330 TRERONID-E. 



Pkilopus (errore) wallacei, Bosenb. Beis naar Zuidoostere.il. p. 50 



(1867). 

 Plilopus wallacei, Bosenb. Heis naar Zuidoostereil. p. 81 (Kei lsl.) 



(3867) ; Schleg.Mus.P.-B. Columbse, p. 18 (1873); 8a.had.Ann. 



Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. p. 197, n. 20 (1876) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. 



p. 369 (1877) ; Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 555 ; Rosenb. Malay. 



Arckip. p. 372 (1879) ; Salvad. Ann. Mas. Civ. Gen. xiv. p. 658 



(1879); id. Orn. Pap. e Mot. iii. p. 30 (1882); S/iarpe, in Gould's 



B. New Guin. pt. xv. pi. 9 (1883) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1883, pp. 51, 



195, 200; Meyer, Sitzb. u. Abh. Ges. Ms, 1884, Abh. i. p. 50; 



Forbes, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 433 ; Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 658 ; 



Biittik. Not. Leyd. Mus. viii. p. 66 (1886) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. 



p. 45 (1889) (Larat) ; Salvad. Mem. B. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xlii. 



p. 52 {Agg. Orn. Pap. e Mol. p. 178) (1891). 

 Sylphidoena wallacei, G. B. Gr. Hand-l. ii. p. 227, n. 9154 (1870). 

 Pcecilotreron wallacei, Heine §• Bchnw. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. 



p. 281 (1890). 



Adult male. Pileum blood-red ; cheeks aud throat white ; ear- 

 coverts tipped with yellowish green ; neck aDd breast pure grey ; 

 feathers of the upper back, scapulars, and median wing-coverts 

 grey, edged with greenish orange ; middle of the back dull orange ; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts yellowish green ; a white band across 

 lower part of breast, succeeded by a broad one of deep orange ; 

 abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts light yellow, the latter 

 striped with green on the inner webs ; sides of breast, flanks, and 

 thighs green ; wings green ; the primaries bright green with a 

 bluish tinge ; first primary gradually, but not abruptly, attenuated 

 at the tip ; secondaries and greater wing-coverts outwardly edged 

 with yellow ; smaller wing-coverts dull orange ; under surface of 

 the wing and axillaries grey ; tail above yellowish green, with a 

 broad, paler, apical band, nearly white on the inner web ; tail 

 below grey, with a broad apical white band : " bill yellow ; feet 

 red " ( Wallace) ; " iris carmine, changing into yellow in the inner 

 ring" (Beccari). Total length about 10 inches, wing 6, tail 3 - 25, 

 bill 0-05, tarsus 0-85. 



Female. Liko the male. 



Young. Upper part of the head olive-green, tinged with red ; 

 wing-coverts and scapulars broadly edged with yellow ; shoulders, 

 or smaller wing-coverts, obsolete!}" yellow-orange ; white pectoral 

 band also obsolete. 



Bab. Aru and Ke Islands, Timor Laut and Babbar. 



a, b. c? $ aa ' s k. Aru Islands. Wallace Coll. 



(Types of species.) 



c. c5 ad. sk. Aru Islands. Wallace Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Gould Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. [New Guinea.] Salvin-Godinan Coll. 

 ft 'J- d 2 a( h s k- Timor Laut, Aug., Sept. H. O. Forbes, Esq. 



[Li. j. 



It, >'■ 6 ? ad. sk. Timor Laut, Aug., Sept. (H. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



O. Forbes), 

 k (5 ad. sk. Timor Laut, Aug. (H. O. F.) Tweeddale Coll. 



