8. PTILOPUS. 107 



ashy grey, with a lighter band above the end : " feet violet ; eyes 

 orange; bill green at the base, tip yellow" (./. Mosele;/). Total 

 length about 95 inches, wing 5*8, tail 3*1, bill f>48, tarsus 1*1. 



Adult female. Like the male (fide Moseley), but three of the speci- 

 mens mentioned below have the upper part of the head grey, with no 

 lilac tinge ; they are apparently fully adult, and I believe are 

 females. 



Bab. Tahiti, Society Islands. 



a, b. S 2 ad. si. Tahiti. < Challenger ' Expedition [C.l 



c. Ad. sk. Tahiti. Purchased. 



d. Ad. sk. Tahiti. Purchased. 



c. Ad. sk. Society Is. Zoological Society's Coll. 



29. Ptilopus chrysogaster. 



Ptilinopus taitensis, Rchnb. (nee Less.) Syn. Av. Columbariaj, Novit. 



t. 2456. ff. 8525-26 (1851). 

 Ptilonopus chrvsoga9ter, G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1853, p. 48, pi. 54 ; id. 



Ann. \ May. N. II. (2) xv. p. 158 (1855) ; id. List B. Brit. Mm. 



Coluoibae, p. 5 (1856) (Tonga tabou !) ; id. List B. Trop. 1st. p. 36 



(1859); Sc/at. P. Z.8. 1864, p. 9 (Iluaheine, Society Islands) ; 



I'insc/i, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 94. 

 Kurutreron chrysogaster, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 26 (1854); id. Compt. 



Bend, xxrix. p.878 (1854;, xl. p. 217, n. 59 (1855) ; id. Coup d'wil 



Ordr. Pi(j. pp. 10, 55, n. 59 (1855) ; id. Icon. Piq. pi. xxix. f. 2 



(1857) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, iii. p. 225, n. 9132 (1870). 

 Kurutreron chrvsogastra, Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 92, t. 245 b. if. 3525-20 



(1862), ii. p. '176 (1862). 

 Ptilinopus enrysogaster, Hard. §■ Finsc/i, Orn. Centralpolyn. p. 128 



(1867 i ; Graeffe, Journ. Mue. Godefr. i. pp. 48, 50, t. 7. f. 4 



(1873); SchmeUz, Cat. Mue. Godeffr. v. p. x\i (1874). 

 Ptilopus coralensis, Schleg. (nee Peak) Mue. P.-B. Columbae, p. 14 



( part.) (1873). 

 Ptilopus chrvsogaster, Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 362 (18/ 7) (syn. 



emend. ) : EtHot, P. Z. S. 1878, pp. 515, 541 ; Schmeltz, Verh. Ver. 



llnmb. 1877 (1879), p. 179; Salvad. Orn. Pap. <■ Mot iii. ]>. »U 



(1882); Trietr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 43 (1889); Wigleew. Ibis, 1891, 



p. 570; id. Aves Puli/nes. p. 49, n. 253 (1891 ). 



Adult. Front and crown lilac, margined posteriorly with dull 

 greenish yellow ; rest of head, neck, mantle, breast, and flanks 

 greenish grey : throat pale yellow ; feathers of the crop bitid, grey 

 at the tip, and with a concealed middle part olive-greenish ; lower 

 breast and sides olive ; middle of the abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts yellow ; back and wings bronzy grass-green ; primaries black, 

 the outer webs margined with dark green ; secondaries bright green, 

 margined with pale yellow ; under wing-coverts grey, with slight 

 greenish-yellow edges ; quills below lead-grey ; tail above dark bronze- 

 green, with a broad terminal band of yellowish white edged with 

 brighter yellow : tail below grey, with a broad whitish terminal 

 hand : bill black, tip yellow ; feet brown (in dry skin ?). Total 

 length 9 5 inches, wing o~o, tail 3-4, bill 0*6, tarsus 0-8. 



