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TRKRONTDJE. 



green, with narrow whitish edges ; secondaries and rectrices with 

 narrow yellow edges ; tail above green, below dark grey, with a 

 light grey band at the end : bill and naked skin of the lores yellow ; 

 feet dark purple : " irides yellow " (D'Albertis), or " red saffron " 

 (Beccari). Total length 9*25-8-8 inches, wing 4-8, tail 3T5, 

 bill 0-66-0-59, tarsus 0-86-0-78. 



Female. Bronze-green, deeper and brighter on the pileum, differing 

 from the male in wanting the cresceutic white-yellowish band on 

 the chest, the red-purple colour on the sinciput and middle of the 

 breast, and the black spots on the scapulars. 



Specimens from Buru have more yellow on the under tail- 

 coverts, which sometimes are wholly of this colour, approaching 

 P. rivolii. 



Hub. Western Papuan Islands — Ke, Mysol, Koffiao, Salawatti, 

 Batanta, Waigiou, Guebeh, Gagie, Jobi, Mafoor, and Traitor's Islands 

 (Geelvink Bay) ; the Moluccas — Dammar, Weeda Island, Khoor, 

 Tejoor, Matabello, Monawolka, Poulo-Padjang, Goram, Amboyna, 

 and Bouru. 



a. $ ad. sk. Ke Isl. Wallace Coll. (Type 



of species.) 



h. rf ad. sk. K6 Isl. ( Wallace). Gould Coll. 



c S ad. sk. Ke" Isl., July (H. 0. Forbes). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. d ad. sk. Mysol. Wallace Coll. 



e ; f- 6 2 ad. sk. Mysol. Tweeddale Coll. 



g. (S ad. sk. Jobi. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



h, i, k. J J ad. sk. Matabello Isl. Wallace Coll. 



I, m. 2 sk. Matabello Isl. ( Wallace). Gould Coll. 



n. <3 ad. sk. Bouru ( Wallace). Gould Coll. 



o. d ad. sk. • Bouru, Nov. (II. O. Forbes). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



p. c? imm. sk. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



q. § imm. sk. [Java.] Purchased. 



59. Ptilopus bellus. 



Ptilonopus bellus, Sclat. F. Z. 8. 1873, pp. 696, 698, pi. lvii. ; Becc. 

 Ann. Mus. Cio. Gen. vii. p. 715 (1875) ; Salcad. ibid. p. 786 

 (1875). 



Ptilopus bellus, Meyer, Sitzb. k. Akad. Wissensch, Wien, Ixx. p. 128 

 (1874); Sakad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. p. 197, n. 14 (187ii), 

 x. p. 157 (1877) ; Oust. Bull. Soc. Fhilom. Paris, 1877, 

 p. 55 ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 362 (1877); Roiol. Orn. Misc. iii. 

 p. 171 (1878) ; Rams. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. iii. p. 291 (1878) ; 

 Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 563 ; Salmd. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 66 ; Gould, 

 B.ofNeic Guin. pt. ix. pi. 8 (1879) ; D'Alb. Nuova Guin. pp. 77, 582 

 (1880) ; Rams. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. viii. p. 27 (1883) (nest and 

 eggs) ; Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 658 ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 43 

 (1889); De Vis, Ann. Rep. Brit. Netv Guin. p. 62 (1890); id. 

 Colon. Papers, n. 103, p. 116 (18U0) ; id. Ibis, 1891, p. 40 ; Salvad. 

 Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xlii. p. 53 (Agg. Orn. Pap. e Mol. 

 p. 179) (1801). 



Ttilopus patruelis, Meyer, Zcitschr.f.ges. Orn. 1886, p. 27, Taf. vi. 

 (S.E. New Guinea). 



Adult male. Bronze-green ; occiput and sides of the head deeper 



