142 TREEONID.E. 



63. Ptilopus melanocephalus. 



Tourterelle de Batavia, D'Aubent. PI. Enl. 214. 



Turvert, part., Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. ii. p. 555 (1771). 



Columba indica, Mull, (nee Linn.) S. N. Suppl. p. 133, n. 35 e 



(1776; ; Cass. Pr. Acad. Philad. 1864, p. 248. 

 Coluniba melanocephala, Forster, Zool. hid. p. 16, t. vii. (1781) 



(Java); Gm. S. N. i. p. 781, e. 54 (1788); Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. 



p. 610, n. 59 (1790) ; Bonn. Enc. Meth. i. p. 237 (1790) ; Ternm. 



§• Knip, Pi<j. p. 69, pi. 30 (1808-11) ; Temm. Pig. et Gall. i. pp. 263, 



470 (1813) ; Vieill. N. D. xxvi. p. 376 (1818) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. 



xi. 1, p. 55 (1819) ; Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 182 (1821) ; 



Desm. Diet. So. Nat. xl. p. 334 (1826); Waql. Si/st. Av. Columba, 



sp. 33 (1827); id. Lsis, 1829, p. 741; Less. Tr. d!Orn. p. 471 



(1831). 

 Black-capped Pigeon, Lath. Syn. ii. 2, p. 654, n. 50 (1783) 

 Ptilinopus melanoeepbalus, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. 1, p. 279 (1826) ; 



Less. Compl. de Buff., Ois. iii. p. 26 (1837), 2nd ed. p. 276 (1838) ; 



Hartl. Syst. Verz. Brem. p. 97 (1844) ; Blyt.h, Cat. B. Mm. 



A. S. B. p. 230, n. 1394 (1849) ; Hartert, Eat. Vogehamml. Mm. 



Senkenb. p. 190 (part.) (1891). 

 Ptilonopus melanocephalus, G. P. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 467, n. 22 



(1844) ; id. List B. Brit. Mus. Gallinre, p. 1 (1844) ; id. List 



Spec. B. Brit. Mus. Columbfe, p. 6 (1856) ; Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, 



p. 486 (Lombock, Flores) ; id. Ibis, 1865, p. 381 (part,). 

 Jotreron melanocephala, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 24 (1854) ; id. Compt. 



Rend.s.xx\x. p. 878 (1854), xl. p. 217, n. 54; id Coup d'osil Ordr. 



Pig. pp. 10, 55, n. 54 (1855) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. 



p. 671 (1875); Hein. § Itchmo. Nomencl. Mus. Ilein. Orn. p. 280 



(1890). 

 lonotreron melanocephala, Bchnb. Tauben, i. p. 100, t. 237. if. 1318- 



19 (1862), ii. p. 180 (Sumatra!) (1862). 

 Ptilopus melanocephalus (part.), Schleg. De Dierent. p. 210 



(1864); id. N. T. D. iii. p. 207 (1866); id. Mus. P.-B. Columba;, 



p. 28 (part.) (1873) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 365 (part.) (1877) ; 



Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 551 ; Nichols. Ibis, 1881, p. 154 ; Salv. 



Cat. B. Strickl. Colt. p. 555 (1882) ; Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. 



p. 444 (1889) ; Vorderm, N. T. N. I. xliv. p. 225 (1884), xlvi. 



p. 23 (1886) ; Mei/er, J.f. O. 1891, p. 70 ; Vorderm. N. T. N. I. 



Ii. p. 400 (1892); Elliot, Auk, 1892, p. 81. 

 Iotreron melanocephala (part.), G. P. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 226, 



ii. 9141 (1870) ; Wald. Tr. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 83 (1872); Soma, 



Mus. Nac. Lisb. Columba?, p. 9 (1873) ; Tweedd, Orn. Works, 



p. 183 (part.) (1881). 

 Jotreron melanauchen, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 671 



(1875) (Flores); Meyer, Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1881, p. 766 



fSumba). 

 Ptilopus melanauchen, Meyer, J.f. O. 1891, p. 70 : Elliot, Auk, 1892, 



p. 81. 



Adult male. Green ; head and neck ashy ; occiput and back of 

 neck black ; chin and throat pale lernon-yellow ; vent and short 

 under tail-coverts yellow, long ones carmine; primaries black on 

 inner web, green on outer ; first primary slightly scalloped and 

 narrowed at tip : " edge of the eyelids light yellow ; irides of three 



