,. collected in Dutch New Guinea. 297 



, Iris, inner ring orange, outer ring blood-oranoe ; eyelid 

 yellow ; bill yellow, sulphur-yellow, or greenish-yellow ; cere 

 brown ; feet purplish or magenta. 



Ptilonopus gestroi kaporensis was described by Messrs. 

 Rothschild and Hartert (N. Z. viii. p. 105, 1901) from 

 a single female specimen obtained at Kapaur, south of 

 McOluer Gulf, by Doherty. They remark : " It is a most 

 distinct form, and most ornithologists would call it a good 

 species." Subsequently, however {op. cit. xx. p. 478, 1913), 

 the same authors state : " We now believe that our supposed 

 kaporensis is only a very highly coloured old male ■" ! The 

 type of P. g. kaporensis was said to differ from the typical 

 form chiefly in having the forehead and sinciput to beyond 

 the eyes brownish-orange, instead of a greenish-orange- 

 yellow ; the remainder of the crown, occiput^ and sides of 

 the head greenish-orange instead of greenish-orange-yellow ; 

 and the mantle deep orange-brown instead of green washed 

 with olivaceous-orange. 



Our series clearly proves that these differences are indi- 

 vidual, and are no doubt partly due to age. The colour of 

 the fore-neck in males varies from orange-yellow to deep 

 orange, and in the females from dark yellow to orange- 

 yellow. The colour of the upper mantle and breast also 

 varies from orange-olive to deep orange-brown. 



"This is a common Fruit-Pigeon, but only found in 

 numbers when a fruit-bearing tree is met with. In De- 

 cember at Parimau the Dyaks and I discovered a tree where 

 literally hundreds of this species and of P. humeralis came 

 to feed, especially in the early morning, and on one occasion 

 I shot no less than eight. Unfortunately the tree was an 

 unusually tall one, and most of the shots fired were in- 

 effective. The call consists of five or six quickly repeated 

 ' coos/ and the flight is swift and straight." — C. H. B. G. 



Ptilonopus perlatus zonurus. 



Ptilopus zonurus Salvad. Cat. xxi. p. 133 (1893) ; Ogilvie- 

 Grant, P. & P. p. 295 (1912) ; id. Ibis, 1913, p. 106. 



Ptilinopus perlata zonurns van Oort, p. 65 (1909) ; Roths. 

 & Hartert, N. Z. xx. p. 478 (1913). 



