1 22 TEEEONIDiE. 



Ptilonopua monachus, Sw. Class. B. ii. p. 347 (1837) ; G. B. Gr. 



Gen. B. ii. p. 406, n. 8 (1844) ; Wall, Ibis, 1860, p. 198, 1865, 



p. 378, n. 26; Finsch, Nm-Guin. p. 177 (1865); Wall. J. f. O. 



1866, p. 278 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 786 (1875) ; 



Pelz. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1876, p. 719. 

 Cyanotreron monachus, Bp. Consp. ii. p. 24 (1854); id. Compt. 



Bend, xxxix. p. 878 (1854), xl. p. 216, n. 52 ; id. Coup d'atil Ordr. 



Pig. pp. 10, 54, n. 52 (1855); Bchnb. Tauben, p. 98, t. 229. 



flf. 1314-15 (1862) ; G. B. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 226, n. 9146 (1870) ; 



Sousa, Mus. Nap. Lisb. Columba}, p. 9 (1873) ; Heine Sf Bchnw. 



Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 280 (1890). 

 Ptilonopua (Cyanotreron) monachus, G. B. Gr. P. Z. S. 1860, 



p. 359. 

 Ptilopus monachua, Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Columbre, p. 12 (1873) ; 



Bosenb. Beist. naar Geelvinkb. p. 8 (1875) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. 



Civ. Gen. ix. p. 198, no. 25 (1876) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 366 



(1877) ; Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 550 ; Salvad. P. Z. S. 1879, 



p. 63; Bosenb. Malm/. Archip. p. 417 (1879)'; Salvad. Orn. Pap. 



e Mol. iii. p. 20 (1882) ; Pleske, Bull. Acad. Petersb. xxix. p. 531 



(1884): Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 575; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. 



p. 44 (1887) ; Salvad. Mem. B. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xlii. p. 51 (Agg. 



Orn. Pap. e Mol. p. 177) (1891). 



Adult male. General plumage green, with a golden or bronzy 

 tinge ; pileum, lores, a spot at the base of the lower mandible, 

 and another in the middle of the breast lead-blue ; pileum sur- 

 rounded on the sides and behind with a narrow yellow band ; chin, 

 throat, lower part of the abdomen, and under tail-coverts lemon- 

 yellow ; quills bright green ; secondaries and greater wing-coverts 

 with narrow yellow edges ; wings underneath lead-grey, under 

 wing-coverts with narrow yellow edges ; tail green, below grey, 

 with a slightly paler band at the tip : " bill greenish, irides dark, 

 feet red" {Wallace). Total length 7"2 inches, wing 4, tail 2*4, 

 bill 0-5, tarsus 0-59. 



Female. Differs from the male in having the forehead bluish, 

 gradually changing into the green colour of the hiud part of the 

 head, and no blue patch in the middle of the breast. 



Young. Uniform green (Schleyel). 



Hob. The Ilalniahera group. 



a. cj ad. sk. Gilolo, Halmahera. "Wallace Coll. 



b. d ad. sk. Gilolo (Wallace). Tweeddale Coll. 



c. cS ad. sk. Ternate. Wallace Coll. 



d. $ ad. sk. Ternate (Wallace). Gould Coll. 

 e,f. ? ad. sk. Kaisa Is. Wallace Coll. 

 g. $ ad. sk. Batchian. Wallace Coll. 



h, i. S 2 ad. sk. Batchian. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Jc. 3 ad. sk. Batchian ( Wallace). Gould Coll. 



I. d ad. sk. Batchian. Tweeddale Coll. 



?i. Chloeoteekon. ~ 



' Type. 



Chlorotreron, Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. pp. 4, 22 



(1882) P. humeralis. 



Range. Confined to the Papuan Islands. 



