108 TBEBosmae. 



Young. Head grey, -with some pale purple-lilac feathers on the 

 forehead and crown ; occiput green ; an indistinct greenish- yellow 

 hand edges posteriorly the crown and the occiput ; neck and 

 breast greenish grey ; throat pale yellow ; on the breast the 

 yellowish-green base of the feathers shows through the grey tips ; 

 lower breast and abdomen olive-yellow ; under tail-coverts yellow ; 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts bronze-green ; wings shining 

 green, the quills with narrow yellowish edges, the greater upper 

 wing-coverts with broader yellow edges ; tail above green, with the 

 apical pale grey band much narrower than in the adult ; tail beneath 

 dark grej r , with a pale grey apical band. 



Hub. Society Islands — Huaheine and Raiatea. 



a. Ad. sk. [Tahiti.] Purchased. 



( Tvpe of species.) 



b. Ad. sk. [Tongatabu.] Purchased. 



c Ad. sk. Huaheine, Society Is. J. H. Gurney, Esq. [C.]. 



d-g. Ad. sk. Huaheine, Suciety Is. Salvin-Godman Coll.* 



30. Ptilopus roseicapillus. 



Kurukuru, Quoy fy Gaim. Toy. 'Uranie,' Zool. p. 34 (1824) (lies 

 Mariannes). 



* Ptilopus, sp. 



Columba porphyracea, Ford. MS. (part.) (ex Ulietea) ; Wagl. Isis, 1829, 



pp. 742. 743 (var. ex L'lietea). 

 ?Colombe de Taiti, Xcboux, Rev. Zool, 1840, p. 289. 



Columba porphyracra (part.), Font. Descr. An. p. 1(57 (1844) (ex Ulietea). 

 Ptilonopus -, G.R. Gr. Cat. B. Prop. Id. p. 36 (1859) (Ulietea, Society 



Islands). 



" Pileo magis rubente, rostro minus eroceo ; naribus vis rubris, iridibus 

 croeeis; erisso intensius flavo." (Forster.) 



" Latham and Forster mention that in Eaiatea (l'lietea) and in some other 

 islands the crown of the bird is of a darker purple than in specimens from Tahiti, 

 and Neboux [I. c.) speaks of a ' Colombe de r J a it i ' with a violet cap. This may 

 be a different species." (JVigltsworth, 'Ibis,' 1891, p. 571.) 



Ptilopus, sp. 



Columba purpurata (jeune a»e), Temm. Hist. Nat. Pig. i. p. 284 (1813); 



Demi. Diet. 8c. Nat. xl. p. 339 (1826). 

 Columba purpurata, juv., Wagl. Syst. Av. Columba, sp. 30 (1827). 

 Kurutreron oopa, juv., Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 26 (1854). 

 Ptilinopus ?, Hartl. $ Finsch, Orn. Centralpol. p. 132 (1867). 



" Forehead lilac-grey, surrounded with an olive-yellowish band ; occiput, 

 neck, and breast greyish, tinged with dirty yellowish ; wings, back, and tail dark 

 green, slightly shining ; all the wing-coverts edged with ochraoeous colour ; 

 tail with the apical band very narrow, dark grey; abdomen, vent, and under 

 tail-coverts olive, mixed or tinged with greenish grey ; bill grey ; feet fuscous." 

 [Ex Teynminck.) 



It has been supposed that the above description applies to the young of 

 P. purpuratits. Hartlaub and Finsch doubt whether it refers to the young of 

 P. chrysogaster ; but they notice that the ochraceous edges of the wing-coverts 

 are so peculiar as to prevent the bird from being identified with the two 

 mentioned species. 



