ON THE GENUS PTILOPUS. 



(PTILONOPUS, Swains.). 

 By Mr. G. D. ROWLEY. 



[Continued from p. 117.] 



PTILOPUS SPECIOSUS (Von Rosenberg) 



AND 



PTILONOPUS BELLUS (Sclater). 

 (Plate CIV.) 



Ptilopus speciosus, Schlegel, Nederl. Tijdschr. v. d. Dierk. iv. p. 23 (1871) ; Meyer, Sitzungsb. 

 d. k. Akad. Wien, Ixx. p. 128 (1874) ; Rosenberg, Reistochten, p. 143, pi. xiv. fig. 1 

 (1875) ; Salvador!, " Prodr. Col." Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. p. 197 (1876). 



At the risk of tiring my readers, after having already figured several 

 Pigeons, I cannot refrain from taking one more ; for the richness of the 

 Malay archipelago in this beautiful group appears to be inexhaustible, and 

 P. speciosus equals and perhaps exceeds every other by the extraordinary 

 arrangement of its lovely colours. 



This bird is from the islands of Geelvink Bay, in the north of New 

 Guinea. It had already been discovered by Von Rosenberg, on the island of 

 Mafoor, in the year 1869 ; nevertheless it is still rare in collections, and the 

 male has been only imperfectly figured. 



