90 TRERONID.E. 



Ptilinope de Dupetit-Thouara, Ilombr. $ Jacq. Toy. Pole Sud, pi. 2D. 



f. 1 (1841). 

 Ptilouopus purpuroleucocepbalus, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 407, n. 24 



(1844). 

 Ptilouopus leucoceplialus, G. R. Gr. List Gallince Brit. Mus. p. 2 



(1844). 

 Ptilinopua emilire, Less. Echo du Monde Savant, 1845, p. 873. 

 Ptilonopus dupetitthouarsi, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. iii. App. p. 23 (1849); 



id. List B. Brit. Mas. Columbse, p. 5 (1856); id. Cat. B. Trop. 



Isl. p. 36 (1859). 

 Ptilinopua dupetit-thouarsi, Marti. Arch.f Nature/. 1852, 1, p. 135; 



Jacq. $ Packer. Voy. Pole Sud, iii. p. 114, pi. 29. f. 1 (1853); 



Marti. J. f. O. 1854, p. 1 70 ; Finsch fy Marti. Orn. Centralpol. 



p. 129 (1867) ; Finsch, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 94, 1877, p. 410 ; Garrett, 



Ethnogr. Ahtheil. Mas. Godeffr. p. 238 (1881). 

 Thouarsitreron leucocephala, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 16 (1854); id. 



Compt. Rend, xxxix. p. 876 (18541, xl. p. 216, n. 32 (1855) ; id. 



Coup d'oeil Ordr. Pig. pp. 8, 54, n. 32 (1855) ; id. Icon. Piy. pi. 17 



(1857). 

 Kurukuru dupetit-tbouarai, Des Murs §• Frio. Voy. Venus, Zool. 



pp. 241, 268 (nee pi. 7) (1855 ?). 

 Thouarsitreron diipetittbouarsii, Rchnb. Tauben, p. 93. t. 240. f. 2587 



(1862) : G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 226, n. 9135 (1870); Soma, 



Mas. Nac Lsh. Columbse, p. 7 (1873). 

 Ptilopus dupetit-thouarsii, Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Columbse, p. 13 (1873) ; 



Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 363 (1877); Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, pp. 512, 



539; Schmeltz, Verh. Ver. Hamb. 1877 (1879), p. 179; Tristr. 



Ibis, 1881, p. 251 ; Sale. Cat. B. Strickl Coll. p. 555 (1882) ; Tristr. 



Cat. Coll. B. p. 44 (1889) ; Wiglesw. Ibis, 1891, p. 569. 

 Terenotreron dupetit-thouarsi, Heine Sf Rchnw. Nomencl. Mas. Hein. 



Orn. p. 280 (1890). 

 Ptilopus petit-thouar^i, Wiglesw. Aves Polynes. p. 48, u. 248 (1891). 



Adult. Top of head whitish, surrounded faintly with a yellowish- 

 green narrow band ; anterior part of the cheeks whitish ; throat and 

 spot in front of the eye pale yellow; neck and upper part of back 

 greyish green ; feathers of the breast yellowish olive, tipped with 

 greyish green ; underparts olive, becoming yellower on the abdomen 

 aud pure yellow on the under tail-coverts ; in the middle of the 

 breast a rosy patch, surrounded with dull orange ; back and wings 

 green, with a yellow cast ; primaries blue-green, secondaries and 

 greater wing-covcrts bright green, edged with yellow ; larger sca- 

 pulars aud tertials with large deep blue subapical spots and edged 

 with golden green ; under wing-coverts greenish grey ; quills below 

 grey; tail above bright green, below grey, with a broad apical pale 

 yellow band : " bill horn-green ; eye-ring bright red ; feet pale red " 

 (Garrett). Total length about 9 inches, wing 5-9, tail 3 - 4, bill - 45, 

 tarsus 0"9. 



Hah. Marquesas Islands — Christina, Nukahiwa. 



a. Ad. sk. Marquesas Is. Gould Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Marquesas Is. Purchased. 



c. Ad. sk. Marquesas la. Sir E. BelcLer [P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Nukahiwa, Marquesas Is. Purchased. 



