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deeper yellow, the longer one? tinged with pink and reddish orange 

 towards the tip ; upper surface deep grass-green, the posterior 

 scapulars and the tertials with lilac spots near the tip ; quills slate- 

 black, with dark green tips and outer webs ; innermost primaries, 

 secondaries, and greater wing-coverts with narrow yellow edges ; 

 under surface of the wing grey, but the under wing-coverts with 

 yellowish-green edges : tail-feathers dark grass-green, with a yellow 

 apical band, about - 75 inch broad. Total length about 8 inches, 

 wing 5, tail 2-", bill 045, tarsus - 8. 

 Hub. Ruck group, Eastern Carolines. 



a. Ad. sk. Ruck (Hogoleu), July (Dr. Tweeddale Coll. 



O, Finsch). 



19. Ptilopus hernsheimi. 



Ptilopus hernsheimi, Finsch, J. f. 0. 1880, p. 303 ; id. P. Z. S. 1880, 

 p. 577 ; id. Ibis, 1881, pp. 106, 107, 108 ; Rehnw. % Sckal. J.f. O. 

 1881, p. 75 ; Wiylesw. Ibis, 1891, p. 583; id. Aces Polynes. p. 51, 

 d. 262 (1891). 



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

 surrounded behind by an obsolete narrow yellowish band ; occiput, 

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

 base of the feathers dull yellowish, the middle part of the furcated 

 feathers of the crop olive, the base greyish white ; chin washed 

 with yellowish ; lower breast and thighs grass-green ; lower abdomen, 

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

 deeper yellow, the longest tinged with reddish orange towards the 

 tip ; upper surface deep grass-green ; the posterior scapulars and 

 the tertials with lilac spots near the tip ; quills slate-black, with 

 dark grass-green outer edges and bronzy reflections ; innermost 

 three primaries with narrow yellow edges near the tip ; under 

 surface of the wing grey ; under wing-coverts grey, with yellowish- 

 green edges ; tail-feather3 dark grass-green, with a bright yellow 

 apical band, about 0-9 inch broad : " bill oil-green ; narrow ring 

 round the eyes oil- yellow '' ; irides with an inner ring yellowish 

 brown, and an outer one dirty white ; feet dull purple-red ; tarsus 

 with green feathers " (Finsch). Total length about 8 - 5 inches, 

 wing 5*1, tail 3, bill - 58, tarsus 085. 



Female. " A little smaller ; nape and hind neck duller grey ; 

 lower abdomen darker green ; otherwise like the male. Wing 4'8 

 inches, tail 2"1." (Finsch.) 



This species differs from the allied P. ponapensis in wanting on tirely 

 the bright coloured patch either on the breast or on the abdomen, 

 and in the broader bright deep yellow band at the end of the tail. 



Hab. Kushai or Ualan, E. Carolines. 



a. c? ad. sk. Kushai, Febr. (Dr. O. Finsch). Tweeddale Coll. 



(One of the types of the species.) 



