150 TRERONID.T. 



p. 114 (1878) ; Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 559 ; Salrad. P.Z. S. 1879, 

 p. 64 ; Rosenb. Malay. Archip. pp. 3JK3, 561 (1879) ; Salvad. Orn. 

 Pap.eMol. iii. p. 60 (1882) : Nekrk. J.f. O. 1885, p. 34 (Waigiou) ; 

 Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 659 ; Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) 

 xlii. p. 54 {Affff. Orn. Pap. e Mol. p. 180) (1891). 



Iotrerou pectoralis, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 226, n. 9139 (1870) ; 

 Htin. $ Rchmu. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 280 (1890). 



Ptilopus viridis (part.), Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 369 (1877). 



Adult male. General colour bronzy green ; sinciput, lores, ante- 

 rior part of cheeks, and chin greenish grey ; a red-purple patch in 

 the middle of the breast ; vent and under tail-coverts yellowish 

 white, the latter with greenish stripes on the inner web ; wings 

 green, quills brighter with a bluish tinge ; secondaries and greater 

 wing-coverts with narrow pale yellow edges ; the innermost 

 greater wing-coverts grey, edged with green ; under surface of the 

 wing lead-colour, the under wing-coverts tinged with greenish ; 

 first primary narrowing gradually towards the tip ; tail above green 

 with an apical band greyish green; tail below dark grey, with a light 

 grey band at the end : " bill orange ; feet red ; iris yellow " ( Wal- 

 lace). Total length about 8 inches, wing 4 - 5, tail 2*35, bill 0'5, 

 tarsus - 62. 



Female. Differs from the male in wanting the purple-red patch 

 on the breast, which is entirely green. 



Young. Like the female. 



Hab. Western New Guiuea and the adjoining islands of Waigiou, 

 Gagie, Guebeh, Mysol, and Koffiao. 



The female of this species is very little different from that of 

 P. musschenbroeJci, which is somewhat smaller and seems to have 

 the greyish-green tinge on the face a little darker. 



Gould Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



Purchased. 



Gould Coil. (One of the types 



of P. roseipectus, Gr.) 

 Wallace Coll. (One of the 



tvpes of P. roseipectus, Gr.) 

 Goidd Coll. 



Wallace Coll. (Types of P. 



roseipectus, Or.) 

 Gould Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



71. Ptilopus salvadorii. 

 Ttilopus salvadorii, Rothsch. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, iii. p. x (1892). 



Similar to P. rnusechenbroeki and P. pectoralis and intermediate 

 between the two ; it has the red spot on the crop-region broader 

 than in the latter, but more restricted than in the first, and of a 



