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present species. Gmelin's description also applies sufficiently well to 

 this bird, and his mingling or confounding several species together, as 

 varieties, does not, in the smallest degree, invalidate the application 

 of his name to the species clearly indicated by Latham, 



2. Ptilinopus fasciatus, Peale, 



Plilinopus fasciatus, Peale, Zool. U. S. Exp. Exp. Viiicenaes, Birds, p. 193 (first 

 edition, 1848).* 



Atlas, Ornithology, Plate XXXT. Adult male and female. 

 Knip & Prevost's Pigeons, II, Plate XXXIV. 



This bird, long known to naturalists, has been erroneously regarded 

 as Coiumba imrpurata, Gmelin. It is figured in Knip and Prevost's 

 Pigeons, II, PI. XXXIV, and is carefully and accurately described by 

 them, and by Temminck, in Hist. Nat. des Pigeons et des Gallinaces, 

 I, p. 280 (1813). With Temminck the error originated, the name, 

 Golumha imrpurata, having been first applied by him to this species 

 in his work, to which we have referred, but which is properly appli- 

 cable to the bird known as Piilinojms taitensls, as can readily be ascer- 

 tained on examination of the original description by Latham, in Synop- 

 sis of Birds, II, pt. II, p, 626. Gmelin, apparently, merely gave the name 

 parpurata on the faith of Latham's description, as stated in the preced- 

 ing article. 



Notwithstanding that both the present species and Ptilinopus tai- 



* "General form rounded; a rich purple spot reaching from the crown to the bill, 

 slightly margined with yellow ; head, neck, and breast cinereous (in young bii-ds pale 

 green), with a purple bar, fading into the yellow of the vent feathers, which are black 

 at the base, and white near the tips. Back and rump bronze-green; wings and tail 

 above clear golden-green ; the scapulars and secondaries slightly edged with yellow ; 

 under parts of the wings and tail plumbeous ; quill-shafts black ; the web of the first 

 primary very narrow at the tip ; tail rounded ; feathers blue-green, with golden reflec- 

 tions on the outer web, black on the inner, and tipped with yellow above, yellowish- 

 white beneath ; shafts black ; legs covered with olive-green feathers ; feet dirty-lake ; 

 bill emerald-green ; irides yellow. 



" Total length nine and one-fourth inches ; extent of wings sixteen and one-fourth 

 inches; wings, from the carpal joint, five and four-tenths inches; tail three and one- 

 tenth inches ; tarsi nine-tenths of an inch ; bill one-half an inch ; to the angle of the 

 mouth nineteen-twenticths of an inch. Male." (Peale, as above.) 



