8. ptilopus. 85 



t". V deep purple patch on the middle of the [p. 103. 



breast ; ab lorn n\ oranjje-yellow roseicapMus, 



f". Xo purple patch on the middle af the breast. 

 //'". Xo vellow band encircling behind the 

 rosy-purple cap ; neck yellowish green, 



with no grey tinge whatever mercieri, p. 110. 



h". A yellow band encircling behind the 

 pink rosy cap; anterior part of the neck 

 and crop tinged with grey at the tips 



i if the feathers tristrami, p. 110. 



''. Chin pale purplish red ; a very broad pectoral 



purple patch huttoni, p. 111. 



12. Ptilopus greyi. 



Ptilopus purpuratus, Bp. (nee Gin.) Consp. Av. ii. p. 19 (1854) 



I Yanikoro). 

 Ptilonopus greyii, G. R. Gr.List B. Brit. Mus. Columboe, p. 4 (1856) 



(Lovalty Isl., Isle of Pines) (deser. nulla); Bp. Icon. Piq. pi. xx. 



(1857) ; G. R. Gr. Cat. B. Trop. Isl. p. 38 (1859) (Erromango) ; 



id. P. '/.. >V. 1859, p. 165 : Jouan, Mem. Soc. Imp. 8c. Nat. Cherb. 



ix. pp. 95, 229 (1863) ; Marie, Aet. Soc. Linn. Bord. xxvii. p. 328 



(1809) ; Tristr. Ibis, 187(5, p. 264 (Aniwa, eggs) ; Marie, Ibis, 



1877, p. 362. 

 Ptilopus gravi, Verr. 8f Des Mur$, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1S60, 



p. 435; Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 364 (1877). 

 Ptilonopus purpuratus, part , Itchnb. Tauben, p. 94 (1862). 

 Ptilinopua purpuratus, part., Iiehnb. op. eit. ii. p. 177 (nee tab.) (1862). 

 Ptilinopus greyi, Finsch ^- Hartl. Orn. Centralpol. p. 126 (1807,) ; 



G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 225, n. 9142 (1870). 

 Ptilopus greyi, Schlep. Mus. P.-B. Columbae, p. 7 (1873); Sou*", 



Mus. Nae. Lisb. Columbae, p. 8 (1873): Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, 



p. 523; E. L. S,- E. L. C. Layard, Ibis, 1878, pp. 261, 275, 280 



Tristr. Ibis, 1879, pp. 191,' 193; Schmeltz, Verb. Ver. Hand,. 



1877 (1879), p. 78; E. L. Sf E. L. C. Layard, Ibis, 1880, p. 2: It 



(eggs), 1881, pp. 133, 139, 1882, pp. 527, 544 ; Schalow, J. f. O. 



18.s7, p. 245; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 44 (1889); Hein. 8f Schnw. 



Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Om. p. 280 (1890); Wiylesw. Ibis, 1891, 



p. 582 ; id. Aces Potynes p. 51, n. 263 (1891). 

 Ptilonopus grayi, Finsch, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 94. 

 Ptilopus apicalis, Rams, (nee Bp.) Pr. Linn. Sue. X. S. If" iii. p. '■','■'•'.) 



(1879) (New Hebrides); E. L. $ E. L. C. Layard, Ibis, L881, 



p. 139. 

 r Ptilinopua fasciatus, Schalow,J.f. O. 1887. p. 245 (Xew Caledonia) 



(young?). 



Adult mule. Upper part of the head purple-rose or magenta, 

 margined posteriorly with yellow; rest of the head, neck, ami 

 breast dull greyish green; hack, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 bronze-green ; chin and throat yellowish : a dull purple patch 

 on the middle of the abdomen ; lower abdomen and vent purple, 

 more or less tinged with orange : under tail-coverts dull rose- 

 colour, with the edgings more or less tinged with yellow: wings 

 shining green, the quills, especially the secondaries, more or less 



