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



equal for its entire length. Secondaries yellowish green, edged with 

 pale yellow. Tail bright yellowish green, with a grey spot at tip of 

 feathers on inner webs. Underneath smoky black, with apical grey 

 band. Bill yellow, base red; feet red; iris orange. Total length 

 85 inches, wing 4f, tail 2f , culmen f. 



Female. Like the male, but without the spot on the breast. 



48. Ptilopus viridis. 



Columba viridis, Linn, (nee Scop.) Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 283. sp. 

 23 (1766;; Gmel. Syst. Nat. (1788) p. 780. sp. 23; Shaw, Gen. 

 Zool. vol. xi. pt. 1, p. 65 (1819) ; Knip & Prev. Pig. vol. ii. pi. xvii. 



Tourterelle a gorge pourpree d ' Atnboine, Buff. PI. Enl. no. 

 142. 



Ptilincpus viridis, Steph. Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. xiv. p. 299. sp. 5 

 (1826). 



lonotreron viridis, Reich. Taub. p. 99, pi. 237. figs. 1320-21. 



Iotreron viridis, Bon. Iconogr. Pig. (1857) pi. 28, juv. $?; id. 

 Consp. Gen. Av. vol. ii. p. 24. sp. 1. 



Ptilonopus viridis, Grav, Gen. B. vol. ii. p. 467 (1844-49) ; id. 

 List B. Brit. Mus. (1856)" p. 6; id. List Mamm. & B. New Gnin. 

 (1859) p. 45 ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 34 ; Wall. Ibis, 1865, 

 p. 381. 



Ptilopus viridis, Schleg. Mus. Pays-B. 1873, p. 22, Columba ; 

 Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vol. ix. (1876) p. 195. 



Hab. Bourn, Amboyna, Ceram, Goram {Wallace); Harouka, 

 Monavolka {Rosenberg). 



This is the oldest-described member of the genus Ptilopus, and 

 the only one known to Linnaeus. It is entirely an insnlar species, 

 confined to the islands west of New Guinea, upon which land I 

 have found no record of its ever having been procured. It is repre- 

 sented in the east (Bay of Geelvink) by the next species. 



Male. Forehead and upper part of throat light grey. Lower part 

 of neck, and upper part of breast very deep reddish purple. Rest 

 of underparts yellowish green. Crissum and under tail-coverts light 

 yellow ; the latter with broad dark green stripes on the inner webs of 

 the feathers. Upper parts, occiput, and back of neck bronzy green. 

 A grey band near the shoulder, and tertials also grey, edged with 

 green. Primaries dark green ; first about equal in width for the 

 entire length ; secondaries bronzy green, margined with lemon-yellow. 

 Tail bronzy green and tipped with yellow, lightest on the edges. Bill 

 yellow, base red ; orbits yellow ; feet pink-red ; iris with inner ring 

 yellow, outer red. Total length 8 inches, wing 4|, tail 3, culmen ^. 



49. Ptilopus geelvinkianus. 



Ptilopus viridis geelvinkianus, Schleg. Nederl. Tijdsch. vol. iv. 

 (1871) p. 23 ; id. Mus. Pays-B. 1873, p. 23. 



Ptilopus musschenbroeckii, Rowl. Ornith. Misc. pt. xiii. pi. 95, 

 p. 114 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vol ix. (1876) p. 195. 



Hab. Islands of Mafor and Meosnoum ( Von Rosenberg, Raffray) : 

 Mysore {Meyer). 



