132 treeonidj:. 



the nostrils purple ; feet purple ; irides yellow " (2)' Albert is), or 

 " coral-red or grey, with an outer ring golden red " (Loria). 



Female. Like the male. 



Bab. South-eastern New Guinea. 



a. Ad. sk. S.E. New Guinea (A. Goldie). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



52. Ptilopus perlatus. 



Columha perlata, Temm. PI. Col. 559 (livr. 94, 1835) ; Knip $ Prtv. 

 Pig. ii. pi. 21 (1838-43) ; Mull. Verh. Land- en Volkenk. p. 22 

 (1839-44). 

 Ptilinopus perlatus, Less. Com.pl. de Buff. iii. Ois. p. 31 (1837): id. 



op. cit. 2ud ed. p. 277 (1838). 

 Ptilonopus perlatus, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 466, n. 10 (1844) ; 

 Sclat. Journ. Pr. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 167, n. 134 (1858) ; G. R. Gr. 

 P. Z. S. 1858, pp. 185, 195 (part.) ; id. Cat. B. Neiu Guin. pp. 47, 60 

 (part.) ; id. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 437 (part.) ; Wall. Lbis, 1865, p. 380, 

 n. 32 (part.) ; Finsch, Neu-Guin. p. 177 (part.) (1865) ; Wall. J.f.O. 

 1866, p. 279, n. 32 (part.). 

 Sylphitreron perlata, Bp. Consp. ii. p. 40 (1854) ; id. Compt. Rend. 

 xl. p. 217, n. Ill ; id. Coup uVceil Ordr. Pig. p. 55, n. Ill (1855) ; 

 Rchnb. Tauben, p. 110, n. 264, t. 230. ff. 1312-13 (1862) ; Rosenb. 

 N. T. N. L. xxv. p. 249, n. 234 (part.) (1863) ; id. J. f. O. 1864, 

 p. 133, n. 234 (part.). 

 Carpophaga perlata, Bp. in litt.Jide Bp. Consp. ii. p. 40 (1854). 

 Megaloprepia perlata, Bp. Compt. Re?id. xxxix. p. 1077 (1854) ; 



id. Coup d'ail Ordr. Pig. p. 18 (1855). 

 Sylphidsena perlata, Bp. fide G. R. Gr. Cat. Gen. $ Subgen. Birds, 



p. 97 (1855). 

 Svlphidoena perlata, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 227, n. 9153 (part.) 



"(1870); Hartert, Kat. Vogelsamml. p. 190 (1891). 

 Ptilopus perlatus, Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Columbse, p. 17 (part.) (1873) ; 

 Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. p. 197, n. 16 (1876), x. p. 157 

 (1877); Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 366 (part.) (1877); Elliot, P. Z.S. 

 1878, p. 557 (part.) ; Salvad. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 64 ; Rosenb. Malay. 

 Arehip. pp. 396, 561 (1879) ; D'Alb. Nuova Guin. p. 582 (1880) ; 

 Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 35 (1882) ; Nehrk. J. f. O. 1885, 

 p. 34; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 44 (part.) (1889) ; Salvad. Mem. R. 

 Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xlii. p. 52 (Agg. Orn. Pap. e Mol. p. 178) (1891). 

 r Ptilopus perlata (sic), Rams. Pr. Linn. Soc. X. S. W. iii. p. 77 

 (1878). 



Adult male. Green, with a bluish tinge on the upper parts; head 

 vellow-olive ; throat white ; a collar round the nape grey ; scapu- 

 lars and middle wing-coverts with rose-coloured spots in the centre ; 

 crop and upper breast brown-olive ; lower breast and abdomen 

 green ; vent pale yellowish green ; under tail-coverts yellowish 

 white, with the inner web dull green, and greyish towards the 

 base ; quills bluish green, the first primary slightly narrowed at 

 tip; under surface of the wings lead-colour; under wing-coverts 

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

 with an apical brighter band : " bill green-yellow ; feet purple ; 

 irides with an inner ring yellow, and an outer one carmine " 

 (UAlbertis). Total length 11 to 1125 inches, wing 6-25, tail 3 25, 

 bill 0-74 to 0-59. 



