574 Mr. L. W. Wiglesworth on the Polynesian 



Ptilopus huttoni, Elliot, P. Z. S. 1876, pp. 515, 538. 

 Hab. Island of Rapa or Opara, Austral Group [Hutton). 



7. Ptilopus chalcurus. 



Ptilonopus chalcurus, Gray, B. Trop. Is. p. 37 (1859). 



Ptilinopus chalcurus, Finscli & Hartl. Orn. Centralpolyn. 

 p. 131 (1867) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 31. 



Ptilopus coralensis, Schl. Mus. P.-B., Columbce, p. 14 

 (1873). 



Ptilopus chalcurus, Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 534. 



Hab. Hervey or Harvey Island, Cook group {Gray). 



It is strange that Garrett, who spent six months collecting 

 in the Cook Islands of Rarotonga, Atiu, and Aitutaki, never 

 obtained examples of this species. It lacks the purple ab- 

 dominal spot of the adult P. rarotongensis, H. & F., but may 

 prove to be the young of that bird, with the description of 

 which it corresponds fairly well. 



8. Ptilopus rarotongensis. 



Ptilinopus rarotongensis, Hartl. & Finsch, P. Z. S. 1871, 

 p. 30; Graffe, Journ. Mus. Godef. i. p. 49, pi. 7. fig. 1 

 (1873); Finsch, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 94; Garrett, Etlmogr. 

 Abtheil. Mus. Godef. p. 224 (1881). 



Ptilopus neglectus, Schl. Mus. P.-B., Columbce, p. 7 (1873) ; 

 Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 524. 



Ptilopus rarotongensis, Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 534; 

 Schmeltz, Verb. Ver. Hamb. 1877 (1879), p. 178. 



Hab. Rarotonga Island in the Cook group [Garrett) ; 

 Savage Island {Elliot) ? 



A careful comparison of the original descriptions of P. neg- 

 lectus and P. rarotongensis leaves little doubt as to these species 

 being identical. The habitat of P. neglectus was hitherto 

 unknown. Schlegel gave it as Oceania only. There can 

 now be little doubt but that it came from one of the islands 

 of the Cook group ■^. 



* Since the above was written, Mr. Biittikofer writes to uie from 

 Leyden : " A careful comparison of Schlegel's type of P. neglectus with 

 the description of P. rarotongensis has convinced me that they are iden- 

 tical, and I have altered the name of ovu' specimen to P. rarotongensis.^ 



