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Coluniba roseicapilla, Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 472 (syn. emend.) (1831) 



(lies Mariannes). 

 Coluniba purpurata, Kittl. (nee Gm.) Kupfertaf. Heft iii. p. 25, 



t. xxxiii. f. 2 (1833) (Ouabain, Marianen Insel). 

 Kurukuru dea Mariannes, Less. Compl. de Buff. viii. p. 33 (1837) • id 



op. tit. 2nd ed. p. 278 (1838). 

 Ptilonopua swainsoni, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 466, n. 6 (part ) 



(1844). 

 Ptilonopus purpureocinctus, G. R. Gr. P. Z. 8. 1853, p. 48, pi. lv. ; 



id. Ann. $■ Mag. X. H. (2j xv. p. 159 (1855); id. List B. Brit. 



Mus. Oolumbffi, p. 4 (syn. emend.) (1856). 

 Kurukuru roseicapilla, Lies Murs 4' Prev. Voy. Venus, Ok. pp. 259 



269 (part.) (1855?). 

 Ptilopus roseieapillus, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 21 (1854) ; id. Compt. 



Mend, xxxix. p. 877 (1854), xl. p. 216, n. 46 (1855), xliii. p. 833 



(1856); id. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 536; id. Leon. Pig. 



pi. xxiii. (1857): Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Coluniba;, p. 8 (1873); 



Sousa, Mus. Nac. Lisb. Colunibse, p. 8 (1873) ; Gieb. Tkes Orn' 



iii. p. 368 (1877) ; Elliot, P. Z. 8. 1878, pp. 516, 537; Oust. Le 



Natural. 1889, p. 261; Wiglesw. Ibis, 1891, p. 584; id. Aves 



Polynes. p. 48, n. 256 (1891). 

 Ptilonopus roseieapillus, G. M. Gr. List B. Trop. Isl. p. 37 (1859) • 



Rchnb. Tauben, p. 96 (1862) ; Finsch, P.Z.8. 1874, p. 94. 

 Ptilinopus roseieapillus, Rchnb. Tauben, ii. p. 177 (1862) ; Finsch 



4- Hartl. Orn. Centralpol. p. 127 (1867) ; G. M. Gr. Hand-list 



ii. p. 225, n. 9119 (1870). 

 Ptilinopus purpuratus, Hartert (nee Gm.), Kat. Vogelsamml. p. 190 



n. 2866 (1891) (Ins. Guabam). 



Adult. Green ; forebead and crown purple-red, margined behind 

 with yellow ; spot at the base of the lower mandible lilac-purple ; 

 upper parts green, with a yellowish tinge : chin and throat whitish • 

 sides of the head and neck greyish green ; breast green, with the 

 feathers of the upper part tipped with pearly grey, and with a dark 

 purple patch on the middle of the lower parts ; abdomen orange, 

 yellowish green along the middle; vent and under tail-coverts 

 yellow, the latter becoming rich orange towards their tips ; wings 

 green, with a glossy appearance ; upper wing-coverts brighter green 

 in the middle ; scapulars and inner secondaries deep blue towards 

 the tip and margined with golden green ; under wing-coverts grey, 

 edged with yellow; quills underneath grey; tail above green with 

 a broad greyish band, tinged with green and edged with vellow; 

 tail below grey: " irides pale yellow; bill and feet black-grey" 

 ( Khilitz). Total length about 9 inches, wing 5, tail 2'8, bill 0-6, 

 tarsus S"5. 



Adult female. Like the male. (Kittlitz.) 



Young. Wants the red on the forebead and crown ; head entirely 

 green ; feathers of the upper parts with yellowish edges ; irides 

 brownish grey. [Kit/litz.) 



Hob. Ladrone or Marianne Islands. 



a. Ad.sk. Marianne Islands ? Major-Gen. Hardwicke [P. J. 



