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for them is that they are on an average slightly smaller than those of the Sangi 

 Islands. 



-■ 262. PTILOPUS TEMMINOKI (Des Murs & Prev.). 



Painted Pigeon. 



a. Columba superba, fern. (I) Prev. & Knip, Pig. EE, 1838—43, pi. 42. 



b. Kurakuru temmincku (1) Des Murs & Prev., Voy. Venus, Zool. 1846—55, 236, 268. 



c. Ptilonopus formosus (1) Gray, P. Z. S. 1860, 360; (2) Wall, Ibis 1865, 379. 



d. Ptilopus formosus (1) Schl., Ibis 1863, 120; f2) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 248, 269 fSulu), 



556; (3) Sharpe, Ibis 1894, 257 (Sulu). 



e. Ptilonopus superba pt. (1) Finsch, Neu-Guinea 1865, 176. 



f. Ptilopus superbus pt. (1) Schl., Ned. Tdsclir. Dierk. 1866, EH, 209; (2) id., Mus. P.-B., 



Columbae, 1S73, 30, 32 (Cel.); (3) Eosenb., Malay. Arcbip. 1878, 275. 



g. Ptilonopus celebensis (1) Wallace, Malay Arcbip. 1869,";I, 366 (German ed. by A.B.Meyer, 



I, 332). 

 h. Ptilonopus formosus (1) Gray, BX. 11, 1870, 227, Nr. 9159; (2) Brugg., Abb. Ver. Bremen 



1876, V, 79. 

 i. Lamprotreron formosa (1) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, YUI, 82; (2) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 135. 

 Ptilopus temmincki (1) Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, 544; (2) Salvad., ib. 1879, 62; (2>'-'') id., Orn. 

 Pap. n, 1881, 11, 12; (III) W. Bias., Z. ges. Orn. 1885, 302, pi. XIV; (4) 

 Salvad., Cat. B. XXI, 1893, 115; (5) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Nr. 8, 

 p. 15; (6) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 163. 

 "Ngul-ngul werreng", near Manado, Nat. Coll. 

 "Wakian kapala mora", Malay, Minahassa, iid., ("Wakian pongot", given by Guillemard rf5 



as the name of tbis pigeon, is that of P. melanospilus). 

 For further references of. Salvadori 4. 

 Figures and descriptions. Knip a I [Q.]\ W. Blasius III [rf ad. et juv.); Wallace c 2; 



Briiggem. h 2; Elliot 1; Salvadori 4y 

 Adult male. General colour above parrot-green, tbe inner wing-coverts, scapulai's and inner 

 quills with an oval black spot near tbe ends; entire bead above aster-pui-ple ; bind- 

 neck and sides of neck dragon's-blood-red, sbading off into tbe green of the 

 mantle; sides of occiput and ear-coverts green, becoming grey on malar region, 

 chin, throat and jugulum; tbe upper breast i-ose-pui-ple, tbe feathers on chest 

 and jugulum forked at the tip (as if the middle part of the web had been cut out 

 with scissors); passing on lower breast into a broad band of blackish plimi-purple; 

 on and near the carpal edge a large spot of this coloin; sides, thighs and flanks 

 green, thighs greyer, flanks tipped with Naples-yeUow; abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts yellowish white, the inner webs of the latter partly gi-een; centre tail- 

 feathers above green, greyish at tip, all the lateral tail-feathers blackish, tipped 

 with grey, washed with green; tail below dusky greyish, terminal bar whitish; quills 

 above black, washed externally with green, finely edged with yellowish; wings below 

 slaty, the fii-st primary much attenuated for 2 cm ca. and incurved. "Lis yellow; 

 bill black (g?) or green or yellow-green (cf); feet coral-red" (Meyer 12, Guillem. 

 cl 2, Platen ///), 'near Manado, Aug.— Sept. 1892: Nat. Coll. — C 10891). 

 Adult female. Above all parrot-green, except for a patch of aster-purple on crown and 

 occiput, and pui-phsb black spots on the scapulars and inner coverts; breast green, 

 without the rose-purple and the dark pliuu-purple band of the male ([§] near 

 Manado, Aug.— Sept. 1892, Nat. Coll. — C 10892. 



