Order COLUMBIFORMES 
No. 24. 
Family TRERONIDM. 
PTILINOPUS REGINA REGINA. 
RED-CROWNED FRUIT-PIGEON. 
(Plate 22.)* 
Ptilinopus pueptjratus (var. regina) Swainson, Zool. Journ., I., p. 474 (1825), Australia. 
Ptilino'pus purpuratus (var. regina) Swainson, Zool. Journ., I., p. 474 (1825) 
Columha purpurata (not auth.) Jardine and Selby, lU. Orn., II., PI. 70 (1829). 
Ptilinopus swainsonii Gould, P.Z.S., p. 18 (1842) ; id., B. Austr., V., PI. 55 (1848) ; id., 
Handb. B. Austr., II., p. 106 (1865) ; Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., I., p. 182 (1876) ; 
id.. Tab. List Austr. B., p, 17 (1888). 
Ptilonopus swainsoni Gray, Gen. B., II., p. 466 (1849). 
Ptilopus swainsoni Bonaparte, Consp. Av., II., p. 19 (1854) ; Salvador!, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., 
XXI., p. 95 (1893) ; Campbell, Viet. Nat., XIV., p. 5 (1897) ; North, B. County 
Cumberland, p. 104 (1898) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. B., p. 661 (1901) ; 
Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs Brit. Mus., I., p. 83 (1901) ; Hall, Key B. Austr., p. 69 (1906) ; 
Mathews, Handl. B. Austral., p. 8 (1908). 
KuruTcuru swainsonii Des Murs and Prevost, Voy. “ Venus,” Zool., pp. 256, 269 (1849). 
Ptilopus regina Elliott, P.Z.S., p. 531 (1878). 
Ptilinopus regina Robinson and Laverock, Ibis, p. 646 (1900). 
Distribution. Queensland and New South Wales. 
Adult male. ^ General colour above green, the scapulars dark blue subterminally and 
margined with golden yellow ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and 
greater coverts darker green, edged with yellow ; bastard- wing and primary- 
coverts dark green with brown on the inner webs ; primary-quills dark brown on the 
inner webs, outer webs and tips green, narrowly edged with whitish on the outer 
quiUs, becoming yeUow on the inner ones ; secondary-quills more green and ipore 
broadly margined with yellow ; middle tail-feathers green, tipped with yellow, the 
outer feathers dark brown on the inner webs ; forehead and crown magenta, bordered 
by a white line in front of the eye, followed by a yellow one, which skirts the 
magenta in a circular hne on the hinder-crown ; occiput and hind-neck green, with 
a hoary wash ; chin white ; sides of face, sides of neck and throat pale grey ; the 
feathers of the chest bifurcated, green at the base and tipped with greyish, imparting 
a streaked appearance ; a small patch of magenta on the middle of the abdomen, 
which separates the orange-red of the lower abdomen from the green of the chest ; 
feathers of the vent yellow ; sides of body, flanks and thighs green, the feathers of 
the lower flanks tipped with yellow, forming a yellow tuft on each of the thighs ; 
* Ths Plate is lettered Ptilopus stvainsoni. 
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