8. niLorus. 99 



G. Ii. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 22-1, n. 9123 (1870; ; Layard, P. Z. 8. 



1877, p. 464. 

 Ptilinopua fa-sciatus, Griiffe (nee Peak), Journ. Mus. Godeffr. Heft i. 



].. 46, t. 7. f. 2 ( L878). 

 Ptilonopus apicalis, Layard, Ibis, 1870, p. 500; id. P. Z. S. 1876, 



p. 495, 1877, p. 464 ;' id. H>i.«, 1878, p. 261. 

 Ptilopua pictiventris, Elliot, Ann. fy May. N. II. (5) i. p. ."549 (1878) ; 



id. P. Z.S. 1878, p. 530, pi. xxxiii.' (Navigators' and Friendly 



Islands !) ; E. L. Layard, P. Z. »S'. 1879, p. 316 ; Schmeltz, Verh. 



Ver. Hamb. Ib77 (1879), p. 178: Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 44 



(1889). 



Adult male. Front and crown rosy purple or magenta, faintly 

 margined posteriorly with yellow ; throat yellowish white ; occiput, 

 neck, and breast greyish green ; flanks green ; a dark purple band 

 separates the abdomen from the breast ; middle of the abdomen tinged 

 with rufous ; lower abdomen and vent yellow ; under tail-coverts 

 yellow, tinged with orange, or even but very faintly with rosy, 

 especially the longer ones ; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts bronze- 

 green ; wings shining green, the (mills with narrow yellow edges ; 

 inner secondaries or tertials with beautiful lilac spots towards the tip ; 

 tail above green, with a broad yellow band at the tip, beneath dark 

 grey, with an apical light grey band tinged with yellow : " iris 

 yellow-buff; bill green-grey: feet purple'" (E. L. Layard). Total 

 length 9 inches, wing 5'3, tail '3-2, bill 0-5, tarsus 0'85. 



Female. Like the male, but the neck and breast, and especially 

 the hind part of the former, greener. 



Young. Almost entirely green : feathers of the back, underparts, 

 and upper wing-coverts broadly edged with yellow ; lower abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts pure yellow. 



" It is not difficult to follow the development of P. fasciatus 

 in its different stages of growth. The young bird is at first (almost ) 

 entirely green, with yellow-tipped feathers below, yellow under 

 tail-coverts, and a grey (sometimes pale yellowish) band at the end 

 of the tail. The magenta feathers of the cap first begin to sprout 

 at the forehead ; soon afterwards the yellow-tipped feathers upon 

 the breast are lost, the orange under tail-coverts and yellow cross- 

 band of the tail are assumed, and the chestnut-red [rufous] of the 

 abdomen begins to make its appearance, when the bird becomes P. 

 apicalis, Bp. The remaining' yellow-tipped feathers of the abdomen 

 are now lost, and the purplish-black band separating abdomen and 

 breast is produced, and the bird shows the plumage of /'. pidivt ntris, 

 Elliot. With the final acquisition of the deep magenta abdominal 

 patch the full dress of the adult /'. fasciatas is Been." i Wiglesworth.) 



This Bpecies differs from the allied ones in having the hand at the 

 tip of the tail yellow, the middle of the abdomen tinged with 

 rufous, and the spots near the tip of the tubals lilac. 



Hal>. All the S;un<>an Islands. 



a. Ad. St. Samoa. Zool. Society's ( 'oil. 



h. Imm.sk. Samoa, Rev. J. B. Stair [P.], 



v. Ad.sk. Samoa. Purchased. 



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