568 MR. 1). G. ELLIOT ON THE GENUS PTILOPUS. [May 7, 



love for natural history which has always characterized him in other 

 parts of the world in which his lot has been temporarily cast. 



Male. Head and neck greenish yellow ; under tail-coverts bright 

 yellow. Thighs and lower part of abdomen grey. Rest of 

 plumage of body and wings dark green, with a golden gloss upon back 

 and chest. Primaries are edged with yellow on outer webs, and, 

 together with the secondaries, have nearly all the inner webs golden 

 yellow; the first primary is narrowed gradually towards the tip. 

 Bill blue-black, tip livid ; legs dark crimson ; iris yellowish. Length 

 7f inches, wing A\, tail 2\, culmen § (skin). 



Female. Like the male, but less brilliant generally. 



60. Ptilopus victor. 



Chryscena victor, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 18/1, p. 642; Layard, 

 Proc Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 437; Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, 

 p. 557; Rowl. Ornith. Misc. pt. v. pi. ; Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeff. 

 Heft xii. (1876) p. 10; Lay. Ibis, 1876, p. 151; Finsch, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 736. 



Native name Buli ndamu (Layard). 



Hub. Fiji Islands, Bua (Filhol) ; Vanua Levu, Taviuni, Ngami, 

 Lanthala (Layard). 



Layard says that this Dove is the glory of the forest of Taviuni, 

 and is also found in Lanthala and Rambi Islands, also on Vanua 

 Levu, about Bua, Ndreketti, &c. The young males would be mis- 

 taken for females, but that the vent is more orange. They breed 

 about December or November, making a rude platform of small 

 twigs for a nest about ten feet from the ground, and lay two eggs, 

 axis 1" 4"', diam. 1 ", pure white in hue. The species feeds on 

 many sorts of small and large berries and fruits. 



Male. Head and throat dull olive-green. Entire rest of plumage 

 bright orange-carmine. Under surface of wings bright yellow. 

 Primaries greenish yellow, edged with orange ; first not narrowed. 

 Tail, which is very short and almost hidden by the upper-coverts, 

 brownish orange, graduating into pure orange at the tip. Bill and 

 feet black. Total length 7 inches, wing 4^, tail 2\, culmen %. 



Female. Head yellowish green, lightest upon the throat. Entire 

 plumage of body rich green ; inner webs of primaries and secondaries 

 broadly margined with orange ; outer webs edged with the same 

 colour. Under tail-coverts orange, with the centre of the feathers 

 green. Bill black, tip yellow ; feet black. 



61. Ptilopus leclancheri. 



Trerolama leclancheri, Bon. Compt. Rend. (1855) torn. xli. p. 

 247; id. Iconog. Pig. (1857) pi. 16. 



Carpophaga leclancheri, Gray, List B. Brit. Mus. (1856) p. 21. 

 sp. 19. 



Leucotreron gironieri, J. Verr. & Des Murs, Ibis, 1862, p. 342, 

 pi. 12,$ ; Wald. Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. ix. p. 213 (1875). 



Ftilopus geversi, Schleg. Ibis, 1863, p. 120. 



Ptilopus hugonianus, Schleg. Nederl. Tijdsch. 1863, p. 60, pi. 3. 



