8. PTILOPUS. 151 



different shape, being cut in a straight line below and of a cres- 

 cent ic shape on the upper margin, above which, on the throat, 

 there is a goldoti tinge, wanting in the two allied species ; marginal 

 upper wing-coverts with grey spots : bill and feet in dry skins 

 yellowish. Total length about 7*5 inches, wing 4*5, tail 2-3, bill 

 0-oS, tarsus 0-75. (RathschMd Coll.) 



1 have seen in the Rothschild Collection three specimens, which I 

 recognized at once as belonging to an uudescribed species. 



Bab. J obi. 



72. Ptilopus viridis. 



Tartar viiidis amboinensis, Briss. Om. i. p. 152, n. 43, t. 15. f. 2 



(17(50). 

 Columba viridis, Linn. S. N. i. p. 233, n. 23 (1766) ; Gm. S. N. i. 



p. 780, n. 23 (1788); Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 609, n. 158 (17'J0); 



Bonn. Enc. Meth. i. p. 237 (1790) ; Temm. & Knip, Pig. i. pi. 17 



(1808-11); Temm. Pig. et Gall. i. p. 472 (1813) ; Vieill. N. L). 



xxvi. p. 380 (1818) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. xi. 1, p. 65 (1819) ; Desm. 



Diet. Sc. Nat. xl. p. 376 (1826) ; Wagl. Syst. Av. Columba, sp. 81 



(1827); Eyd. ■$■ Gerv. Mag.de Zool. 1836, pi. 76 (Bourou) ; iid. 



Voi). de la Favor, v. 2, p. 60, pi. 24 (1839) ; Temm. PI. Col. Tabl. 



Meth. p. 81 (1840) ; Prev. $ Knip, Pig. ii. pi. 17 (1838-43). 

 La Tourterelle a gorge pourpree d'Amboine, IfAubent. PI. Enl. 142. 

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

 Columba asiatica, P. L. S. Mull. Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 133 (1776) ; 



Cass. Pr. Ac. Philad. 1864, p. 248. 



Gi n Turtle, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. 2, p. 053, n. 49 (1783). 



Ptilinopua viridis, Sw. Zool. Joum. i. p. 473 (note) (1825) ; Steph. 



Gen. Zool. xiv. 1, p. 279 (1826). 

 Ptilonopus viridis, G. Ii. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 467, n. 15 (T844) ; id. 



Lid Spec. B. Brit. Mm. Columbre, p. 6 (1856) ; id. P.Z. S. 1860, 



p. 360; Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 34; id. Lbis, 1865, p. 381, n. 39; 



Fmsch, Neu-Guin. p. 17 (1865); Wall. J. f. O. 1866, p. 279, 



n. 39 ; Salvad. Aim. Mas. Cio. Gen. viii. p. 383 (Bouru) (1876). 

 Jotivion viiidis, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 24 (1854); id. Compt. Bend. 



xxxix. p. 878 (1854), xl. p. 217, n. 53; id. Coup d'oeil Ordre Pig. 



pp. 10, 55, n. 53 (1855) ; Lenz, J. f. O. 1877, p. 377; Hein. § 



Rchnw. Nomencl. Mm. Hein. Om. p. 280 (1890). 

 Iouotreron viridis (part.), Bchnb. Tauben, p. 99, n. 231, t. 237, 



ff 1320-21 (1862). 

 lotreron viridis, G. R. Gr. Hani-lid, ii. p. 226, n. 9138 (1870). 

 l'tilopus viiidis, Schleg. De Dierent. p. 210 (1864) ; id. N. T. D. 



iii. p. 346 (i860); Rosenb. Jteis nam- de Zuidoostereil. p. 100 



(1867) ; Schleg. Mas. !'.-/>. Columba 1 , p. 22 (1873) : Sa/rail. Ann. 



Mas. Civ. Gen. ix. p. 195, n. 2 i 1876) ; Gieb. Tins. Om. iii. p. 369 



(1877) ; Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878. p. 560 ; Salvad. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 64 ; 



Rosenb. Malay. Arehip. pp. 323, 372 (Goram) (1879); Bonis. Pr. 



Linn. Sue. N.S. W. iv. p. 73 (1879) ; Salvad. Om. Pap. e Mbl. iii. 



p. 57 (1882); Bias. $ Nehrk. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1882, p. 428; 



Iristr. Cot. <:,//. /!. p. 45 (1889) ; Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. 



(2) xlii. p. 54 (Aog. Orn. Pap. e Mol. p. 180) (1891). 



I Ad oil mule. General plumage bronzy green ; face and upper part of 



