Birds of Celebes: Treronidae. 
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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, fem. (I) Prev. & Knip, Pig. n, 1838 — 43, pi. 42. 
b. Kurukuru temminckii (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) Scbl., Ibis 1863, 120; (2) Guillem., P. Z. 8. 1885, 248, 269 (Sulu). 
556; (3) Sharpe, Ibis 1894, 257 (Sulu). 
e. Ptilonopus superba pt. (1) Eiiisch, Neu-Guinea 1865, 176. 
f. Ptilopus superbus pt. (1) SchL, Jfed. Tdscbr. Dierk. 1866, m, 209; (2) id., Mus. P.-B., 
Columbae, 1873, 30, 32 (Cel.); (3) Kosenb., Malay. Arcbip. 1878, 275. 
g. Ptilonopus celebensis (1) Wallace, Malay Arcliip. 1869, 1, 366 (German ed. by A.B. Meyer, 
I, 332). 
h. Ptilonopus formosus (1) Gray, HL. II, 1870, 227, Nr. 9159; (2) Briigg., Abb. Ver. Bremen 
1876, V, 79. 
i. Lamprotreron formosa (1) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VUI, 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 mera”, Malay, Minabassa, iid., (“Wakian pongot”, given by Guillemard 5 
as tbe name of tins ingeon, is that of P. mekumspilus). 
For further references cf. Salvad or i 4. 
Figures and descriptions. Knip a I (Q); W. Blasius III (q^ ad. et juv.); Wallace c 2; 
Briiggem. h 2\ Elliot 1\ Salvadori 4) 
Adult male. General colour above paiTot-green, the inner wing-coverts, scapulars and inner 
quills with an oval black spot near tbe ends; entire head above aster-pui’ple; bind- 
neck and sides of neck dragon’s-blood-red, shading off into tbe green of tbe 
mantle; sides of occiput and ear-coverts green, becoming grey on malar region, 
chin, throat and jugulum; the upper breast rose-purple, the 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 plum-pm’ple; 
on and near the carpal edge a large spot of this colour; sides, thighs and flanks 
green, thighs greyer, flanks tipped with Naples -yellow; abdomen and under tail- 
coverts yellowish white, the inner webs of the latter partly green; centre tail- 
feathers above gi’een, greyish at tip, all tlie lateral tail-feathers blackish, tipped 
with grey, washed with gi’een; tail below dusky greyish, tenninal bar whitish; quills 
above black, washed externally with green, finely edged with yellowish; wings below 
slaty, the fu'st primary much attenuated for 2 cm ca. and incmwed. “Ii’is yellow; 
bill black (Q?) or green or yellow-green (o’); feet coral-red” (Meyer i 2, Guillem. 
d 2, Platen III], (near Manado, Aug. — Sept. 1892: Nat. Coll. — 0 10891). 
Adult female. Above all paiTot-green, except for a patch of aster-purple on crown and 
occiput, and puiqflish black spots on the scapulars and inner coverts; breast green, 
without the rose-purple and the dark plum-purple band of the male ([§] near 
Manado, Aug. — Sept. 1892, Nat. Coll. — C 10892), 
