8. prn.orus. 77 



ft, I. 6 $ J ad. at. [Timor.] Leyden Museum [P.]. 



in, n, v. Skeletons. Java. Purchased. 



0. Ptilopus albocinctus. 



Ptilinopus albooinctus, Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 490, pi. xxxix. (Flores) ; 



id. Ibis, 1805, p. 377. 

 Ptilopus cinctus Borensis, Schkg. N. T. D. iv. p.20 (1873) ; id. Mus. 



P.-li. Columbffi, p. 34 (note) (1873). 

 Ptilopus albocinctus, Gieb. T/ies. Om. iii. p. 302 (1877); Elliot, 



P. Z. S. 1878, p. 371 ; Meyer, Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1881, p. 771. 

 Leucotreron albocinctus, G. M. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 227, n. 9102. 



Adult. Slat}- black, crown and forcbcad ashy white; throat 

 and cheeks white ; neck and breast ashy, with a narrow edging 

 above and a broad band beneath white ; below this a broad blue- 

 black band on the lower breast ; belly and thighs olive-yellow ; legs 

 ashy ; under tail-coverts ashy, with broad margins to the feathers 

 bright yellow ; tail with a terminal ash-coloured band, which on the 

 underside is nearly white : bill greenish at base, yellow at tip : 

 feet bright red. Total length 12-5 inches, wing G "(the first quill 

 moderately attenuated at the tip), tail 4-75, bill 0-62, tarsus 0-9. 



This species differs from P. cinctus principally in having the 

 neck and breast ashy, and, if the character is constant, in the first 

 primary less attenuated. 



Hah. Flores. 



a. Ad. sk. Flores. Wallace Coll. 



(Type of species.) 



7. Ptilopus cinctus. 



Columba cincta, Snip fy Temm. Pig. i. p. .08, pi. 23 (1808-11): 



Temm. Pig. et Gall i. pp. 245, 466 (1813); Vieill. N. D. xxvi. 



p. 347 (1818); Steph. Gen. Zool. xi. 1. p. 50 (1819)-$ Vieill. Ene. 



Mrth. i. ]). 380(1823); Steph. dm. Zool. xiv. 1, p. 280 (1820); 



Beam. Dirt. Sc. Nat. xl.p. 331 (1820) ; Waul. Sijst. Av. Columba. 



n. 19 (1827). 

 Ptilouopus cinctus, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 407, n. 18 (1844) ; id. 



1MB. Brit. Mus. GaUinse, p. 2 (1844); id. List B. Brit. Mus 



Columbse, p. 8 (1866) ; Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 480 (Timor) ; id. 



Pit'*, 1866, p. 377 ; Pels, a. Lor. Ann. Naturh. Hofmus. iii. p. 47. 

 Leucotreron cincta, Bjk Consp. Av. ii. p. 15 (1864); id. Compt. 



Bend, xxxix. p. 870 (1854 I. xl. p. 210, n. 30 ; id. Coup d\vil Ordr. 



Piii. pp. 8, 54, a. 31 (1855); Behnb. Tauben, p. 103, t. 238 



if. 1328-29 (1862) (Timor); G. Ii. Gr. ll>i„d-h.*t. ii. p. 227 . 



n. 9101 (1870) ; Hartert, Eat. Vogelsamml p. loo (1891). 

 Ptilopus cinctus, Schley. Be Bierent. p. 210(1804); id. N. T. D. 



iv. p. Ill < L878); id. Mus. P.-ll. Columba', p. .".4 (1873) (Timor, 



Wetter); Gieb. Ties. Om. p. 363 (1877) ; Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, 



p.671; Meyer, Verh.z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1881, p. 771. 

 Leucotreron cinctus, Seine >.y Bchnw. Nomencl. Mus. Mem. Om. 



p. 281 (1890). 



Adult male. Head, neck, throat, and entire breast white, with a 

 slight yellow tinge, especially ou the neck and breast; rest of 



