78 TREK0XID.E. 



underparts yellowish olive, separated from the white breast by a 

 broad black band ; entire upper parts, wings, and tail slate-black ; 

 the latter with an apical dark grey band ; longer under tail-coverts 

 dark grey, the remainder grey on the inner webs, yellowish white 

 on the outer ones, all broadly margined with yellow : " bill ochre- 

 yellow, greenish at base; feet red; iris red" (Wallace). Total 

 length 12-25 inches, wing 6-50, tail 5-5, culmen 0-6, tarsus - 9. 



Female. Like the male, but somewhat smaller. 



Young. Differs from the adult in having the colours less pure, 

 and the feathers of the upper parts (back and wings) tinged with 

 green towards the edges, which are yellow. 



Bab. Timor and Wetter. 



a. Ad. st. Indian Archipelago. Purchased. 



b-q. 3 $ ad. et E. Timor ( Wallace). 



imm. sk. 

 h, i. d 2 a( l- s k- Timor, Jan., April (H. 0. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Forbes), 

 k. Skeleton. Timor. Eyton Coll. 



8. Ptilopus lettiensis. 



Ptilopus ductus lettiensis, Schley. X. T. D. iv. p. 20 (1873) ; id. Mus. 



P.-B. Columbae, p. 35 (1873). 

 Ptilopus lettiensis, Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 572 ; Meyer, Verh. z.-b. 



Ges. Wien, 1881, p. 770 (Luang); id. Zeitsc/ir. f.ges. Orn. 1884. 



p. 213 (Timor Laut) ; Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xlii. p. 54 



(Ayy. Orn. Pap. e Mol. p. 180) (1891). 



Adult. " Head, mantle, throat, neck, and breast ivory-white ; 

 beneath the white of the breast is a broad blue-black band ; lower 

 part of the abdomen and crissum greenish yellow ; under tail-coverts 

 brownish in the centre, rest white, margined with yellow; back and 

 wings black; first primary gradually attenuated to the tip, which 

 is pointed ; rump greenish grey ; tail greyish black for two thirds 

 of its basal part, rest yellowish white : bill green, tip ochre; feet 

 dark red. Total length 11*75 inches, wing 6-25, tail 4-0, culmen 

 0-6." {Elliot.) 



Ilab. Islands of Lettie and Luang to the east of Timor, and 

 Timor Laut. 



9. Ptilopus gularis. 



Columba gularis, Quoy fy Gaim. (nee Wayl.) Toy. Astro!., Zool. i. 



p. 247, pi. 29 (Menado) (1830); Knip fy Prev. Piy. pi. xi. 



(1838-41). 

 Ptilinopus gularis, Less. Compl. de Buff. viii. Ois. p. 39 (1837), 2nd 



ed. p. 279 (1838) ; Bri'tyy. Abh. natuno. Ver. Breni. v. p. 82 



(1876). 

 Carpophaga gularis, G. P. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 409, n. 25 (1844). 

 Leucotreron gularis, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 15 (1854) ; id. Compi. 



Bend, xxxix. p. 876 (1854), xl. p. 216, n. 31 ; id. Coup d'ceil Ordre 



Piy. pp. 8, 54, n. 31 (1855) ; Wald. Tr. Zool. Sec. viii. p. 83 (1872) 



Sousa, Mus. A ; «c. Lisb. Columba?, p. 7 (1873) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. 



