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When young, this species, judging from an example kindly lent to us by 

 the Leyden Museum, bears a plumage the green of which resembles that of 

 P.Jischeri of the Northern Peninsvila; we are inclined to regard P. meridionalis, 

 therefore, as an offshoot of P.Jischeri, which has undergone strongly pronounced 

 changes in the South of the island. In first describing the Southern form (h 1), 

 we made it a subsiiecies of P.Jischeri; this step was premature as the two races 

 are not yet known to intergrade, and we must wait for the series of inter- 

 mediate birds, which the mountains of Central Celebes are pretty certain to 

 furnish, before uniting these well-marked extremes. 



Although said to have come from Macassar, there can be little doubt that 

 this Pigeon, like P.Jischeri, is a mountain-species, and that it was obtained in 

 the high hills east or south of Macassar. 



+ * 256. PTILOPUS GULARIS (Q. G). 



Maroon-chinned Fruit-pigeon. 



a. Columba gularis (I) Quoy & Gaim., Voy. Astrol. Zool. 1830, I, 247, pi. 29; (11) Prev. 



& Knip, Pig. 1838—41, pi. XI; (3) Schl., Handl. Dierk. 1857, 411. 



b. Ptilinopus gularis (1) Less., Compl. de Buff. Vm, 1837, Ois. 39; (2) Briigg., Abli. Ver. 



Bremen 1876, V, 82; (3) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1897, 165. 



c. Leucotreron gularis (1) Bp., Coinpt. Eend. X XX TX, 1854, 876; (2) id., Consp. EE, 1854, 



15; (3) Wald., Tr. Z. S. VTH, 1872, 83; (4) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, 

 670; (5) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 135; (6) W. Bias., Z. ges. Om. 1886, 131. 



d. Ptilonopus gularis (1) Wall, Ibis 1860, 141; (2) id., Ibis 1861, 348; (3) id.. Ibis 1865, 



377, 396; (4) Finsch, Neu Guinea 1865, 176. 



e. Laryngogramma gularis (I) Rchb., Tauben 1862, t. 233, f. 2197.') 



PtUopus gularis (1) Schl, De Dierent. 1864, 210; (2) id., Mus. P.-B., Oolumbae, 1873, 37; 

 (3) Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, 570; (4) Rosenb., Malay. Arcliip. 1878, 275; (5) Salvad., 

 Cat. B. XXI, 1893, 78; (6) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Nr. 8, p. 15; (7) 

 iid., ib. 1896, Nr. 2, p. 19. 



"Pombo sangi" (Sangi Dove!), Malay, Minahassa, Meyer c 5. 



"Wakian sangir", Malay, near Manado, Nat. Coll. 



"Eirihan", near Manado, iid. 



''Malomitti"' [Gorontalo Distr.] v. Rosenb. 4. 



"Takuka ise ise", Tonkean, E. Celebes, Nat. Coll. 



For further synonymy and references of. Salvador! 5. 



Figures and descriptions. Quoy & Gaimard a I; Prevost & Knip a 11; Reichenbach e I; 

 Bonaparte c 2; Scblegel 2; Salvadori 5. 



Adult male. Above bright grass-green (bt. between grass-green and parrot-green: Ridgway, 

 pi. X, f. 1 & 4), primaries bluer; head and face French grey, passing on occiput 

 and hind neck into the green of the back; chin and middle of upper throat 

 maroon; throat and breast grey with a buff tinge; on middle of lower breast 

 a broad patch of buff; sides of body greyish green, thighs greyer; flanks and 

 lower abdomen and under tail-coverts cinnamon-rufous; under wing-coverts 

 grass-green, the inner ones and quills below brownish .slate; tail below brownish 



') The iigui-e given by Reichenbach in "Novitiae", p. 203, t. 44 is not taken from L. gularis (Q. & G.). 



