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Hab. Batchian, Kaioa Island, Ternate, Gilolo, Morty Island 

 [Wall). 

 Iris dark ; feet red ; bill greenish. Sexes different. 



c. Breast-plumes bifid or decomposed. 

 [Lamprotreron, Ptilopus, Bp.) 



27. Ptilonopus superbus, Temm. ; Knip, Pig. i. t. 33 ; 

 Bp. Consp. ii. p. 18. 



Hab. Amboyna, Ceram, Batcbian, Gilolo, Waigiou, Mysol, 

 Aru Islands, New Guinea [Wall). 



Bill olive-green, tip yellowish ; feet pink ; claws pale ; iris 

 yellow. Length 9| in. Sexes different. 



Columba cyanovirens, Less., is probably the female of this 

 species. 



28. Ptilonopus formosus, G. B. Gray. 



Similis P. superbo (Temm.), sed fascia pectorali purpureo-nigro 

 latiore et antice dilute purpurea, spatio postoculari viridi 

 minus dilatato, rostro paullo minore. 



Rich green ; forehead and crown purple pink ; nape and sides 

 of the neck, to the shoulders, rufous orange ; a narrow space be- 

 hind the eyes and the ear-coverts green ; chin and throat ashy 

 white ; the forked feathers of the neck and breast purplish at the 

 base, which becomes pure pale purple on the upper part of the 

 breast, and shades into the deep purple-black band which crosses 

 the middle of the breast ', middle of belly and vent yellowish 

 white ; flanks green, crossed by a white band above the thighs j 

 under tail-coverts white, yellow-tinged, and with green stripes 

 and spots ; a large patch on the shoulders and a spot on each of 

 the scapulars, tertiaries, and adjacent wing-coverts deep purple; 

 tail blackish, the feathers edged with green and purple, and a 

 whitish band at the tip ; pi'imaries black, white-edged ; seconda- 

 ries and greater coverts green-margined and yellow-edged. Iris 

 yellow ; bill olive-horny ; feet pinky-red. 



Female. Bather deeper coloured than the same sex in P. su- 

 perbus. Total length 10| in. ; wing 5 in. 



Hab. Macassar and Menado (Celebes) [Wall.). 



Remarks. — Mr. George Robert Gray indicated this bird as 

 distinct from P. superbus, in his list of Moluccan Birds (Proc. 



