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



Adult. Front and crown, and a broad band across the back, dark 

 purplish red. Head, neck all around, and throat white with awash 

 of yellow. Feathers of the breast, split at their ends, have their 

 basal half rose-red, apical portion yellowish white ; beneath these 

 feathers is a reddish-orange band. Abdomen, flanks, and crissum 

 yellowish white. Under tail-coverts dark purplish red. Back and 

 upper tail-coverts pale greenish yellow. Wings pale grey, feathers 

 margined with greenish yellow. Primaries and secondaries dark 

 bronzy green ; first primary abruptly attenuated. Tail greyish 

 white. Bill black, with the tip yellow. Feet black. 



Total length 8£ inches, wing 5|, tail 3|, culmen §. 



Immature. Front and crown deep rosy purple. Cheeks grey. 

 Upper parts shining golden green. Throat white. Breast green, 

 feathers tipped with white. Abdomen and crissum yellowish white. 

 Under tail-coverts bright yellow. Wings shining golden green ; pri- 

 maries and secondaries margined with yellow. Tail golden green, 

 very bronzy on the edges and tips of the feathers. Bill and feet as 

 in the adult. (Four specimens before me, all of which lack the 

 purple bar on the breast shown in the figures of Bonaparte and 

 Hartlaub and Finsch.) 



24. Ptiloptjs coronulatus. 



Ptilonopus coronulatus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 185, 

 pi. 138 ; id. List Mamm. & Birds, New Guinea (1859), p. 45 ; Wall. 

 Ibis, 1865, p. 378; Schleg. Mus. Pays-Bas 1873, p. 9, Columbce ; 

 Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. vol. vii. (1875) p. 833. 



Ptilopus coronulatus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. (1876) 

 vol. ix. p. 198. 



Hab. Aru Islands {Wallace, Rosenberg); Salwatty and Sorong, 

 {Bernstein) ; Jobie {Rosenberg) ; Yule Island (D' Albert is). 



This species and the two next mentioned form a small section of 

 this genus, related closely to each other in the distribution of the 

 hues of their plumage. Like so many others of the genus, they are 

 conspicuous for their brightly-coloured crowns and abdomens. 



Male. Front and crown pink, bordered posteriorly by a narrow 

 line of purple, succeeded by a broader one of bright yellow. A 

 purple spot on the upper part of the abdomen ; middle of abdomen, 

 crissum, and under tail-coverts bright yellow. Entire rest of plumage 

 bronzy green. Secondaries and primaries margined with yellow. 

 First primary abruptly attenuated at tip. Bill greenish yellow. Feet 

 red. Iris orange. 



Total length 7 k inches, wing 4|, tail 2 J, culmen §. 



Female like the male. 



25. Ptilopus geminus. 



Ptilonopus geminus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. vol. vii. 

 (1875) p. 786. 



Ptilonopus sene.r, Briigg. Abhandl. natur. Ver. Brem. 1876, 

 p. 82. 



