502 Bii'ds of Celebes: Treronidae. 



distinct. In Celebes its compatriot, O. ivallacei, may be distinguished from it by 

 its two middle tail-feathers being yellow-green, not grey with a subterminal bar, 

 by the blackish bar crossing the other tail-feathers near the middle in O. wallacei 

 and close up to the end in O. vernans, by the larger bill of O. wallacei and, in 

 the males of that species, by the green neck, maroon back, and by the absence 

 of the orange patch. 



Local differences in O. vernans have been suggested and species named 

 accordingly, but Count Salvadori, after an exhaustive study of the literature 

 and 130 specimens in the British Museum, unites them again, remarking that 

 "some specimens have the forehead and throat more or less tinged with greenish, 

 but they are not confined to a particular locality". 



GENUS PTILOPUS Sw. 



The Painted Pigeons vary in size from the dimensions of a small Thrush 

 to those of a Eock-dove. The tarsus is feathered* almost to the foot. Wing 

 moderate, relatively shorter than in Osmotreron and Carpophaga. Tail rounded, 

 shorter than the wing, 14 rectrices (in one subgenus 16). Colour chiefly green, 

 patches of other bright tints generally occurring on the head, throat, breast, 

 or elsewhere. In two of the three subgenera occurring in Celebes, Leucotreron^ 

 and Lamprotreron the first primary is suddenly attenuated in its terminal third, 

 and to some extent in the subgenus Ptilopus also. 



The genus ranges from the Malay Peninsula throughout the Archipelago 

 to Australia and the high islands of Polynesia. 



-^ * 254. PTILOPUS FISCHERI (Briigg.). 

 North Celebes Red-eared Fruit-pigeon. 



a. Ptninopus fischeri (I) Brugg., Abh. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 82, pi. IV. 



Ptilopus fischeri (1) Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, 571; (2) Meyer, Ibis 1881, 170, part. (N. Cel); 

 (3) W. Bias., J. f. O. 1883, 120, 121 pt.; (4) Salvad., Cat. B. XXI, 1893, 74; 

 (5j M. & Wg., Abh. Mils. Dresd. 1895, Nr. 8, p. 15. 



b. Ptilopus (Rhamphiculus) fischeri (1) Oust., Natiu-aliste 1880, 324; (2) Echw. & Schalow, 



J. f. O. 1881, 76; (3) Oust., Noiiv. Aixh. Miis. 1885, (2) VHI, 304. 



c. Leucotreron fischeri (1) P. & F. Sarasin, Z. Erdk. Berlin 1895, XXX, 229. 

 Figure and descriptions. Briiggemann a J; Elliot i; Salvadori 4. 



Adult male. G-eneral colour above bright grass-green, the lower back brighter ; head above 

 and nape whitish grey; a patch in front of and below the eye, on ear-coverts 

 and sides of occiput dark maroon-puiple , joining a collar round hind neck of 

 dark slate; hind neck and mantle dark grey, passing into the green of the back, 

 rather lighter grey on sides of neck, jugulum and upper breast; chin and malar 

 region wliite, biiffy on upper tliroat; lower breast greemsh ochraceous; abdomen 

 and flanks darker green, with buff terminal fringes to the feathers; thighs and tarsi 

 greenish slaty, buff on hinder side; under tail-coverts buff-white, grey-green on 



