528 MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON THE GENUS PTILOPUS. [May 7, 



general appearance the preceding one, differs from all others in the 

 colour of the spot upon the abdomen. In the type this is mixed 

 with rufous and yellow, the latter colour perhaps predominating ; 

 but in a second specimen, also in the Paris collection, the spot is 

 more rufous, and extends over a greater space. I regard this latter as 

 a more adult individual. It unfortunately bears no precise locality, 

 but has merely marked upon the stand, " donne par la Societe des 

 Missions Catholicpie de l'Occanie en 1849." The type was brought 

 by Hombron and Jacquinot from the Samoan Islands in their Voyage 

 au Pole Sud. The exact island is not given on the specimens by 

 these travellers ; but Bonaparte has stated Vavao to be the habitat. 

 I am not aware how he ascertained this island to be the one in 

 which the specimen described by him was procured. 



Adult. Front and crown rosy purple, faintly margined with 

 yellow ; throat yellowish white ; occiput and back of neck pale 

 green ; sides of neck and breast greenish grey ; flanks and abdo- 

 men pale green, with a rufous spot tinged with yellow in the centre 

 of the latter ; crissum and under tail-coverts bright yellow, inclining 

 to a deep orange hue at the tips. Upper part and wings bronzy 

 green. Secondaries margined on outer webs with pale yellow. Tail 

 bronzy green, with an apical light-yellow band. Bill green ? Feet 

 dark red 1 Total length 7\ inches ; wing 5|, tail 3|, culmen §. 

 (Type.) 



6. Ptilopus coralensis. 



Ptilopus coralensis, Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped. (1848) p. 190, 

 pi. 51; Cass. U.S. Expl. Exped. 2nd ed. (1858) p. 272, pi. 32 ; 

 Schleg. Mus. Pays-Bas, 1873, p. 14, Columbce. 



Columba purpurata, Temm. & Knip, Pig. vol. i. pi. 35 ? 



Ptilopus viridissima, Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. vol. ii. p. 20 (1857). 



Kurutreron coralensis, Bon. Consp. Av. vol. ii. p. 26. sp. 3 

 (1857) ; Reich. Taub. p. 93 ; id. Novit. Suppl. p. 203, t. iii. f. 33. 



Ptilinopus coralensis, Cass. Wilkes Expl. Exped. text, p. 272, atl. 

 pi. 32(1858). 



Ptilonopus coralensis, Gray, List B. Trop. Isl. p. 37 (1859). 



Ptilonopus viridissimus, Gray, List B. Trop. Isl. p. 38 (1859), 

 parthn ; Reich. Tauben, p. 95, pi. 236 b. fig. 3367. 



Ptilinopus viridissimus, Fiusch & Hartl. Faun. Centralpolyn. 

 (1867) p. 134. 



Hab. Island of Carlshoff, Paumotu group {Peale). 



The type of Bonaparte's Ptilopus viridissimus is in the Paris 

 Museum. The example, which was brought home by M. Maugc, the 

 surgeon attached to the expedition commanded by Captain Baudin, 

 is marked as from Timor. This locality is evidently erroneous, as 

 no species belonging to this particular group of the genus Ptilopus 

 is found in that island, but all are, on the contrary, apparently con- 

 fined to the islands of the South Sea, from some one of which it is 

 most probable the specimen described by Bonaparte was brought. 

 It is in a bad condition, the primaries and tail being worn away to a 

 lonsiderable degree, as though the bird had been in captivity at 



