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TEEEONIDJE. 



purple ; vent and under tail-coverts yellowish white, the latter with 

 a green stripe on the inner wehs ; wings green, quills deeper Avith a 

 bluish tinge ; a lilac-grey pat^-h on the smaller wing-coverts near 

 the bend of the wing ; innermost greater coverts grey edged with 

 yellowish green ; greater wing-coverts and secondaries edged with 

 yellow ; wings underneath lead-colour, under wing-coverts tinged 

 with greenish ; first primary narrowing gradually ; tail bronzy 

 green and tipped with a greyish-green band, the light tips edged 

 with yellow ; tail underneath dark grey, lighter at the base and 

 with an apical grey band, tinged with yellow on the edges of the 

 feathers : " feet pink-red ; bill yellow, base red ; orbits yellow ; iris 

 with inner ring yellow, outer red " ( Wallace). Total length 9 inches, 

 wing 4-75, tail 2 - 25, bill 0-54, tarsus 0-85. 



Female. Like the male ( Wallace). 



Hub. Amboyna group — Amboyna, Goram, Ceram, Monawolka, 

 Harouko, Bouru. 



a. 2 a d- sk. 



b. $ ad. sk. 



c. Ad. sk. 



d. $ ad. sk. 



e. 3 ad. sk. 

 /. Ad. sk. 

 y-k. cJ ad et 



inini. sk. 

 I, m. Ad. sk. 

 n. Ad. sk. 

 o. Irurn. sk. 

 p. Ittim. st. 



Bouru (Wallace). 



Bouru. 



Bouru. 



Bouru, Dec. (II. O. Forbes) 



Amboyna, May (//. 0. Fori 



Amboyna. 



Ceram. 



Ceram ( Wallace). 

 Goram. 



[Gagie Is.] 

 [Java.] 



Gould Coll. 

 Wallace Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 E. Wilson, Esq. [P." 1 . 

 Wallace Coll. 



Gould Coll. 

 Wallace Coll. 

 Wallace Coll. 

 Purchased. 



73. Ptilopus musschenbroeki. 



Ptilopus musschenbroekii, Eosenb. in litt. ; Schley. N. T. D. iv. p. 23 



(1871) ; Rowley, Orn. Misc. hi. p. 113, pi. 95(1878); Meyer, 



Fowl. Om. Misc. iii. p. 116 (1878); Salvad. Ann. Mas. Civ. Gen. 



ix. p. 195, n. 3 (1876) ; id. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 59 (1882). 

 Ptilopus viridis, stirps geelvinkiana, Schley. N. T. 1). iv. p. 23 



(1871). 

 Ptilopus viridis geelvinldanus, Schley. Mus. P.-B. Columbse, p. 23 



(1873). 

 Ptilonopus musschenbroekii, Beccari, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 715 



(1875). 

 Ptilopus geelvinkianus, Flliot, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 560; Salvad. P. Z. S. 



1879, p. 05 ; Bums. Pr. Linn. Soc. .N. S. W. iv. p. 73 (1879). 

 Ptilopus viridis, Eosenb. (nee Linn.) Malay. Archip. p. 501 (1879). 



Aclult male. Similar to the male of P. viridis, but smaller, with 

 the face dark grey tinged with green, the purple-red colour of the 

 lower throat and upper breast lighter, the grey patch on the smaller 

 wing-coverts more extended, and the grey band at the end of the 

 tail with no yellow edges : " bill yellow, base red ; feet red ; irides 

 orange " (Beccari). Total length 8*25 to 8-75 inches, wing 4-25, 

 tail 2-2 bill 0-55, tarsus 08. 



