8. ptiloits. 



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jS. Pxilopus. _ 



Type. 



Ptiliuopus, Sui. Zoo/. Jotirn. i. p. 473 (1825) P. swainsoni. 



Ptilonopus, Stv. Class. B. ii. p. 347 (1837) P. purpuratus {?). 



Ptilopus, Klrivkl. (nee Schonh. 1826) Ann. § May. 



N. II. vii. p. 85 ( 1841) (= Ptilinopus). 

 Kurukuru, lies Murs $ 1'rec, Voy, de la Venus, 



Zool. p. 220 ( 1855 ?)* P. purpuratus. 



Thouarsitreron, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 16 (1854) .... P. dupetit-thouarsi, 



Kurutreron, Up. Consp. Av. ii. p. 10 (1854) P. purpuratus. 



Ptilotreron, Jip. 1854 (teste G. R. Gr. Cat. Gen. 



Sf Stibgen. B. p. 97, n. 1642, 1855) P. purpuratus. 



Curotreron, Heine, Namencl. Mus. Ilein. Om. 



p. 280 (1882-90) (= Kurutreron, Bp.). 

 Terenotreron, Hvine,l. c. (= Thouarsitreron, Bp.). 



Range. Australia, Eastern Austro-Malay Archipelago, and Poly- 

 nesia. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Xo purple-red spot at the base of the lower mandible. 

 a'. Under tail-coverta in adult birds purple-red. 

 a''. Colour of the back, wings, and tail green. 

 a'". Middle of the abdomen purple-red; feathers 

 of the lower throat and crop-region with no 



purple-red colour 



b'" . Middle of the abdomen with no purple-red ; 

 feathers of the crop-region with dark purple- 

 red colour in the middle hidden part. 

 « 4 . Lower breast and abdomen orange-yellow. 

 b*. Lower breast and abdomen not orange- 

 yellow, but pale yellowish 



//'. Colour of the back yellowish ; upper wing- 

 coverts and tail-feathers light grey, with 

 yellowish edges ; a broad purple-red band 

 across the back and upper wing-coverts .... 

 V '. Under tail-coverts orange or yellow, more or less 

 deep, or even very pale. 

 c". Top of the head or cap whitish or pale grey, 

 with no red or purple tinge. 

 c'". Top of the head or cap whitish ; scapulars 

 and tertials with dark blue spots near the 

 tip; tail-band broad, of a yellowish white. 

 d". Top of the head or cap grey. 



C*. Scapulars and tertials with dark blue spots 

 near the tips ; subapical tail-band grey 



and rather narrow 



(/'. Scapulars and tertials with rosy spots near 

 the tips ; apical tail-band broad, of a pale 



yellow 



(/". Top of the head or cap purple-red or pale 

 lilac. 



greyi, p. 85. 



[p. 6. 

 peleicc nsis, 



[p. 87. 

 perousei 5 > 



perouset'd , p. 87. 



[p. 89. 



dujietit-thouursi, 



p. 91. 

 xanthogatter, 



riehardsi, p. 92 



* The genus Kurukuru is mentioned by Bonaparte (Consp. Av. ii. p. l'.i in 

 1854, so that the date of the ' Voyage de la Vtuus ' must be earlier than lto4. 



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