128 TKEE0NIDJ5. 



Ptilopus tannensis, Wiylesw. Ibis, 1891, p. 581 ; id. Apes Poh/nes. 



p. 47, n. 247 (1891). 

 Ptilonopus tannensis, G. R. Gr. fide Wiylesw. Ibis, 1891, p. 581 



(in syn. P. tannensis). 



Adult male. Deep green ; head, chin, and throat yellowish 

 green ; lower abdomen yellowish ; under tail-coverts yellowish 

 white with green longitudinal spots on the inner webs ; smaller 

 upper wing-coverts with white-grey spots near the tips ; inner 

 secondaries or tertials and their greater or inner wing-coverts with 

 large yellow apical spots ; under wing-coverts grey, tinged with 

 green ; under surface of the quills dark grey ; first primary much 

 attenuated at the tip in some specimens, while in others it 

 gradually tapers to a point ; tail green above with a suhterminal 

 grey band, underneath dark grey with a lighter grey apical band : 

 " iris buff ; bill green ; legs maroon "' (E. L. Layard). Total length 

 about 10 inches, wing 6 - 25, tail 3 - 25, bill 0-8, tarsus # 9. 



This bird in many respects — short tail with a grey band at the 

 tip, under tail-coverts with green elongated spots on the inner webs, 

 and smaller wing-coverts spotted with grey — approaches the species 

 of the subgenera Spilotreron and Chlorotreron, and especially P. 

 aurantiifrons, near which I am disposed to place it, although the 

 first primary, much attenuated towards the tip, is not, as in the 

 species of those subgenera, abruptly emarginated on the inner web. 



Hah. New Hebrides — Tanna, Mallicolo, Erromango, Vate, Am- 

 bry m. 



a. S a< i- sk. Port Resolution, Tanna, Aug. Macgillivrav [C.l 



b. Ad. sk. Tanna. Prof. R. Collett [P.]. 



c. $ ad. sk. Vate" Isl. (E. L. Layard). Tweeddale Coll. 



d. S ad. sk. Vate Isl., Sept. (E. L. Salvln-Godman Coll. 



Layard). 

 e,f. <5 ad. sk. Ambrjm, N. Hebrides, June Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 (E. L. Layard). 



48. Ptilopus aurantiifrons. 



Ptilonopus aurantiifrons, G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1858, pp. 185, 195, 



pi. 137 (Aru Isl.) ; id. Cat. B. New Gain. pp. 45, 60 (1859) ; id. 



P. Z. S. 1861, p. 437 ; Rclmb. Tauben, ii. p. 178 (1862) ; Rosenb. 



N. T. N. I. xxv. p. 248, n. 215 (1863) ; id. J. f. O. 1864, p. 132, 



n. 215 ; Finsch, Neu-Guin. p. 177 (1805) ; WaU. Ibis, 1865, 



p. 380, n. 34; id. J. f. O. 1866, p. 279; Wall. Malay Archip. ii. 



p. 290 (1869) ; Becc. Ann. Mm. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 715 (1875) ; 



Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 972 (1875), ix. p. 42 (1876); 



D'Alb. Sydn. Mail, 1877, p. 248; id. Ann. Mm. Civ. Gen. x. 



pp. 18, 20 (1879) ; Sharpe, Journ. Pr. Linn. Soc., Zuol. xiii. 



p. 503 (1877), xvi. p. 688 (1879); If Alb. Ntwva Guinea, p. 585 



(1880). 

 Philopus (sic) aurantiifrons, Rosenb. Reis naar Zuidoostereil. p. 50 



(1867). 

 Sylphidcena auranticollis (errore), G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 227, 



n. 9155 (1870). 



