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Pritonopus (LAMPROTRERON) SUPERBUS. 
Columba superba, Temm. Pig. t. 33. 
Ptilonopus superbus, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 279. 
Lamprotreron superba, Pr. B. Consp. Av. ii. p. 18. 
Batchian and E. Gilolo (Wall. Coll.) ; Amboyna; Ternate. 
The bird from Batchian appears to be a trifle larger than that 
from Amboyna, and the band on the breast is also broader ; while 
that from the Aru Islands is similar, but altogether smaller. P#tzlo- 
nopus cyanovirens § (?), Less., is probably the 92 of this variety, 
Knip. & Prey. Pig. t. 8. The Australian specimens are very similar 
in size to the Amboyna examples; but the band on the breast has a 
distinct mixture of green within it. 
The Celebes specimens are those of a decidedly distinct species, 
and are at once distinguished by the purplish-grey breast and the 
deep green band on the lower part of the latter ; the female has, ac- 
cording to Mr. Wallace’s specimens of that sex, the top of the head 
of a deep purple, with deep bluish-green intermixed ; while on the 
head of the true P. superbus it is of the same colour as the spot on 
the shoulder of the wings. I have named the Celebes bird Pézilo- 
nopus formosus ; the 9 is represented as Columba superba, Knip. & 
Prev. Pig. t. 42. 
Ptilonopus porphyreus, Temm. Molucca. 
Ptilonopus diadematus, Temm. Banda. 
Ptilonopus viridis (Linn). Amboyna. 
Treron aromatica, Temm. Amboyna. 
Treron vernans, Temm. Banda. 
*CARPOPHAGA (MEGALOPREPIA) FORMOSA. B.M. 
¢o. Emerald green, each feather of the body margined with golden 
and washed with white on the nape and breast ; head greenish-white, 
varied with yellow; lower part of breast with a rich carmine spot ; 
abdomen orange-yellow ; lower tail-coverts rufous orange-yellow. 
Q. Similar to the male; but without the carmine spot on the 
breast. 
Length 11” 3!’, wings 5" 9'". 
East Gilolo. 
CarporHaGa (Ducuta) BASALIS. B.M. 
Columba basalis, Temm. 
Carpophaga basalica, Sundev. 
Ducula basalis, Pr. Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 35. 
Batchian and Gilolo. 
CARPOPHAGA PERSPICILLATA. B.M. 
Columba perspicillata, Temm. Pl. Col. 246. 
Carpophaga perspicillata, G. R. Gray, List of Gall. B.M. p. 6. 
Batchian, Kaisa Island, and Gilolo. 
The Amboyna specimen differs in having the head, neck, and 
