8. PTIL0PU8. 153 



Female. Differs from the male in having no rcd-purplo colour 

 on the lower throat and upper breast, which are green, like the rest 

 of the underpays ; also the grey patch on the smaller wing-coverts 

 and the grey spots on the innermost greater wing-coverts are 

 wanting. 



Hab. The islands of Mafoor, Miosnom, Mysori, and Pulo-Manin 

 in Geelvink Bay, and perhaps also the adjoining coast of New 

 Guinea, near Andai and Dorey. 



a. <J ad. sk. [New Guinea] (Z. Laglaize). Tweeddale Coll. 



o. £ ad. sk. .Matoor, Geelvink Bay {Meyer). Tweeddale Coll. 

 c. d ad. sk. Mafoor, Geelvink Bay. Salviu-Godnian Coll. 



74. Ptilopus lewisii. 

 Ptilopus viridis, var., Bams. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W iv p 73 

 ( ioi ; '« Naiure > voL xx - P- 125 (1879); Salcad. 'ibis, 1880, 

 ?qcT ' £T*-J£*™+ voL xxiv - P- 239 (1881;; Tris/r. Ibis, 

 1882, p. 144, n. 76, p. 145; Bams, ibid. p. 473. 

 Ptilopus geelvinkianus, Lai/ard (nee, Schley.), Ibis 1880 p 307 

 1 tilopus eugenise 2,JRa?w. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zoo/, xri. p 131 (1881) • 



'r tUr ,%Z°}- Xxiv ' P* 239 <- l881 >5 Salvad. Om. Lap. e Mdl.w. 



p. 5b (1882). 



Ptilopus lewisii, Lams. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. vi p 794(1881)- id 

 A ature, vol. xxv. pp. 282, 355 (1882) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen 

 xvm. p 427, n. 4 (1882) ; id. Om. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 556 (1889) : 



Trn i* Q f inn ;n,° C - cY * T' Tii - P- 38 I 188 -') ! &*"«,. I Schal. 

 •f;4;: 18 ° 3 ' P- 404 i Sharpem Gould's B. New Gain. pt. xvii. pi. 3 



8 » 4) zi Grant > K Z - S - 1887 > P- S3 -> m8 > P- 199; Trutr. Cat. 

 Coll. B. p. 209 (1890); Salvad. Mem. B. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xlii 



P ' %&$"' °'' n ' 1>ap - e M ° l p - l80) ( 1891 ) S Tri8ir - Ibis > 18 92," 



-^rfttft. Very much like the male of P. mmschmbroehi, from 

 which it differs in having the face or fore part of the head verditer- 

 grey, instead of dark grey tinged with green, and principally in 

 having the purple-red colour of the lower throat and upper breast 

 darker and surrounded by a narrow line of dull purple : " bill 

 Btraw-yellow ; legs dull red ; iris orange " (E. L. Layard). " Total 

 length i -8 inches, wing 4-6, tail 2-3, bill 0-05, tarsus 0-5" (Sharpe) 



Hah. Solomon Islands— Lango, Guadalcanar, Florida, Alalavta 

 and Alu. ' ' 



a. Ad. sk Solomon Is. J. T. Cockerel!, Esq. fP - 



t>, c tf ad. sk. Alu, Solomon Is. C. M. Woodfoid, Esq. [0.]. 



75. Ptilopus engeniae. (Plate V.) 



>., Bp. Compt. Lend. xli. p. G58 (ex 



Iotreion eufrenia?, Gould, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 137: Sclat. P. Z S I860 



V T^i/i*- 7 ''; 24 {{-"' , '' isf ' "• P- -- t; ' "• i,J w ( 187 °)i Schley'. 



J °7^^ S P-' B P' Com P*- Bemi xli. p. 058 (ex Tns. Salomonis) 

 (18oo). 



T. D. iv. p. 24 (1871). 



