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



sp. 33 ; Temm. PI. Col. 214 ; Knip & Temm. Pig. vol. i. pi. 30 ; 

 Less. Trait. Ornith. (1831) p. 471. 



Tourterelle de Batavia, Buff. Plan. Eulum. 214. 



Columba melanocephala, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. xi. pt. 1 (1819). 



Ptilinopus melanocephalus, Steph. Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. xiv. 

 p. 279. sp. 7; Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. 381. 



Le Turgis, Less. Compl. Buff. torn. Hi. Ois. p. 26 (1837). 



Ptilonopus melanocephalus, Gray, List B. Brit. Mus. (1844) p. 1, 

 (1856) p. 6. sp. 15 ; id. Gen. B. vol. ii. p. 467 (1844-49). 



Ionotreron melanocephala, Reich. Taub. p. 100, Taf. 237. figs. 

 1318, 1319. 



Iotreron melanocephala, Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. vol. ii. p. 24. sp. 2 

 (1859). 



Ptilopus melanocephalus, Schleg. Nederl. Tijdsch. Dierk. vol. iii. 

 p. 207; id. Mus. Pays-B. 1873, p. 28, Columbce. 



Ptilopus melanauchen, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. vol. vii. 

 (1875) p. 670 (ex Flores). 



Iotreron melanocephala, id. ibid. p. 671 • 



Hab. Java (Diard, Temminck) ; Sumbawa, Flores (Forstein, 

 Rosenberg) ; Sulabessie (Hoedt) ; Lombock ( Wallace). 



Count Salvadori has called the birds from Flores (/. c.) Ptilopus 

 melanauchen ; but I really cannot see that this island form differs 

 sufficiently from typical Pt. melanocephalus, ex Java, to require sepa- 

 ration as a distinct species. It would seem that four races of this 

 style of Ptilopus are quite sufficient to indicate the varieties that 

 exist. This species is one of the longest-known in the genus ; and 

 while the typical style is confined to Java and the Timor group of 

 islands, representative forms, constituting races if not distinct species, 

 are met with on other islands of the Malay archipelago. 



Male. Top and sides of head and neck, and lower part of throat 

 light grey ; occiput and back of neck black ; chin and throat yellow ; 

 crissum and short under tail-coverts rich yellow, long ones carmine ; 

 entire rest of plumage bright green ; primaries black on inner web, 

 green on outer; first primary slightly scalloped and narrowed at 

 tip ; bill yellow, greeuish horny at the tip ; feet pink-red ; orbits 

 bare, green. 



Total length 9| inches, wing 4£, tail 3, culmen h (Java.) 



Female. Entirely green, with the exception of the longest feathers 

 of the under tail-coverts, which are carmine, like those of the male. 



35. Ptilopus melanospilus. 



Ptilopus melanocephalus, Schleg. Mus. Pays-B. 1873, p. 29, ex 

 Celebes. 



Iotreron melanospila, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. vol. vii. 



(1875) p. 670. 



Ptilinopus melanocephalus celebensis, Briigg. Brem. Abhandl. 



(1876) p. 80. 

 Hab. Celebes. 



The various forms of Pt. melanocephalus were pointed out by 



