8. ptilopus. 129 



Ptilopus aurantieollis (err ore), Sckleg. Mug. P.-B. Colunibre p J 8 

 (1873) ; Rosetib. Mala,/. Arc/up. pp. 872, 396 (1879) 



Ptilopus . aurantiifroiis, Meyer, Sitzb. k. Alt. Wissensch. Wien, xlix. 

 p. 608 (18/4); Sahad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. p 197 n 21 



™5 p- v-c pp ^i 03 ' 29 ° (1878) ' iv - p- 100 ' n - 15 * ^ 1879 ); 



Elhot, P. Z & 1878, p. 556; D'Alb. 8f Salvad. Ann. Mm. Civ. 

 Gen. xiv p. 117 (1879; ; D'Alb. Kuova Guin. pp. 310, 588 (1880) : 

 Sahad Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 28 (1882); Finsch ft. Meyer, 



t f t !'^J eS - P'? 1 - 1886 ' P- 2(j ( Milne Bav > J Tristr. Cat. Coll.B. 



p. 43 (1889) ; Sahad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xlii. p. 51 {Ana. 



^ Orn. Pap. e Mol. p. 177) (1891). K JJ 



Ptilopus aurantiifrous, var. novae guineas, Meyer, Sitzb k Ak 



Wissensch. Wien, xlix. p. 509 (1874). 



Adult male. Green ; forehead and lores orange, rest of the head 

 green, with a yellowish tinge ; chin and throat white ; neck and 

 crop ash-colour ; upper back grey, each feather edged with orange- 

 green ; rest of the back, rump, upper tail-coverts, breast, and 

 abdomen green, with a yellowish tinge ; crissum and under tail- 

 coverts yellowish white, the latter with green stripes on the inner 

 web ; wings green ; quills with a slight bluish tinge ; secondaries 

 and greater wing-coverts with narrow yellow edges on the outer 

 web ; median upper wing-coverts and scapulars green, with grev 

 round spots near the tip : wings below lead-colour, the under win- 

 coyerts slightly tinged with green ; tail above green, with a greyish 

 apical band tinged with green, below grey with a lighter apical 

 band: "bill yellow at the tip, purple-red at the base; feet pale 

 purple-red ; iris orange " (Beccari). Total length about 9 inches, 

 wing 5-25, tail 2o, bill 0-62, tarsus 0-75. 



Female. Like the male. 



Yomuj. Has the grey collar tinged with green, and the green 

 feathers of the underparts with yellowish edges. 



J I ah. Aru Islands, New Guinea, Jobi, Eatanta, Salawatti, and 

 Jlysol. 



a, b. S 2 ad. 8k. Aru Island.. Wallace Coll. 



Jtfad.sk. Arulslands. Wafe^" 



i , S \ Salawatti ( Wallace). Gould Coll. 



e. cf ad. sk. Salawatti, July (Rosenberg). Tweeddale Coll. 



„ O ,f\ v""'?"'^ • Sal vin-Godman Coll. 



A 9 li i- v ^^'^ (iul .Tv Salvin-Godman Coll. 



A. ? ad. ak. Port Moresby, S.E. New Guinea Salvin-Godman Coll 

 [A. Goldie). 



49. Ptilopus wallacei. 

 Ptilonopus wallacei, G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1858, pp. 185, 195, pi. 136 

 (Aru M.) : „/. Cat. 11. New Guin. pp. 45, 60 (1859); id. P. Z S 

 L801, p. 43, : Rehnb. Tauben, ii. p. 17s ( L862) ; Rosenb X T X I 

 xxv. p. 248, n. 213 (1863); id. J. f. O. 1864. p. 182, n 218 ^ 

 Im*cA . V,< -G,ii„. v . 177(1865); Wall. Ibis. 1n;5, p . 380,0.88;' 



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