540 mr. d. g. elliot on the genus ptiljopus. [may 7, 



18. Ptilopus xanthogaster. 



Columba purpurata, Temm. (nee auct.) PI. Col. livr. 43 (1824), 

 vide text to pi. 254, livr. 95 (1835). 



Columba xanthogaster, Wagl. Syst. Av. (1827) sp. 29, 

 Columba. 



Columba diademata, Temm. text to PI. Col. 254, livr. 95 

 (1835). 



Ptilinopus purpuratus, Steph. (nee auct.) Cont. Shaw's Gen. 

 Zool. vol. xiv. p. 277. sp. 1. 



Ptilinopus fluvigaster, Swains. Class. B. vol. ii. p. 347. 



LeKurukuru a ventre jaune, Less. Compl. Buff. torn. iii. Ois. 



p. 36(1837). 



Ptilonopus xanthogaster, Gray, Gen. B. (1844-49) vol. ii. p. 446 ; 

 id. ListB. Brit. Mus. (1856) p. 5; id. List B. Trop. Isl. p. 36 



(1859). 



Kurukuru xanthogaster, Des Murs and Prev. Voy. Venus (1855), 



Zool. p. 238. 



Thouarsitreron diademata, Bon. Compt. Rend. torn, xxxix. 

 (1854) p. 876, torn. xl. (1855) p. 216; id. Iconog. Pig. pi. 18 

 (1857); id. Consp. Av. vol. ii. p. 16(1857); Reich. Tauben, p. 

 93, figs. 1326, 1327. 



Ptilonopus diadematus, Wall. Ibis, 18C5, p. 380. 



Ptilinopus diadematus, Finsch & Haiti. Faun. Centralpolyn. 

 (1867) p. 124. 



Ptilopus diadematus, Schleg. Mus. Pays-B. 1873, p. 11, 

 Columbce. 



Ptilopus xanthogaster, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. 1876, 

 vol. ix. p. 199. 



Hab. Banda (Reinwardt, Eoedt) ; Khoor or Kanaloor, Little 

 Ke, Grand Ke (Von Rosenberg); Lettie, east of Timor (Hoedt). 



This species was first called by Temminck Columba purpurata, 

 Lath., in the 43rd livraison of the ' Planches Coloriees,' he sup- 

 posing that it was a female of Latham's bird. Afterwards he 

 ascertained, from an examination of the specimens obtained by Quoy 

 and Gaimard during the voyage of the ' Uranie,' that the bird figured 

 by him represented a distinct species ; and he therefore, in the 95th 

 livraison, issued a new sheet of text calling the bird diademata, and 

 requested that the previous page should be replaced by this one. 

 However, between the dates of these two livraisons (1824-1835), 

 Wagler had in 1827, in his ' Systema Avium,' described the species 

 as xanthogaster, which name will of course take precedence over 

 Temminck's later one of diademata. 



Adult. Head, neck, and upper part of the breast greyish white. 

 An orange-yellow line passes over the eye and encircles the occiput. 

 Throat bright yellow. Lower part of breast, abdomen, and under tail- 

 coverts orange-yellow ; a large pale grey patch on upper part of abdo- 

 men. Upper parts dark green. Centre of tertials, scapulars, and 

 innermost secondaries deep blue, bordered with yellow. Primaries 

 bordered with white, the first one abruptly and greatly attenuated. 

 Tail dark green, with an apical baud of lighter green. Bill green, 



