Order COLUMBIFOEMES 
No. 26. 
Family TEEEONIDJE. 
PTILINOPUS SUPERBUS. 
PUEPLE-CROWNED FRUIT-PIGEON. 
(Plate 24.) 
COLUMBA STJPERBA Temmiiick et Knip, Les Pigeons, p. 75, PI. XXXI. (1811). Otaheti.* 
Columha superba Temminck et Knip, Les Pigeons, p. 75, PI. XXXI. (1811) ; Temminck, Pig. 
et Gall., I., p. 277 (1813). 
Columba cyariovirens Lesson, Voy. Coq., Zook, PI. 42, f. 1 (1826), Vol. I., p. 713 (1830). 
Ptilinopus superbus Stephens in Shaw’s Gen. Zook, XIV., p. 279 (1826) ; Gould, B. Austr., 
V., PI. 57 (1848) ; Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S. W., I., p. 182 (1876) ; id., Tab. List Austr. B., 
pp. 17, 30 (1888) ; Robinson and Laverock, Ibis, p. 646 (1900). 
Ptilinopus cyanovirens Selby, Nat. Libr., Pigeons, p. 109, PI. 5 (1835), 
Ptilonopus leucogaster Swainson, Classif. B., II., p. 347 (1837). 
Ptilonopus cyanovirens Gray, Gen. B., II., p. 467 (1844), 
Ptilonopus superbus, id., ib., p. 467 ; Biggies, Handb. B. Austr., PI. 87 (1877). 
Lamprotreron superba Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., XL., p. 216 (1855) ; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs 
Brit. Mus., I., p. 84 (1901) ; Mathews, Handl. B. Austral., p. 9 (1908). 
Lamprotreron superbus Gould, Handb. B. Austr., II., p. 108 (1865); Ramsay, P.Z.S., 
p. 114 (1876) ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 269 (1889) ; id., Viet. Nat., 
XXIIL, p. 53 (1906). 
Cyanotreron cyanovirens Bonaparte, Consp. Av., II., p. 23 (1855). 
Kurukuru superbus Des Murs and Prevost, Voy. “ Venus,” Zook, pp. 231, 268 (1849). 
Ptilopus superba Rosenberg, Reis, naar Zuidoostereil, p. 81 (1867). 
Lamprotreron porphyrostictus Gould, Ann. & Mag. N.H. (4), XIII., p. 137 (1874) (Cape York). 
Ptilopus superbus Sclater, P.Z.S., p. 109 (1877) ; Eorbes, P.Z.S., p. 126 (1878) ; Elliott, P.Z.S., 
p. 542 (1878) ; Salvadori, P.Z.S., p. 62 (1879) ; Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., IV., p. 74 
(1879) ; id., ib., VIII., p. 28 (1883) ; id., ib., (2), L, p. 1151 (1887) ; Salvadori, Cat. B. 
Brit. Mus., XXI., p. 112 (1893); North, B. County Cumberland, p. 105 (1898); 
Campbell, Nest and Eggs Austr. B., p. 664 (1901) ; Hall, Key B. Austr., p. 69 (1906) ; 
Le Souef, Wild Life in Austr., p. 361 (1907) ; Littler, Handb. B. Tasmania, p. 101 
(1910). 
This is not the correct locality ; probably Halmahera is the correct one. 
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