8. TTILOrUS. Ill 



throat greenish grey, feathers of the crop-region greenish with the tips 

 of the feathers grey ; breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts yellow, 

 the latter somewhat brighter ; sides and flanks green ; upper parts 

 below the mantle bright green, with a yellowish tinge upon the 

 latter ; wings the same colour as the back, only brighter ; second- 

 aries margined with yellow, the innermost ones with a conspicuous 

 dark blue spot near the tips and broadly margined with yellow- 

 green ; tail rather deeply furcated, above bright green, with the 

 ends of the feathers broadly tipped with grey, but edged with green 

 at the very tip ; tail below grey, with a broad apical whitish band : 

 " bill horn-green; eye-ring red ; feet dirty purplish " (Garrett, fide 

 FinscJt). Total length about 9 inches, wing 5-4, tail 3-2, bill 0-55, 

 tarsus 085. (Mus. Tristram.) 



This species differs conspicuously from P. mercieri, having, 1st, 

 a well-defined yellow band behind the pink-purple cap ; 2nd, the 

 neck and crop- region tinged with grey ; 3rd, the back more green ; 

 and 4th, the breast of a brighter yellow and sharply defined from 

 the grey crop-region. 



Hub. Hivaoa, Marquesas Islands. 



33. Ptilopus huttoni. 



Ptilonopus huttoni, Finsch, P.Z.S. 1874, p. 92 (with fig. of the 

 head) (Ropa or Opara) ; Eowl. Orn. Misc. i. p. 102 (1875). 



Ptilopus huttoni, Gieb. T/ies. Orn. iii. p. 365 (1877) ; Elliot, P. Z. S. 

 1878, pp. 515, 538; Wigksiv. Ibis, 1891, p. 573 ; id. Aves Polynes. 

 p. 49, n. 257 (1891). 



Adult female. Cap, or forehead and crown, purple-violet-red, as 

 well as a spot at the base of the lower mandible ; chin also violet- 

 red, but paler ; the red cap bordered behind by a darker purple- 

 red band and by an almost indistinct narrow line of green ; below 

 the chin a pale yellow tinge ; occiput, nape, sides of head, neck, throat, 

 and crop greenish grey, the feathers on the throat and crop bifur- 

 cated and dull olive-green at the base, which gives these parts a more 

 grceu appearance ; back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and upper wing- 

 coverts olive-green, the greater ones faintly edged with golden yellow, 

 the inner greater wing-coverts and the inner secondaries or tertials 

 dark green towards the tips, then with an indistinct triangular spot of 

 dull lilac and broadly edged with dull yellowish green : primaries 

 brown, tinged with metallic green on the outer webs ; secondaries 

 bronze-green, with narrow yellow edges ; under wing-coverts grey, 

 washed with green ; under surface of the quills brown ; breast olive- 

 green, with a broad violet-red patch in the middle : lower abdomen 

 and vent pale dull yellow : under tail- coverts violet-red, with the 

 base yellowish ; tail above dark bronze-green, with a very narrow 

 apical margin of yellowish white : under surface of the tail brown- 

 grey : bill in dry skin horny grey, with yellowish tip ; feet pale. 

 but probably purple-red in the living bird ; " eye pink " (Collector's 

 note). Total length about 12 inches, wing 6-8, tail 4-9, bill 0*82, 

 tarsus 1-2. (Turati's Coll.) 



