8. ptilopus. 103 



q. Ail. sk. Savage Isl. Rev. J. Whitmee [P.]. 



r-w. cfad.sk. Wakaia, Fiji Isl., Sept., Tweeddale Coll. 



Dec. (E. L. Layard). 

 x. J ad. sk. Wakaia, Dec. (E. L. Salviii-Godnian Coll. 



Layard) . 

 y. 2 ad. sk. Ovalau, Fiji Isl. F. M. Rayner, Esq. [P.]. 



*, a', c? ad. et £ Mango, Fiji Isl., Dec. Tweeddale Coll. 



juv. sk. (E. L. Layard). 



b' , c. rf ad. sk. Taviimi, Fiji Isl. (Liar- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



det). 



25. Ptilopus rarotongensis. 



Ptilinopus rarotongensis, Llartl. 8f Finsch, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 30 



(Rarotonga) ; Grdffe, Journ. AIus. Godeffr. Heft i. p. 49, t. 2. f. 1 



(1873). 

 Ptilonopus rarotongensis, Finsch, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 94 ; Garrett, 



Ethnoyr. Abtheil. Mas. Godeffr. p. 224 (1881). 

 Ptilopus ckrysogaster (part.), Qieb. T/ies. Orn. iii. p. 362 (1877). 

 Ptilopus rarotono-ensis, Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 534 (part.) ; Sehmeltz, 



Verh. Ver. Hamb. 1877 (1879), p. 178; Wiylesio. Lbis, 1891, 



p. 574 ; id. Ares Polynes. p. 49, u. 256 (1891). 

 ? Ptilopus neglectus, Sahleg. Mas. P.-B. Columbaj, p. 7 (1873) 



(Viti ?) ; Gieb. Thes. Or?i. iii. p. 366 (1877) ; Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, 



p. 524; L'iittik. in Wiylesiv. Ibis, 1891, p. 574 (note). 



Adult. " Front and vertex purplish violet-red, surrounded by a 

 narrow indistinct line of yellow ; occiput, sides of head, neck, crop, 

 and tipper part of breast delicate grey, the feathers of the latter 

 bifurcated and with pale yellow cross band ; chin and middle of 

 throat white, washed with pale yellow ; breast and remainder of 

 underparts yellow, purer on the vent and under tail-coverts, paler 

 on the anal region ; the sides washed with pale greyish green, the 

 same as the feathered tarsus ; on the middle of the lower portion of 

 the breast a large spot of dark purplish red ; back and upper parts 

 vivid grass-green ; primaries and their coverts on the outer web 

 and end brilliant dark green, with a very narrow but distinct white 

 margin, the inner web black ; secondaries also dark green, but 

 with a somewhat broader yellow margin along the outer web ; 

 coverts of the secondaries dark green, narrowly margined extern- 

 ally and at the end with yellow ; larger shoulder-coverts brilliant 

 dark green, broadly margined at the end with grass-green ; wing 

 beneath ashy grey ; under wing-coverts delicate grey like the 

 neck ; tail dark green with a broad greyish-white end ; the feathers, 

 except the two middle ones, are on the inner web dark grey, 

 crossed above the white end by a blackish cross band ; the white 

 end is margined narrowly with pale yellow ; tail beneath dark grey, 

 at the end broadly white : bill plumbeous, tipped with pale horn- 

 colour ; feet reddish brown: nails dark: ' irides yellow; bill 

 brownish yellow; legs purple-red' (Garrett). Total length 8 

 inches, wing 5, tail 3-1, bill 0'52, tarsus 0T1| (!).'' (Hartlaub $ 

 Finnch.) 



