350 Miscellaneous. 
Flanks light green. Centre of abdomen rufous, bounded above 
by a deep purple line. Crissum and under tail-coverts bright 
yellow, the latter orange towards their tips. Back and upper 
tail-coverts bright green. Scapulars tipped with lilac. Tail 
bright green, with a broad apical yellow band. Bill greenish, 
with a yellow tip. Feet probably dark red. Total length 
81 inches, wing 53, tail 3, culmen ;% inch. 
Hab. Nukahiva (type), Marquesas Islands, Samoa (Whit- 
mee); Savage Island, Navigators’ and Friendly Islands 
Layard). 
This is, I presume, the bird called P. apicalis by Layard in 
the ‘ Proceedings of the Zoological Society ’ for 1876, p. 495. 
It differs from the P. apicalis, Bon., a very distinct species, by 
being of a much lighter colour on the neck and breast, and by 
having the rufous of the abdomen bounded above by deep 
purple, and the scapulars tipped with lilac. In the type of 
P. apicalis there is no purple on the abdomen, the patch being 
rufous mixed with yellow, and the scapulars are uniform 
green. The locality Vavao, given by Bonaparte, is question- 
able, as the type was brought by Hombron and Jacquinot 
from the Samoan Islands ; but which one is not stated. The 
type of the Prilopus pictiventris is now in the collection of the 
Paris Museum, and came from Nukahiva, of the Marquesas 
group. I have also seen two specimens in the British Mu- 
seum, sent by the Rev. 8. J. Whitmee from Samoa and 
Savage Island, which are precisely like the type, and bore 
upon their label (written by Mr. Whitmee) the name of 
Ptilopus fasciatus, Peale, which is a very different species, in 
no way to be confounded with it. As there is considerable 
confusion still existing among these small fruit-pigeons of the 
South-Sea Islands, I will add that the present new species 
differs from the others with a yellow apical band on the tail 
especially by the colouring of the abdomen. Its proper posi- 
tion in the group will be fully shown in a paper upon these 
birds, on which I have been for some time engaged, and have 
now nearly ready for publication. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
On Dinichthys, Newberry. 
Pror. Owen, followed in this by Prof. Huxley, constituted an 
order, Protopteri (Dipnoi, Huxley), for the genus Lepidosiren, 
which combines with essentially ichthyic characters structural 
peculiarities which greatly approximate it to the perennibranchiate 
Batrachians. Paul Gervais and others, on the contrary, class the 
