154 



treroxidj:. 



Jotreron eugeniaa, Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 8-3-4 (1856) ; id. Icon. 



Pig. text of pi. 27. f. 1 (1857) *. 

 Ptilonopus eugenise, G. B. Gr. List Spec. B. Brit. Mus. Coliunbae, 



p. 6 (1856); id. Cat. B. Trap. Isl. p. 39 (1859); Wall. Ibis, 



1865, p. 381, n. 40; id. J.f. O. 1866, p. 272, n. 40 ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 



1860, p. 124. 

 Ionotreron viridis, Rchnb. {nee Linn.) Tauben, ii. p. 179, n. 231 



(1862). 

 Ptilopus eugeniae, Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 363 (1877) ; Salvad. 



Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. p. 195, n. 5 (1876) ; Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, 



p. 561; Bams. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. TV. iv. p. 73 (1879), vi. 



p. 724 (1881); id. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zuol. xvi. p. 131 (1881 j; 



Nature, vol. xxv. p. 355 (1882) ; Tristr. Ibis, 1882, pp. 139, 144, 



n. 72 ; Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. pp. 56, 556 (1882) ; Bams. 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. TV. vii. p. 38 (1882); Sclat. P. Z. S. 1883, 



p. 348 ; Tristr. Cat. Coil. Birds, p. 44 (1889) ; Salvad. Mem. 



B. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xlii. p. 53 (Ami. Orn. Pap. e Mol. p. 179) 



(1891). 



Adult male. Head pure white ; crop dark purple-red, surrounded 

 by a dull purple band ; breast greyish green ; abdomen whitish ; 

 flanks green ; under tail-eoverts white, edged with yellow and with 

 a longitudinal dull green band on the inner web ; hind neck, back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts bronze-green ; wing bronze-green, the 

 quills darker but brighter green ; band on the smaller wing-coverts 

 and spots near tie tip of the tertials and their coverts light grey ; 

 tail above green, with a broad grey band tinged with green near the 

 tip, beneath dark grey, with a broad pale grey band, nearly white 

 at the tip : " iris red ; bill yellowish ; feet cherry-red " (Richards). 

 Total length 8 - 64 inches, wing 4'9, tail 2*55, bill 0"55, tarsus 0*78. 



Adult female. Like the male. 



Young. " The young on leaving the nest have the chin and fore- 

 head only white and the rest of the head ashy, washed with green ; 

 the greater wing-coverts and the secondaries are margined on their 

 outer webs with pale yellow ; in other respects the plumage is like 

 that of the adult.'' (Ramsay.) 



Hub. Solomon Islands. 



a. Ad. sk. Solomon Isl. J. McGillivray, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of species.) 



b. Ad. sk. Ugi, Solomon Isl. Tweertdale Coll. 



c. 2 ad. sk. Ugi, Solomon Isl., Sept. G. E. Richards, Esq. [C.]. 



d. 2 id. sk. Ugi, Solomon Isl., Sept. Salvin-Godman Coll. t 



(G. E.Bichards). 



* The plate to the text of this species is wanting in Bonaparte's ' Icono- 

 graphie,' and seems never to have been published. 



t PTiLorus, sp. 



Ptilopus eugenise, Dc Vis (nee Gould), Ann. Rep. Brit. New Guin. p. 62 

 (1890) (Ferguson Island); id. Colon. Papers, n. 103, p. 116 (1890) ; id. 

 Ibis, 1891, p. 140 ; Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xlii. p. 53 (Agg. 

 Orn. Pap. e Mol. p. 179) (1891). 



I do not know to which species the above references should be assigned. 



