. 9083 (1870) ; Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Columba3,p. 59 (1873) ; Gieb. 

 Thes. Dm. iii. p. 651 (1877) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. P. -p. 45 (1889). 



Similar to 0. psittacea, but smaller, and with the crown tinged 

 with grey, paler on the forehead, and with the white under tail- 

 coverts crossed by narrow zigzag green bands ; the tertials and 

 longer scapulars olive like the back, with no grey tinge ; the yellow * 

 edges on the wings paler : " bill greenish lead-colour, with the tip 

 yellowish; orbits bare; feet red" (Wallace). Total length 1T5 

 inches, wing 6, tail 4 - 3, bill 0-65. 



Female. Differs from the male " in the rather duskier back and 

 more gTeen spotted under tail-coverts " ( Wallace). 



Bab. Flores, Solor, aud Sumbawa. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Flores. Wallace Coll. 



(Types of species.) 



c. Ad. sk. Flores. Wallace Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Flores ( Wallace). Tweeddale Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. Flores ( Wallace). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



f. Ad. sk. Flores ( Wallace). Seebohm Coll. 

 '</. Ad. sk. Solor Wallace Coll. 



