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and blighter; sinciput and middle of the lower breast pnrple-red ; 

 crescentic pectoral band yellow on the upper part and white 

 on the lower ; lower abdomen and under tail-coverts green, witli 

 the edges of the feathers more or less yellow; scapulars with bluish- 

 black round spots in the middle ; primaries dark greyish green, 

 with narrow whitish edges ; secondaries and rectrices with narrow 

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

 hand at the end : " bill yellow ; feet dark carmine ; irides yellow "' 

 (D'Albertix). Total length 9"8 inches, wing 5o, tail 2-8, bill 07<>, 

 tarsus 0*9. 



Female. Green ; pilcum and sides of the head deeper and brighter : 

 lower abdomen and under tail-coverts green, with yellow edges ; no 

 purple-red colour on the sinciput and middle of the lower breast ; 

 no crescentic band on the chest and no bluish-black spots on the 

 scapulars. 



Hah. New Guinea. 



a. S ad. sk. Mt. Arfak, N.W. New Guinea. Gould Coll. 



b. J ad. sk. Mt. Arfak, Feb. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 v. r? ad. sic. Doktur, New Guinea, April. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. $ ad. sk. N.W. New Guinea. Gould Coll. 



e. 2 ad. sk. N.W. New Guinea. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 /. S ad. sk. Mt. Owen Stanley. G. Schneider [C.l. 



9, !<■ 6 2 ad. sk. Astrolabe Mts. A. Goldie, Esq. [C.]. 



i, k. <3 2 ft< h s k. S.E. New Guinea (A. Goldie). Tweeddale Coll. 



/, >n. 6 ? ad. sk. S.E. New Guinea (^4. Goldie). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



60. Ptilopus speciosus. 



Ptilopus speciosus, Rosenb. in lift. ; Schley . X. T. D. iv. p. 23 (1871) ; 

 id. Mus. r.-li. Columbse, p. 27 (1878); Meyer, Sitzb. k. Ah. 

 Wissensch. Wien, lxx. p. 12S ( 1874) ; Rosenb. Reist. naar de Geel- 

 vinkb. pp. 117, 143, pi. xv. f. 1 (1875) ; Becc. Ann. Mas. Civ. Gen. 

 vii. p. 715 (1875); Salvad. ibid. ix. p. 197, n. 15 (1876); Gieb. 

 Thea. Orn. iii. p. 368 ( 1877) : Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 564 ; Roicl. 

 Or». Misc. iii. p. 171, pi. 104 (1878) ; Gould, B. of New Guin. pt. ix. 

 pi. 7 (1879) ; Rosenb: Malay. ArcMp. pp. 561, 595 (1879) ; Salvad. 

 Orn. Bap. e Mol. iii. p. 47(1882); Meyer, Abbild. VogelrSkel. 

 t. xxxiii. (1888); Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 658 (Traitor's Is., 

 N. of Jobi): Tristr. Cat. Co'l. B. p. 45 (1889); Salvad. Mem. 

 B. Ac. So. Tor. (2) xlii. p. 5:3 {Agg. Om. Pap. e Mol. p. 17'.)) 

 (1891). 



Adult male. Green, the head and neck brighter: a spot on each 

 side of the forehead, just above the lores but near the eves, purple : 

 On the chest a broad crescentic band of bright yellow, surrounded 

 interiorly by a white band : centre of the breast and abdomen purple- 

 lilac ; lower abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts rich yellow ; 

 WingH greeil : primaries slate-black, narrowly edged with yellow. 



towards the tips greenish grey ; secondaries green, like the hack, 

 and narrowly edged with yellow on the outer web ; wings underneath 

 Mate-grey ; under wing-coverts slightly washed with green and 

 edged with yellow; tail above green, helow grey, with a lighter 



apical band; rectrices with narrow yellow edges: bill blackish, 



