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Ptilopus johannis, Rams, (nee S'clat.) Pr. Linn. Soc. 2V. S. W. vi. 

 p. 724 (1881), vii. p. 3!) (1882) ; Nature, vol. xxv. pp. 282, 355 

 (1882). 



Adult male. General plumage green ; forehead rich purple-lilac, 

 extending above the eyes and on to the lores ; scapulars with sub- 

 terminal spots of purplish black ; cbiu and throat greyish green ; 

 on the chest a broad crescentic band of bright yellow ; centre of the 

 breast and abdomen purple-lilac ; sides of the body and flanks 

 green ; thighs green, edged with yellow internally ; lower abdomen, 

 vent, and under tail-coverts rich yellow : wings green, primary 

 coverts and quills blackish, externally dark grass-green, the pri- 

 maries washed with dull greenish grey ; outer secondaries with a 

 narrow fringe of yellow ; wings underneath slaty grey, the under 

 wing-coverts washed with green; tail above green, the lateral tail- 

 feathers grey at the base and near the end of the inner web, with a 

 broad subterrninal band of blackish ; tail below dark grey, with an 

 apical light grey band : " bill lead-colour ; iris bright yellow ; fee 

 dark cherry " (Richards). Total length 8 - 5 inches, wing 4-75, 

 tail 2-75, bill 0-65, tarsus 0-85. 



Female. General colour green : no purple-lilac colour on the fore- 

 head and on the chest and abdomen and no crescentic yellow baud 

 on the breast : lower abdomen and under tail-coverts rich yellow ; 

 wings and tail as in the male : " bill black ; legs red ; iris yellow "' 

 ( Woodford). 



Ifab. Solomon Islands — San Cristoval, Guadalcanal 



a. $ ad. sk. Solomon Id., Aug. J. Brenchley, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of species.) 



b. 2 ad. sk. Solomon Is. Tweeddale Coll. 



c. d. t$ J ad. sk. San Cristoval, Aug. (G. E. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Richards) . 

 e. $ ad. sk. Ugi. Tweeddale Coll. 



X. Spilotreron. m 



Type. 

 Spilotreron, Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. pp. 4, 51 



(1882) P. melanocephalus. 



"Range. From Java, Flores, and Lombock, through Celebes and 

 Ceram, to the Sanghir Islands and the Philippines. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Smaller ; wing 4'0-4 - 71 inches. 



a'. Black occipital spot broad; lower part of 

 the abdomen yellow. 

 a". Gular spot pale lemon-yellow. 



«'". Gular spot narrower melanocephalus, p. 142. 



b'". Gular spot broader bangueyensis, p. 143. 



b" . Gular spot yellow-orange melanospilue, p. 144. 



b' . Black occipital spot narrower ; gular spot 

 yellow-orange; lower abdomen deeper 

 orange than in the above species chri/sorrhout, p. 144. 



b. Larger; wine 6*18 to 6*34: occipital black 



spot broad ; gular spot lemon-yellow ; 



lower abdomen deep orange vanthorrhous, p. 145. 



