110 TREKONID.E. 



31. Ptilopus mercieri. 



Kurukuru mercierii, Des Murs Sf Prev. Voy. Vintts, Orn. p. 206 



(1855 ?) (type examined). 

 Ptilopus mercieri, Bp>. Consp. Av. ii. p. 22 (1854) ; id. Compt. Rend. 



xxxix. p. 877 (1854), xl. p. 216, n. 47 (1855) ; id. Coup d , oeil Ordr. 



Tig. pp. 9, 54, n. 47 (1855) ; id. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 833 (1856) ; 



id. Icon. Piy. pi. xxii. f. 2 (1857) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 366 



(1877) ; Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 536 (part.) ; Tristr. Ibis, 1881, 



p. 249 ; Wiqlesw. Ibis, 1891, p. 569 (part.) ; id. Aves Polynes. p. 48, 



n. 249 (part) (1891). 

 Ptilonopus niercieri, G. R. Gr. List B. Trop. Isl. p. 36 (1856) ; Rchnb. 



Tnuben, p. 96 (1862) ; Finsch, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 94. 

 Ptilicopus mercieri, Finsch § Hartl. Orn. Centralpol. p. 128 (1867) ; 



G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 225, no. 9129 (1870). 



Type. Entire upper part of head and occiput and a broad spot at 

 base of the mandible deep rosy purple ; no yellow band borders behind 

 the rosy-purple cap ; nape, mantle, sides of neck, throat, and breast 

 pale yellowish green ; abdomen and flanks greenish yellow ; crissum 

 and under tail-coverts bright yellow ; back and upper tail-coverts 

 olive-green, with a yellowish tinge upon the latter ; wings same 

 colour as the back ; primaries black, shaded with very dark green 

 upon the outer webs, the first abruptly and greatly attenuated ; 

 secondaries black on the inner webs, dark green on the outer, 

 and margined with yellow, the innermost ones with a conspicuous 

 blue-black spot near the tips and margined broadiy with yellow- 

 green ; rcctrices dusky grey at base, with the outer -webs green and 

 the apical third very light yellow. Total length 9 inches, wing 

 575, tail 3 - 2, culmen OS, tarsus OS. (Mus. Paris.) 



This species is very conspicuous for the great extension of the 

 purple-red cap, which covers also the occiput. 



Hah. Kukahiwa, Marquesas Islands. 



32. Ptilopus tristrami. 



Ptilinopus mercieri, Finsch (nee I)es Murs fy Prevost), P. Z. S. 1877, 



p. 410 (Marcpiesas, Garrett) ; Schmeltz, Mus. Godeffr. Cat. vii. 



p. 14 (1879) ; id. Ethnoyr. Abth. Mus. Godeffr. p. 238 (Hivaoa or 



Dominica, Marquesas Isl.) (1881). 

 Ptilopus mercieri, part., Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 536 ; Schmeltz, Verh, 



Ver. Hanib. 1S77 (1879), p. 179 (Marquesas, Garrett) ; Tristr. Cat. 



Coll. B. p. 44 (Marquesas Isl.*) (1889) ; Wiglesio. Ibis, 1891, p. 569 



(part.); id. Aves Polynes. p. 48, n. 249 (part.) (1891). 

 Ptilopus tristrami, Salvad, Bull. Mus. Zool. ed Anat. Comp. Univ. Tor. 



vii. n. 135 (1892). 



Adult. Entire upper part of head and a conspicuous spot at the 

 base of the mandible deep pink-rosy ; from above the eye the cap is 

 margined behind by a broad band of bright yellow ; nape greyish 

 green ; chin and throat yellowish white ; sides of the neck and lower 



* Canon Tristram mentions Nukahiwa as the island where Garrett collected ; 

 but this is a mistake, as Schmeltz distinctly says that it was Hivaoa. 



