74 



TKEROXIDiE. 



with dark green ; secondaries with a pale narrow creamy border, 

 still narrower on the major coverts : ' iris Hark hazel ; bill dull 

 greenish orange; feet pale reddish' {Everett). "Wing 5 - 25 inches, 

 culmen 075, tarsus 0-81, tail 3-75." (Tweeddale.) 



Nab. Philippines — Luzon, Zebu, Leyte, Mindanao, and Basilan. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Philippine Is. Cuming Coll. 



(Types of species.) 

 c. Ad. sk. Manilla. Gould Coll. 



d,e,f. S $ ad. sk. Luzon, Jan. (A. B. Meyer). Tweeddale Coll. 

 y, h, i. J $ ad. sk. Cebu, April (A. H. Everett). Tweeddale Coll. 

 h, I. 3 2 ad. sk. Cebu, April {A. H. Everett). Salvin-Codman Coll. 

 m. J ad. sk. JButuan, May {A. H. E.). Tweeddale Coll. 



w. $ juv. sk. Butuan, May (A. H. E.). Tweeddale Coll. 



(Type oi Ptilopus incognita, Tweedd.) 

 or. 3 ad. et J £ Zamboanga, March, April Tweeddale Coll. 



imm. sk. (A. H. E.). 



s. c? ad. sk. Basilan, June {A. H. E.). Tweeddale Coll. 



2. Ptilopus fischeri. 



Ptilinopus fischeri, Briigg. Abh. naturw. Ver. Brem. v. p. 82, t. iv. 



(1870) (Celebes). 

 Ptilopus fischeri, Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 571 ; Meyer, Ibis, 1879, p. 135 



(part., N. Celebes); Meyer, Ibis, 1881, p. 170 (part., N. Celebes). 



Adult male. Above metallic green ; upper part of the head pale 

 grey ; round the hind neck a band of slaty black, joining the dark 

 crimson patches on each side of the head, which cover the ear- 

 coverts and the feathers below and in front of the eyes ; throat 

 white, slightly tinged with yellowish ; neck and upper breast grey ; 

 mantle grey, slightly tinged with green in the middle ; lower breast 

 and abdomen washed with olive-yellowish ; under tail-coverts whitish 

 buff, with the greater part of the iuner webs greyish olive ; wings 

 metallic green ; outer web of the secondaries edged with yellow ; 

 primaries black, slightly tinged with metallic green and very 

 narrowly edged with yellow on the outer webs ; wings underneath 

 slate-grey ; tail above metallic green, below grey, with a broad 

 apical grey band : " iris brown ; bill greenish, with the tip yellow ; 

 feet cherry-red " (Platen). Total length about 14 inches, wing 63, 

 tail 5*5, bill 064, tarsus 095 (Mus. Brunswick-). 



Female. Similar to the male (Mus. Brunswick). 



Young. The grey of the head and of the neck tinged with green, 

 no black band on the nape ; the crimson patch on the sides of the 

 head scarcely apparent ; edges of the secondaries pale yellowish 

 (Mus. Brunswick). 



Hah. Minahassa, N. Celebes. 



3. Ptilopus meridionalis. 



Ptilopus fisheri, Meyer, Ibis, 1879, p. 135 (part., S. Celebes) ; Gould 

 (nee Briiyg.), B. of Neiv Guin. pt. xi. pi. 4 (1880) ; Meyer, Ibis, 

 1881, p. 120 (part., S. Celebes). 



Leucotreron iischeii meridionalis, Meyer $■ Wiglesw. Orn. Monatsb. 

 i. p. 12 (1893). 



