Members of the Genus Ptilopus. 571 



Ptilopus chrysogaster , Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, pp. 515, 541 ; 

 Schmeltz, Verh. Ver. Hamb. 1877 (1879), p. 179; Tristr. 

 Cat. Coll. B. p. 43 (1889). 



^'Uupa'" of the natives {Wodehouse). 



Hah. Society Islands : Huaheine and Raiatea ( ^oc?eAoz<*e, 

 Garrett) . 



Other localities for this species, Tonga-tabu and Marquesas 

 Islands, as given by Gray, and Marianne Islands, by Reichen- 

 bach, rest only on the labels of Ed. Verreaux, and are un- 

 doubtedly incorrect. The occurrence of this Pigeon on the 

 island of Tahiti would be likely enough, were it not that that 

 island possesses its own peculiar form in the next species, which 

 differs from F. chrysogaster in having the breast and belly 

 greenish instead of yellowish, difiFerences which are probably 

 due to long separation on different islands. The collector, 

 Garrett, of the Museum Godeflfroy, from which Canon Tristram 

 obtained his supposed Tahiti specimen, mentions that on that 

 island the shooting of birds is forbidden by a law of the French 

 authorities, and that he was unable to obtain examples there. 

 Consequently this locality must be erroneous. The name 

 Tahiti may often have been used in a collective sense for all 

 the Society Islands. 



Latham and Forster mention that in Raiatea (Ulietea) 

 and in some other islands the crown of this bird is of a darker 

 purple than in specimens from Tahiti, and Neboux (Rev. 

 Zool. 1840, p. 289) speaks of a "Colombe de Taiti^' with a 

 violet cap. This may be a different species. 



4. Ptilopus purpuratus. 



Purple-crowned Pigeon, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 626 (1783) ; 

 Bechst. Lath. Uebers. ii. p. 607 (1794) (ind. ex Otaheite). 



Columba purpurata, pt., Gm. S. N. i. p. 784 (1788) ; Lath, 

 lud. Orn. p. 598 (pt.) ; Bechst. Lath. Uebers. iv. p. 379 

 (pt. 1811). 



Columba kurukuru, Bonaterre, Enc. Meth, p. 240 (1790) 

 (ex Otaheite). 



Columba kurukuru, var. taitensis. Less. Voy. Coquille, p. 297 

 (1826). 



