112 TRERONID.E. 



The only known specimen of this species is in Turati's collection, 

 and I have to thank Count Emile Turati (the son of my lamented 

 friend, the late Count Ercules Turati) for having allowed this rare 

 specimen to be sent to London to enable me to describe it. It 

 belongs to the group of species with the violet-red spot at the base 

 of the lower mandible, but it is easily distinguished from the allied 

 species by its pale purplish-red chin and the very broad pectoral 

 patch of dark purple-violet. Its size is very large, and its bill con- 

 spicuously long. 



Hah. Island of Eapa or Opara, Austral Group (274° S. lat. and 

 144° W. long.). 



y. Lajiprotreron. 



Type. 

 Lamprotreron, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 17 (18-54) P. superbus. 



Range. From Celebes, through the Moluccas and the Papuan 

 Islands to Australia. 



Key to the Species. 



A broad dark blue band, more or les9 tinged with 

 green, across the breast ; females with a blue 

 or purple-red occipital spot. 



a. The dark blue band across the breast well 



defined both anteriorly and posteriorly ; occi- 

 pital spot of the female dark blue supierbus, p. 112. 



b. The dark blue band across the breast not well 



defined anteriorly, where it merges into the 

 violet tinge of the upper breast ; occipital 

 spot of the female purple-red and extended 

 over the vertex temmincki, p. 115. 



34. Ptilopus superbus. 



Columba superba, Temm. # Knip, Pig. p. 75, pi. 33 (1808-11) ; Temm. 



Pig. et Gall. i. pp. 277, 474 (1813); Vieill. N. D. xxvi. p. 358 



(1818) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. xi. 1, p. 64 (1819) ; Vieill. Enc. Meth. i. 



p. 381 (1823) ; Desm. Diet. Sc. Nat. xi. p. 337 (1826) ; Wayl. Syst. 



Av. Columba, sp. 32 (1827) ; Less. Tr. d'Om. p. 472 (1831) ; Mull. 



Verh. Land- en Volkenk. pp. 22, 109 (1839-44). 

 Columba cyanovirens, Less. Voy. Coq., Zool., Atlas, pi. 42. f. 1 (1826) 



( 2 ) ; Desm. Diet. Sc. Nat. xl. p. 343 (1826) ; Less. Voy. Coq., Zool. 



i. 2, p. 713 (part.) (1828) ; id. Man. d'Om. ii. p. 169 (part.) (1828) ; 



Wayl. Isis, 1829, p. 740 ; Less. Tr. d'Om. p. 471 (1831); Prev.Sf 



Knip, Pig. ii. pi. 8 (1838-43). 

 rtilinopus superbus, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. 1, p. 279 (1826); Less. 



Compl. de Buff., Ois. viii. p. 37 (1837), 2nd ed. p. 279 (1838); 



Echnb. Voy. Neuholl. p. 318, n. 418 (1850) ; Hartl. Arch. f. 



Naturg. 1852, 1, p. 134; Bams. Pi: Linn. Soc. JV. S. W. i. p. 374 



(1876)*, ii. p. 195, n. 515 (1877) ; id. Tab. List, p. 17, n. 529, p. 30 



(1888) (Tasmania!); Hartert, Kat. Voyelsamml. p. 190 (1891). 



