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44. Ptilopus jobiensis. 



Ptilopus humeralis (part.), Schleg. N. T. D. iv. p. 25 (1871). 

 Ptilopus humeralis jobiensis Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Columbse, p. 16 



(1873). 

 Ptilonopus jobiensis, Becc. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 715 (1875) ; 



id. Ibis, 1876, p. 253 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. viii. p. 404 



n. 45 (1876). 

 Ptilopus jobiensis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. p. 198, n. 23 



(1876);' Bowl. Orn. Misc. ii. pp. 340, 342, 348, pi. 67 (1877); 



Meyer in Bowl. Orn. Misc. ii. p. 342 (1877) ; Sclat. $ Salv. Ibis, 



1877, p. 482 ; Salvad. Atti B. Ac. Sc. Tor. xiii. p. 321 (1878 : Ta- 



rawai) ; Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 548 ; Salvad. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 63 ; 



id. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 24 (1882). 



Adult. General plumage shining green, with the bead more or 

 less bronzy ; middle of the abdomen rich orange ; Tent and under 

 tail-coverts yellowish white, the latter with a green spot on the inner 

 web ; wings green, quills darker, shining, and with a bluish tinge ; 

 secondaries and greater wing-coverts with narrow yellow edges ; 

 smaller and median wing-coverts, scapulars, and inner secondaries 

 lilac-grey, with broad green edges ; near the bend of the wing a 

 lilac-grey patch ; wings underneath lead-colour ; under wing-coverts 

 slightly tinged with green ; tail bright green above, dark grey 

 beneath, with an apical white-grey band : bill apparently greenish, 

 with a yellow tip, and with the base above red ; feet red. Total 

 length 7-8 inches, wing 4-6, tail 2-1, bill 0-48, tarsus 0-62. 



Female. Differs f'rcm the male in having the head green, with no 

 bronzy tinge, and the median wing-coverts with no grey tinge in 

 the middle (Mus. Civ. Genoa). 



This species differs chiefly from P. humeralis in having no purple 

 on the smaller wing-coverts near the bend of the wing. 



Hah. Jobi and northern coast of New Guinea as far east as 

 Tarawai. 



45. Ptilopus iozonus. 



Ptilonopus iozonus, G. B. Gr. P. Z. S. 1858, pp. 186, 195; id. Cat. 



B. New Guinea, pp. 46, 60 (1859) ; id. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 437 ; Wall. 



Ibis, 1865, p. 378, n. 22 ; Finsch, Neu-Guin. p. 177 (1865) ; Wall. 



J. f. O. 1866, p. 278; Sharpe, Journ. Pr. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiii. p. 503 



(1877), xiv. p. 688, n. 45 (1879). 

 Ptilinopus ionozonus, Bchnb. Tauben, ii. p. 178 (1862). 

 Jotreron iozona, Bosenb. N. T. N. I. xxv. p. 249, n. 220 (1863). 

 Jotreron iozonus, Bosenb. J.f. O. 1864, p. 132, n. 220. 

 Philopus (errore) iozonus, Bosenb. Beis naar Zuidoostereil. p. 50 



(1862). 

 Ratnphiculus iozonus, G. B. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 227, n. 9151 



(1870). 

 Ptilopus jozonus, Schleg. N. T. D. iv. p. 25 (1878) ; id. Mus. P.-B. 



Columbse, p. 17 (1873). 

 Ptilonopus ionozonus, Salvad. $■ D'Alb. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. 



