122 BULLETIN OF THE LIVERPOOL MUSEUMS. 
The feathers of the crown have narrow subterminal lines. Wing of-the male 
165, of the female 156; tail of male 136, of female 130 mm.” (Rothschild). 
Habitat. Sula Mangoli. 
leclancheri (4p.). One. ¢. Philippine Islands (Luzon). 
jambu (Gm.). EHighteen. 645,109, 2 juv. Malay Peninsula (Malacca ; 
Pahang, April). Borneo (Labuan ; Banjermassim). Java. 
[ 8. Mezotreron, Sharpe]. 
Cf. Hand-List Birds, vol. i. p. 56 (1899). 
dohertyi, Rothsch. Bull. B.O.C. v. p. 46 (1896) ; id. Ibis, 1896, pp. 566, 567 ; Hartert, 
Nov. Zool. iii. p. 589, pl. xii. (1896); id. Nov. Zool. v. pp. 466, 474 (1898). 
“* Male adult :—Head, sides of head, and throat white ; occiput and nape bright 
magenta purple: the nape feathers rather long. Neck and breast very light 
peach-blossom-pink, feathers with basal half pure white. Mantle—including 
upper wing-coverts—dark olive, washed with green in some lights and with dark 
bluish purple in others. Wing dark slate-grey, outer webs strongly glossed with 
bright metallic purple. Rump and lower back greyish olive green. Tail and 
longest upper tail-coverts bright reddish purple [dahlia purple (Ridgway), pl. viii. 
fig.2]. Colour of abdomen separated from that of the breast by a yellowish white 
semicircular band; abdomen plum-purple. Flanks,vent,and thighs greenish grey, 
the last bordered with yellow; tarsi pale grey. Under tail-coverts primrose 
yellow, with centres and most of inner webs greyish green. Tail below brownish 
ash colour. Beak blackish, anterior third pale orange ; toes purplish pink. Wing, 
6°9; tail, 5°3; bill, 0-7 inch.” (Rothschild). Habitat. Sumba. 
Ly. Ptilinopus, Swains.]. 
greyi, G.L.Gr. Nine. 5 3, 39. New Caledonia (Noumea, January). 
New Hebrides (Vaté, Havannah Harbour, June; Aniwa, November). 
Loyalty Islands (Lifu, Kepeneke, September). Santa Cruz Island. 
The two specimens from Santa Cruz are smaller than those from Vaté, which, as 
Count Salvadori has observed (Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus. xxi. p. 86, 1893) are smaller 
than those from the Loyalty Islands. In addition the colour of the Santa Cruz 
specimens is much greyer on the breast, but this may be due to their being spirit 
specimens. The New Caledonian birds about equal those from the Loyalty 
Islands in size. 
xanthogaster (/Vagl.). Two. ¢@. Timor Laut Islands (Larat, August). 
pelewensis, Hurtl. & Finsch. Two. Pelew Islands. 
perousei, Peale. Eleven. 76 (1 jr.), 39,1 juv. Samoa. Fiji Islands 
(Ovalau, December ; Rewa). 
dupetit-thouarsi (Vebour). Five. Marquesas Islands. 
richardsi, ams. One. 6. Solomon Islands (Ugi, September). 
?Type of the species, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. vi. p. 722 (1881) and of P. rhodo- 
stictus, Tristr. Ibis, 1882, p. 139, pl. v. 
ponapensis, Minsch. (= P. fasciatus, Peale, Tristr. Cat. Coll. Birds, p. 44). 
One. o. Ponape. 
hernsheimi, Finsch. 
regina (Swains.). Fourteen. 7 ¢ (1 jr.),29. Northern Australia (Cape 
York, September ; Cooktown, June, July, August). 
ewingi, Gould. Two. 1¢. Timor, November. 
No. 1 was collected by 8. Miiller. Mr. Hartert has shown (Noy. Zool. iv. p. 271, 1897) 
that the bird known as P. flavicollis, G.R.Gr., from Flores, Timor, and the neigh- 
bouring Islands, is identical with P. ewingi, Gould, from Northern Australia. 
fasciatus, Peale. Five. 24,2juv. Samoa Islands (Upolu, Ana, December). 
The bird recorded by Tristram (Cat. Coll. Birds, p. 44) as P. pictiventris, Elliot, is 
a spirit specimen, apparently very adult. The colour of the brown ventral 
patch has been partially removed by the spirit, but the purple pectoral band 
remains very conspicuous. 
porphyraceus (Forster). Nine. 3¢,29,2 juv. Tongatabu, February. 
Fiji Islands (Wakaia, April, May). 
We are doubtful about the identification of two very young specimens without 
locality. They are perhaps referable to P. rivolii. 
