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36. Ptilopus pulchellus. 



Columba pulchella, Temm. PL Col. 564 (livr. 95, 1835); Knip $ 

 Fr6o. J'i(/. ii. pi. 14 (1838-43); Mull. Verh. Land- en VoUcenk. 

 p. 22 (1839-44). 



Ptalinopus pulchellus, Less. Compl. de Buff. viii. Ois. p. 31 (1837) ; 

 Id. 2nd ed. p. 277 (1838 1 ; Eosenb. N. f. N. I. xxv. p. 248, n. 212 

 (1863); id. J.f. O. 1864, p. 132, n. 212. 



Ptilonopus pulchellus, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 466, n. 7 (1844); 

 Sclnt. Journ. Pr. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 107, n. 136 (1858) ; G. R. Gr. 

 P. Z. S. 1858, p. 195 ; id. Cat. B. New Gain. pp. 44, 60 (1859) ; 

 id. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 437 ; Wall. Ibis, 1861, p. 290 ; Rchnb. Tauben, 

 p. 46, sp. 223, t. 236. f. 134 (1862), ii. p. 178 (1862); Finsch, 

 Ken-Gain. p. 177 (1865); Wall. Ibis, 1865 ; p. 378, n. 25 ; id. 

 J.f. 1866, p. 278 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 786 

 (1875) ; Salvad. $ DAlb. Ann. Mas. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 833 (1875) ; 

 IJAlb. Nuova Guinea, p. 585 (1880). 



Ptilopus pulchellus, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 22 (1854) ; id. Compt. 

 Rend, xxxix. p. 878 (1854), xl. p. 216, n. 50; id. Coup d'ceil Ordr. 

 Piff. pp. 9, 54, n. 50 (1855) ; Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Columbae, p. 2 

 (1873); Sousa, Mus. Nac. Lisb. Columbse, p. 8 (1873); Salvad. 

 Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. p. 198, n. 29 (1876), x. p. 158 (1877) ; 

 Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 367 (1877) ; Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 551 ; 

 Rams. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. iii. p. 290 (1878), iv. p. 100, n. 154 

 (1879) ; Rosenb. Malay. Archip. pp. 396, 561 (1879) ; I) Alb. # 

 Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xiv. p. 102 (1879) ; D 'Alb. Nuova 

 Guinea, pp. 582, 588 (1880) ; Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 13 

 (1882) ; Sltarpe, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xvi. p. 445 (1882) ; Rams. 

 Pr. Linn. Soc. X. S. W. viii. p. 28 (1883) (e<rg) ; Nehrk. J. f. 0. 

 1835, p. 34; Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 65; Finsch $ Meyer, 

 Zeitschr. f. ges. Orn. 1886, p. 26; Tristr. Vat. Coll. B. p. 44 

 (1885); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) x. p. 823 (1891); id. 

 Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xlii. p. 51 (Ayg. Orn. Pap. e Mol. p. 177) 

 (1891). 



Cyanotreron pulchellus, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 226, n. 9147 

 (1870) ; Heme $ Rchnw. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 280 (1890) 

 (Ceraui !). 



t Adult male. Front and crown bright carmine, inconspicuously 

 surrounded behind with a yellowish band ; occiput, nape, and 

 entire upper parts bright green ; lores, chin, and throat white ; 

 sides of head and neck, together with the breast, light grey ; lower 

 part of the breast whitish, and then witli a purple-red bar ; sides of 

 the breast yellowish; flanks green ; abdomen orange; vent yellow ; 

 under tail-coverts orange : wings shining green ; inner web of the 

 quills black, the outer web of the secondaries and greater wiDg- 

 coverts very narrowly edged with yellow; first primary abruptly 

 attenuated at the tip; wings underneath grey, the under wing- 

 coverts with narrow yellow edges ; tail above shining green, with 

 the inner web of the lateral feathers, except at the tip, blackish 

 green ; tail below grey, with a lighter apical band : " irides yellow 

 or orange ; bill greenish or yellowish, with the tip yellow ; feet 

 deep carmine " ( W Albertis). Total length 7 - 25 inches, wing 1-25, 

 tail 2-1, bill 0'45, tarsus 0-58. 

 /•'( //«//('. Like the male. 



