Birds of Celebes: Treronidae. 
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When young, this species, judging from an example kindly lent to us by 
the Leyden Museum, hears a plumage the green of which resembles that of 
P.Jischeri of the Northern Peninsula; we are inclined to regard P . mendionalis, 
therefore, as an offshoot of P. fischeri, which has undergone strongly pronounced 
changes in the South of the island. In first describing the Southern form (h 1), 
we made it a subspecies of P.fischm\ 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.fischeri, 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; (8) Schl., Handl. Dierk. 1857, 411. 
b. Ptilinopus gularis (]) Less., Compl. de Buff. Vin, 1837, Ois. 39; (2) Briigg., Abh. Ver. 
Bremen 1876, V, 82; (3) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1897, 165. 
c. Leucotreron gularis (1) Bp., Oompt. Bend. XXXTX, 1854, 876; (2) id., Consp. H, 1854, 
15; (3) Wald., Tr. Z. S. ViH, 1872, 83; (4) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, 
670; (5) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 135; (6) W. Bias., Z. ges. Orn. 1886, 131. 
d. Ptilonopus gularis (1) Wall., Ibis 1860, 141; (2) id.. Ibis 1861, 348; (3) id.. Ibis 1865, 
377, 396; (4) Pinscb, Neii Guinea 1865, 176. 
e. Laryngogramma gularis (I) Bcbb., Tauben 1862, t. 233, f. 2197.') 
Ptilopus gularis (1) Schl., De Dierent. 1864, 210; (2) id., Mus. P.-B., Oolumbae, 1873, 37; 
(3) Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, 570; (4) Bosenb., Malay. Archip. 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” [Goi’ontalo Distr.] v. Bosenb. 4. 
“Takuka ise ise”, Tonkean, E. Celebes, Nat. Coll. 
For further synonymy and references cf. Salvador! 5. 
Figures and descriptions. Quoy & Gaimard a J; Prevost & Knip a //; Beicbenbach e J; 
Bonaparte c 2; Scblegel 2; Salvador! 5. 
Adult male. Above bright grass-green (lit. between grass-green and parrot-green: Bidgway, 
pi. X, f. 1 & 4), prunaries bluer; bead and face French grey, passing on occiput 
and bind neck into the green of the back; chin and middle of upper throat 
maroon; throat and breast gi-ey with a buff tinge; on middle of lower breast 
a bi’oad 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 figure given by Reichenbach in “Novitiae”, p. 203, t. 44 is not taken from L. gularis (Q. & G.). 
