114 TBEK0NID.5:. 



1885, pp. 574, 657 (Myscl) ; Rams. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. 



p. 1151 (1887) (ecrrr); Grant, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 199; Tristr. Cat. 



Coll. B. p. 45 (1889) ; Salvad.' Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) ix. p. 586 



(1890) ; Be Vis, Ann. Rep. Brit. New Guin.-p. 62 (1890) ; id. Colon. 



Papers, n. 103. p. 116 (1890) ; id. Ibis, 1891, p. 40; Salvad. Ann. 



Mus. Civ. Gen.' (2) x. pp. 828, 833 (Goodenough I.) (1891) ; id. Mem. 



R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xlii. p. 50 (Agg. Orn. Pap. e Mol.f. 176) (1891). 

 Ptilopus superba, Rosenb. Riis naar Zuidoostereil. p. 81 (1867) (Kei). 

 Lamprotreron porphyrostictus, Gould, Ann. § Mag. N. H. (4) xiii. 



p. 137(2) (1874). 

 Ptilinopus (Lamprotreron) porphyrostictus, Rains. Pr. Linn. Soc. 



N. S. W. ii. p. 208 (1877). 

 Lamprotreron superbus, Rams. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 114 ; Cab. fy Rchnw. 



J.f. O. 1876, p. 326 (Neii-Hannover) ; North, Descr. Cat. Nests Sf 



Eqqs Austr. B. p. 269 (1889); Heine Sf Rchnw. Nomencl. Mus. 



Hein. Orn. p. 281 (1890). 

 Ptilopus porphyrostictus, Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 362 (1877). 

 Ptilopus swainsoni, part., Sharpe, Rep. Yoy. l Alert ^ p. 26, specim. c 



(1884). 



Adult male. Pileum purple-violet ; occiput and sides of the head 

 olive-green ; sides and back of the neck bright rufous ; back, rump, 

 upper tail-coverts, scapulars, and wing-coverts green, with an olive 

 tinge ; scapulars, inner greater wing-coverts, and inner secondaries 

 with deep blue spots near the tip ; smaller wing-coverts near the 

 bend of the wing deep blue : quills black, primaries with narrow 

 outer yellow edges ; secondaries and greater wing-coverts green on 

 the outer web and edged with yellow ; chin and greater part of the 

 cheeks pale grey ; breast grey with the base of the feathers purple ; 

 below the breast a broad black band, more or less tinged with blue 

 or green ; abdomen white ; flanks green, with two white bands ; 

 under tail-coverts white, with a longitudinal green spot on the inner 

 web and tinged with pale yellow at the apical edge ; under wing- 

 coverts greyish green ; quills underneath dark grey ; tail above 

 green, with a greyish-white band at the tip ; tail below dark grey, 

 with a white band at the tip : " bill olive-green, with the tip 

 yellowish ; feet rose-colour ; irides yellow " (D'Alhertis). Total 

 length 10-22 to 8-45 inches, wing 5-38 to 4-91, tail 3-22 to 2-63, 

 bill 0-62 to 0-55, tarsus 0"74 to 0-66. 



Adult female. Upper parts, including the pileum and hind neck, 

 green ; a deep blue spot on the occiput ; blue spots on the scapulars 

 and inner secondaries less distinct than in the male : no blue patch 

 on the smaller wing-coverts near the bend of the wing ; lower part 

 of the throat and breast grey and green, without the purple colour 

 at the base of the feathers ; no transverse black band below the 

 breast. 



The specimens from Amboyna are the largest, and have a broader 

 pectoral black band. 



Hah. Moluccas, Papuan Islands, and also Northern Australia. 



Mr. Ramsay includes also Tasmania among the localities inhabited 

 by this species. I am not acquainted with the authority for that 

 statement. 



