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extremity ; flanks and abdomen green, with a large patch of 

 orange-red in the centre of the latter: under tail-coverts 

 orange yellow ; thighs green ; irides reddish orange ; bill 

 greenish black and horn-colour at tip ; feet olive brown. 

 Total length 9 inches ; bill f ; wing 5f ; tail 3f ; tarsi f. 



Sp. 452. PTILINOPUS EWINGII, Gould. 



Swing's Fruit-Pigeon. 



Ptilinopus ewingii, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part x. p. 19. 

 Ptilopus ewingi, Bonap. Coup d'CEil des Pig., Compt. Rend, de l^Acad. 

 Sci., torn, xxxix et xl. 1854, 1855. 



Ptilinopus ewingii, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. v. pi. 56. 



This lovely species, which is a native of the Coburg Penin- 

 sula, and doubtless ranges over the northern coast of Australia 

 generally, differs from the preceding, Ptilinopus swainsonii, 

 in being much smaller in all its admeasurements, in the colour 

 of the crown being rose-pink instead of crimson-red ; in the 

 breast being pale greenish grey instead of dull green ; in 

 having the centre of the abdomen rich orange instead of lilac ; 

 and also in having the tail-feathers tipped with greenish 

 yellow instead of clear rich yellow. 



In naming the second Australian species of this beautiful 

 form after the Rev. Thomas J. Ewing, D.D., I am actuated 

 by a desire to pay a just compliment to one who has devoted 

 considerable attention to the literature of ornithology ; I feel 

 assured, therefore, that however objectionable the naming of 

 species after persons may be under ordinary circumstances, 

 it will not in this instance be deemed an inappropriate mode 

 of evincing my sense of the many admirable qualities of a 

 highly esteemed friend. 



Porehead and crown of the head rose-pink, bordered with 

 a narrow line of yellow, except in front ; back of the head 

 and neck greenish grey ; all the upper surface bright green. 



