187&.] MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON THE GENUS PTILOPUS. 565 



Pt. spcciosus, it differs conspicuously from all the members of this 

 particular section of the genus Ptilopus in having the band which 

 crosses the breast all yellow — and in this respect differs from all the 

 others, as it is the only one so marked, the others having this band 

 white, or yellow and white. It is a very beautiful species. 



Male. General plumage green, with small dark blue spots on the 

 scapulars. A broad band across the chest, which, together with the 

 lower part of abdomen, crissum, and under tail-coverts, is light yellow. 

 Top of head and middle of abdomen lilac. Primaries leaden grey, 

 with the tips light grey, nearly white. Bill black, feet dark red! 

 Total length 7\ inches, wing 4£, tail 2\. 



Female. Nearly uniform green ; middle of belly and crissum 

 yellow. 



57. Ptilopus luteovirens. 



Colombe jaune, Hombr. & Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, pi. 1 2. f. 2. 

 Columba luteovirens, Hombr. & Jacq. Ann. Sc. 2 e ser vol xvi 

 (1841) p. 315. 



Colombe de Felicie, Hombr. & Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, pi. 12. f. 1, 

 juv.^ 



Columba felicie, Hombr. & Jacq. Ann. Sc. 2 e ser. vol. xv. (1841) 

 p. 316, juv. 



Columba flam, Gray, Gen. B. vol. ii. p. 4/0 (1844-49). 



Calcenas luteovirens, Hartl. Wiegm. Arch. 1852, p. 134. 



Ptinilopusl luteovirens, Jacq. & Puch. Voy. Pole Sud, vol iii 

 p. 112 (text) ( 1853). 



Ptinilopus ! felicice, Jacq. & Puch. Voy. Pole Sud, (1853), text, 

 juv. 



Ptilonopus luteovirens, Gray, List B. Trop. Isl. (1859) p. 38. 



Chryscenas luteovirens, juv. felicice, Reich. Taub. Suppl. p. 203, 

 Taf. nov. no. iii. fig. 32. 



Chryscenas luteovirens, Reich. Taub. p. 90, t. 245. fig. 5594 t 

 263. figs. 1469-70. & 



Chryscena luteovirens, Bon. Compt. Rend. (1854) torn, xxxix. p. 

 879 ; id. Consp. Av. vol. ii. p. 28 ; id. Iconogr. Pia;. (1857) pi. 31 ; 

 Finsch & Haiti. Faun. Centralpolyn. (1867) p. 134, Taf. ii. fig. 4, 

 juv. ; Layard, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 436; Finsch, Proc. Zool.' 

 Soc. 1875, p. 557 ; Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeff. Heft xii. (1876) 

 p. 10. v ' 



Omotreron felicice, Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. vol. ii. p. 27 (1857), juv. 



Hab. Fiji Islands, Balaou {Hombr. §• Jacq., type) ; Ovalau (Lav- 

 ard) ; Viti Levou (Godefroy). 



This species, according to Layard, dwells in the forest-covered 

 parts of the island of Ovalau and the Rewa. It breeds in October, 

 November, and December. On account of the colour of their 

 plumage it is difficult to see them in the trees ; but their presence 

 is betrayed by their voice, which sounds something like a bark. It 

 feeds on berries, and is fond of the seeds of araliaceous trees and 

 creepers of the genus Melastoma. 



This species is the type of Bonaparte's genus Chryscena, the chief 



