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the Isle of Pines, with its feathered white metatarsi and fork- 

 tipped primaries, is 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 is 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. mridis 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. P. 

 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 of 

 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 



