8. rxii-orrs. 03 



the neck and breast paler ; feathers of the hreast bifid, with the bases 

 pale olive ; chin and throat pale yellow ; hack, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts green ; central part of the scapulars pink ; centre of the 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts of a beautiful orange, the latter 

 brighter and tinged with rose-colour in the middle ; wings shining 

 green, with a bluish tinge, smaller wing-coverts like the back, 

 secondaries edged with yellow; wings underneath lead-colour : tail 

 green, with a yellow band at the tip : bill greenish, with a lighter 

 tip : feet red. Total length about 9 inches, wing 5-2o, tail '3, 

 bill 0*55, tarsus 0-7. 



Young. "All the upper surface green, slightly tinged with bronze 

 on the wings and tail; the wing-coverts, secondaries, and scapulars 

 margined with yellow; the three or four smaller innermost second- 

 aries (or tertials) having the tips and the whole of the inner web 

 yellow ; except at the base, the primaries narrowly margined with 

 yellow ; tail above bronzy green, the tips of all the feathers ash, 

 washed with green and distinctly margined with yellow ; the under 

 surface is ashy grey, the tips lighter and margined with yellow ; 

 the under tail-coverts and abdomen yellow, the throat pale yellowish : 

 all the rest of the under surface ashy, the tips of all the feathers 

 margined with lii, r ht yellow ; forehead ashy ; the first primary 

 attenuated at the tip. Length 6-5 inches, wing 4 - 8, tail 2-8, tarsus 

 OS. Bill olive ; feet reddish." (Ramsay.) 



Hah. Ugi, Solomon Islands. 



a. Ad. sk. [New Ireland"!, March Godeffrov Museum 



(T. KJeinschmidt). [P.]. 



b, r. tf ad. et $ Ugi, Solomon Is. Tweeddale Coll. 

 juv. sk. 



d. Iinm.sk. Ugi, Solomon Is. (Richards). Salvin-Godtnan Coll. 



18. Ptilopus ponapsnsis. 



Ptilonopus faseiatus?, Finsch (nee Peale), Jour n. Mus. GoAeffr. Ileft 



xii. p. 37 (1876) (Ponape). 

 Ptilonopus ponapensis, Finsch, P. Z. S. 1877. p. 770; Schmeltz, 



Ethnogr. Abth. Mas. G»d<fr. p. 353 (not.-) i 1 -si >. 

 Ptilopus fasciatus (part.), Euiot, P. Z. 8. 1878. pp. 585, 536; Tristr. 



(nee Voir) Cat. Coll. II. p. 44 (1889). 

 rtilopus ponapensis, Schmeltz, Verh. Ver. llamb. 1877 (1879), 



pp. 178. 17!); Finsch, J. f. O. 1880, p. l'OI ; id. P. Z. S. 1880, 



p. 676 : id. Ibis, L881, pp. L13, L15: Wiglesw. Ibis, 1891, p. 583 ; 



id. Arcs Polynes. p. 50, n. L'61 (1891). 



Adult male. Forehead and crown to the occiput deep purple-red, 

 bounded behind by an obsolete narrow yellowish band ; occiput, 

 sides of head, neck, crop, and upper breast greyish green, with the 

 base of the feathers paler along the middle of the throat ; the middle 

 part of the bifid feathers of the crop olive, the base greyish white; 

 lower breast and thighs grass-green ; on the middle ofihe breast a dark 

 blue-green patch, tinged with dark purplt in thi centri ; lower abdo- 

 men, vent, and hind part of the thighs deep yellow : under tail-coverts 



