1878.] MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON THE GENUS PTILOPUS. 535 



delicate grey like the neck ; tail dark green with a broad greyish- 

 white end ; the feathers, except the two middle ones, are on the inner 

 web dark grey, crossed above the white end by a blackish cross band • 

 the white end is margined narrowly with pale yellow ; tail beneath 

 dark grey, at the end broadly white ; bill plumbeous, tipped with 

 pale horn-colour; feet reddish brown, nails dark; irides yellow 

 bill brownish yellow ; legs purple-red. 



"Fount/. Vertex and hind neck green like the back ; front and 

 forehead covered with a pale violet-purple patch ; sides of head 

 and neck grey, washed with green, the crop and upper portion of 

 breast with greenish yellow ; the underparts are of a less brilliant 

 yellow ; the sides darker greyish green j the red pectoral patch is in- 

 dicated only by some dirty purplish feathers ; the pale yellow mar- 

 gins at the ends of the coverts of the secondaries are broader and 

 form a distinct cross line; the white end portion of the tail-feathers 

 is washed at the outer web and apex with green ; bill and feet brown • 

 total length 8 inches, wing 5, tail 3'1."— Finsch and Hartl. (I. c). ' 



13. Ptilopus fasciatus. 



Ptilinopus fasciatus, Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped. Ornith. (1848) 

 p. 193 pi. ; Gray, List B. Brit. Mus. (1856) p. 4 ; Finsch & Hartl. 



ST- ?fo^ Ip0l - vn ' (1867) ?• 115 > G ™ ffe > Journ - Mus. GodefT. 

 Heft i. (1872) p. 45, Taf. 7. fig. 2. 



Ptilinope de Clementine, Hombr. & Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud (1841) 

 pi. xxix. fig. 3. " 



Ptilinopus Clementinas, Bon. Compt. Rend. torn. xl. (1855) p 216 

 sp. 48 ; id. Consp. Gen. Av. vol. ii. p. 22. sp. 9; id. Iconogr! Pig.' 

 pi. xxu. fig. 1 (1857) ; Reich. Taub. p. 96, tab. 240. fie. 2588 • 

 id. Suppl. p. 203, pi iv figs. 34, 35 ; Gray, B. Trop. 1st p. 38 

 Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeff. Heft xii. p. 37 (1876) 



Columba viridissima, Temm. PI. Col., text of C. diademata. 



*Zn%$? c /^ ew /'?V aCq - & Puch - Yo ?- P61e Sud, vol. iii. 

 text (1853), p. 117, Atl. pi. xxix. fig. 3. 



o™nt\ U -\ U clementinai > De s Murs & Pre'v. Voy. Venus, Ois. p. 



Lamprotreron porphyracea, Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. vol. ii. p 21 

 Ptilopus elementing, Bon. Iconog. Pig. (1857) pi. xxii. fij. 1. 

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

 (partim). v / ^' ' 



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

 Ptilopus porphyraceus Schleg. Mus. Pays-B. 1873, p. 8, Columba. 

 Ptilopus fasciatus, Schleg. Mus. Pays-B. 1873, p. 6, Columba 

 Ptilonopus ponapensis, Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 779. 

 Native name Manu-tagi (Whitmee). 



(K^bar Sam ° a ^ Peale ' Hombron and Ja ^inot); Ponap^ Island 

 This is the species first described by Peale (I. c.) from Samoa, 

 and afterwards by Hombron and Jacquinot as Clementina. It is a 

 well-marked bird differing from all its allies in the yellowish hue 

 of its throat, cheeks, and breast. The abdomen is pure green, with 



