Vv COLUMBIDAE 347 
the Isle of Pines, with its feathered white metatarsi and fork- 
tipped primaries, 1s green, with grey wing- and tail-bars, white 
throat and yellow abdomen, the last being divided from the breast 
by a yellowish-white and a black band. 
Of the smaller Fruit-Pigeons, which differ but little in habits 
from the larger, the lovely genus Chrysoenas 1s confined to Fiji. C. 
luteovirens has an olive-yellow head, and a bright yellow abdomen 
and collar; the remaining plumage being yellow, more or less tinged 
with green, especially on the wings and tail. The feathers of the 
neck and back are narrowly lanceolate and the tail-coverts long. 
The female is green, with a yellow wash below, and has nearly 
brown remiges. C. victor is bright orange, with olive-yellow 
head and throat and browner wing-quills; the coverts almost 
conceal the tail, but the long decomposed body-feathers are not 
especially narrow. The female is green, with yellowish head 
and orange-margined remiges. C. viridis is dark green, with a 
golden hue on the back and breast, the head being almost yellow, 
as are the edges of the quills. The female is green, with grey 
vent-region. The seventy or more brilliantly coloured members 
of the genus Ptilopus range from the Malay Peninsula to the 
Marquesas: New Guinea and Polynesia accounting for a large 
majority. The following are some of the most striking. VP. 
jambu of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Bangka, and 
Billiton has the front half of the head crimson, the upper parts 
bright green, the primaries black, margined with bluish-green, 
the tip of the tail yellowish, and the under parts white, with a 
purplish-brown streak down the throat, a rosy smear on the 
breast, and a red-brown anal region. The female has dull purple 
on the head and a greyish-green breast. The following three 
species have bifurcated breast-feathers.  P. dupetit-thouarsi ot 
the Marquesas has the crown whitish, encircled by a yellowish 
line, the upper surface green with yellow margins to the wing- 
quills and tip to the tail, the scapulars and inner secondaries 
spotted with blue, the under parts yellowish-green, with a cherry- 
coloured patch surrounded by orange on the breast, the throat 
and vent pale yellow. P. swainsoni of Eastern Australia, stray- 
ing to South-East New Guinea, has a rose-lilac forehead and 
crown with a yellow margin behind, bright green upper parts 
with yellow edges to the wing-quills and peacock-blue tips to 
the inner secondaries and scapulars, a yellow tip to the tail, a 
