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



Ptilopus occipitalis, Schleg. Mus. Pays-B. 1873, p. 35, Co- 

 lumbce. 



Hab. Luzon, Philippines {Meyer). 



Bonaparte described a young bird of this species, in the ' Comptes 

 Rendus' (I. c), as Omotreron batilda ; and afterwards, in his ' Icono- 

 graphie des Pigeons,' he figured this specimen as the young of 

 Ptilopus porphyreus ! The type of O. batilda is in the collection of 

 the Paris Museum, and proves to be simply a young bird of P. oc- 

 cipitalis. It is larger than any specimen of porphyreus, of which 

 there is a series before me, even exceeding the adults in its measure- 

 ments, and presents quite a different coloration. The type was 

 brought from the Philippines in 1839 by M. Barrot, but no parti- 

 cular island is indicated. 



Adult. Top and front of head light leaden grey ; sides of face 

 below the eyes and entire back of head purplish red. Throat yel- 

 lowish white ; sides of neck and breast grey, like the top of head. 

 Entire centre of breast, from the lower part of the throat to the ab- 

 domen, ochraceous ; flanks bright green ; a large purplish-red spot in 

 the middle of the abdomen. Crissum grey mingled with white. Upper 

 parts bronzy green, darkest upon the rump and upper tail-coverts. 

 Wings bright green ; primaries and secondaries black on their inner 

 webs, green on their outer and edged with light yellow. Tail bright 

 green, with an apical greyish baud ; under coverts white, with a 

 broad green stripe on their inner webs. Bill red, with light tip ; feet 

 red. Total length llf inches, wing fil, tail 4 \, culmen f . (Specimen 

 figured by Bonaparte, Icon. Pig. pi. 14.) 



Young. Top of head, back of neck, and entire upper parts bronzy 

 green. Throat yellowish white. Sides of head yellowish white, in- 

 terspersed with green. Underparts greyish green, bronze upon the 

 breast. Crissum and under tail-coverts whitish, the latter striped 

 with green. Wings like the back, the secondaries and primaries 

 edged on outer web with yellowish white. Tail bright green, with a 

 greyish-white apical band, which is observed only on the inner 

 webs. Total length 1 1 inches, wing 6, tail 4, culmen f . (Type of 

 batilda, Bon.) 



63. Ptilopus gularis. 



Columba gularis, Quoy & Gaim. Voy. Astrol. Zool. vol. i. p. 247, 

 pi. xxix. (1830). 



La Mentonniere, Less. Comp. Buff. torn. hi. Ois. (1837). 



Columba gularis, Knip & Prev. Pig. pi. xi. 



Laryngogramma gularis, Reich. Tauben, p. 102, pi. 233. fig. 1297; 

 id. suppl. p. 203, nov. Taf. iv. fig. 44. 



Leucotreron gularis, Bon. Consp. Av. vol. ii. p. 15 (1857) ; Wald. 

 Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. viii. (1872) p. 83; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. 

 Gen. (1875) vol. ix. p. 670. 



Ptilonopus gularis, Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. 377. 



Ptilopus gularis, Schleg. Mus. Pays-B. (1873) p. 57, Columbce. 



Hab. Celebes. — Menado ( Wallace) ; Tondano (Forst en) ; Goron- 

 talo, Wawou, Bone, Modelido {Von Rosenberg). 





