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coverts white, varied with yellow. Greater wing-coverts and tertials 

 bordered with yellow, the latter grey in the middle of each feather. 

 Quills shining deep emerald-green, first one gradually narrowed to 

 the tip. Under surface of wings slate-colour. Tail green, with a 

 broad band of grey at the tip, which is white beneath, especially on 

 the inner webs. 



Length 8" 3'" ; wings 4" 9'" {Gray, I. c). 



Female with a patch on the abdomen of an orange-yellow. 



28. Ptilopus humeralis. 



Ptilonopus humeralis, "Wall. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 166. 



Ptilopus humeralis, Meyer, Proc. Zool. Soc. Soc. 1862, pi. 21 ; 

 Schleg. Mus. Pays-B. (1873) p. 16, Columbce ; id. Nederl. Tijdsch. 

 Dierk. torn. iv. p. 24 (1873) ; Meyer, Rowl. Ornith. Misc. p. 342, 

 pt. ix. ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. (1876) vol. ix. p. 198. 



Hah. Salwatty and adjacent coasts of New Guinea {Wallace) ; 

 Sorong {Bernstein) ; Salwatty and Mansinam {Meyer), 



This bird is easily distinguished from its immediate allies by the 

 deep-purple band on the shoulder. It apparently ranges across the 

 northern part of New Guinea, having been procured, as will be 

 observed, from Mansinam, on the mainland, in the Bay of Geel- 

 vink, to Sorong, on the west coast, and also on Salwatty, opposite 

 Sorong. 



Adult male. General plumage bright green. Middle of abdomen 

 rich orange. Crissum and under tail-coverts bright yellow. Shoulders 

 violet-grey, bounded beneath by deep purple. Wing-coverts violet- 

 grey, margined with green. Secondaries margined with yellow. 

 Primaries dark green, the first sharply narrowed towards the tip. 

 Tail bright green above, dark grey beneath, with an apical whitish 

 band. Bill greenish, tipped with yellow ; base above red and swollen. 

 Feet purplish red. 



Total length 8| inches, wing 4|, tail 2 h, culmen -|. 



29. Ptilopus jobiensis. 



Ptilopus humeralis jobiensis, Schleg. Mus. Pays-B. 1873, p. 16, 

 Columbce ; Rowl. Ornith. Misc. pt. ix. pp. 340, 348, pi. ; Salvad. 

 Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. (1876) vol. ix. p. 198. 



Hab. Island of Jobie. 



This species, a close relative of Pt. humeralis, has as yet only been 

 found upon the island of Jobie, in the great Bay of Geelvink, New 

 Guinea. It differs chiefly from the species just named in the colo- 

 ration of the shoulders of the wing, which are violet-grey, without 

 any purple ; and the tail is uniform green above, without the apical 

 grey baud. 



Adult. General plumage yellowish green. Abdomen rich orange. 

 Crissum and under tail-coverts white, the latter tipped with yellow. 

 Shoulders violet-grey. "Wing-coverts violet in the centre, surrounded 

 by greenish blue, and margined with green. Primaries and secon- 

 daries dark green, the latter edged with yellow ; first primary nar- 



