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TliERONID.l-:. 



mandible, chin, and middle of rhe throat pale yellow ; grey feathers 

 of the upper breast bifid, with the base yellowish ; breast orange- 

 yellow, with a grey patch in the middle ; flanks and thighs greenish ; 

 abdomen and vent yellow ; under tail-coverts orange-yellow : wings 

 glossy green, smaller and median wing-coverts with golden-green 

 edges, the greater ones and secondaries with yellow edges ; scapulars 

 and inner secondaries deep blue towards the tip and edged with 

 yellow ; under wing-coverts grey, slightly edged with yellow ; quills 

 underneath dark grey; tail above green, with a broad pale grey 

 apical band tinged with green, and narrow edges to the feathers ; 

 tail below grey, with a whitish apical band : " bill olive-green ; 

 feet pale olive" (Wallace); "iris pale olive" (von Rosenberg). 

 Total length about 9 inches, wing 5, tail 3 - 14, bill Ool, tarsus 

 0-74. 



Home specimens from Timor Laut are indistinguishable from 

 others from Banda, having the same grey colour on the head and 

 neck, with no yellowish or greenish tinge, which, when present, 

 probably denotes young age. 



I have never seen specimens from Lettie, but, according to 

 Dr. Meyer, who has examined two specimens from there, neither of 

 them has the top of the head pure white-grey ; one has it slightly 

 tinged with violet, and the other with bluish grey ; it seems to me 

 therefore that they require comparison. 



Hab. Banda, Khoor, Ke, Tenimber Islands, and Lettie. 



a. Ad. sk. Banda Is. E. Wilson, Esq. [P.]. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Banda Is. Wallace Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Damma Is., Banda Sea, P. W. Bassett Smith, 



Nov. Esq. [P.]. 



d. e. cJJad.sk. Larat, Timor Laut, July, II. 0. Forbes, Esq. 



Aug. [0.]. 



f, f/, h. cJ 5 a d- s k- Timor Laut, Aug., Sept. Tweeddale Coll. 

 (II. O. Forbes). 



17. Ptilopus richardsi. 



Ptilopus richardsi, Rams. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. \i. p. 722 (1881) ; 



Nature, vol. 25. pp. 282, 355 ; Saload. Ann. Mas. Civ. Gen. xviii. 



p 427, n. 1 (1882) ; id. Om. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 554 (1882) ; Earns. 



Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. vii. p. 39 (1882;; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1883, 



p. 348 ; Rchnw. fy Schal. J.f. O. 1883, p. 405 ; Sharpe in Gould's 



B. of New Guin. pt. xviii. pi. 3 (1884); Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. 



Tor. (2) xlii. p. 50 (Agg. Om. Pap. e Mol. p. 176) (1891). 

 Ptilopus rhodostictus, Tristr. Ibis, 1882, pp. 139, 144, n. 74, pi. v. ; 



Rams. ibid. p. 473 ; id. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. vii. p. 4-'! 



(1882) ; Rchnw. # Schal. J. f. O. 1883, p. 405; Tristr. Cat. Coll. 



B. p. 45 (1889). 



Adult male. Top of the head pale grey, slightly tinged with 

 vinaceous, and surrounded posteriorly with a narrow yellowish-green 

 band ; lores and anterior part of the cheeks grey, like the top of the 

 head ; hind neck greenish yellow, with a greyish tinge, remainder of 



