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Show 1878.] MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON THE GENUS PTILOPUS. 545 that their bird cannot belong to the older known form. Gray not well indicate the distinctive characters of this species in the 'Proceedings' of this Society when he conferred a name upon it (/. ci) ; but it was properly and completely described by Wallace afterwards in ' The Ibis' (/. ci). It can readily be distinguished from its ally by the purple breast, the general plumage of the two species being the same, as are also the dimensions. The female resembles that of Pt. superbus, with rather a deeper coloration. 23. PTILOPUS PEROUSEI. Ptilopus perousei, Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped. (1848) p. 195, pl. 54; Cassin, ibid. (1858) 2nd ed. p. 274, pl. 33; Finsch & Hartl. Faun. Centralpolyn. (1867) p. 110; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 548; Finsch, Journ. fiir Ornith. 1872, p. 44 ; Schleg. Mus. Pays-Bas 1873, p. 10, Columbce. Ptilinope de Marie, Hombr. & Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, pl. 29. fig. 2. Columba kurukuru superba, Hombr. & Jacq. Ann. Scien. Nat. (1841) torn. xvi. p. 316. Ptinilopus marice, Jacq. & Puch. Voy. Pole Sud (1853), torn. iii. p. 115. Kurukuru samoensis, Des Murs & Prev. Voy. Venus, Zool. p. 247. Type examined. Ptilopus marice, Bon. Compt. Rend. (1854) torn, xxxix. p. 877; id. Iconog. Pig. (1857) pl. 26, ad. et juv.; id. Consp. A v. vol. ii. p. 22. sp. 10. Ptilonopus marice, Gray, List Columb. (1856) p. 4; Reich. Tauben, p. 96, pl. 240. fig. 2586; id. List B.Trop. Isl. p. 37 (1859). Ptilinopus ceesarinus, Hartl. Journ. fiir Ornith. 1864, p. 413, juv. Ptilinopus perousei, Cass. Expl. Exped. (1858) p. 274, pl. 33 ; Reich. Tauben, Supp. p. 203, nov. taf. 38-40 ; Finsch & Hartl. Faun. Centralpolyn. (1867) p. 110, t. xi. fig. 1 ; Graffe, Journ. fiir Ornith. 1870, pp. 122 & 408; Finsch, Journ. fiir Ornith. 1872, p. 44. Ptilinopus marice, Finsch &Hartl. Journ. fiir Ornith. 1870, p. 131. Ptilonopus perousei, Whitmee, Ibis, 1875, p. 441. Hab. Ovalau (Filhol) ; Upolu, Hapai (Graffe) ; Samoan Islands, Viti-Levu (Graffe); Wakaia, Mokani, Vanua Levu, Loma Loma, Kandavu, Mango (Layard); Fiji Islands; Tonga or Friendly Islands. This species was first described by Peale (I. ci) under the name here adopted, and afterwards by Hombron and Jacquinot (I. c.) as " Ptilinope de Marie," still later latinized by Jacquinot and Pucheran (I. c.) as Ptinilopusl marice. Peale's appellation, however, has undoubted priority. Mr. Peale found it in the mountain-gorges of the Feejee Islands, but not abundant. The native name, Manu-ma, means shame or modest bird. It is one of the most beautiful and curiously marked members of this genus. The young are so differently coloured from the adult that they might easily be mistaken for a different species. |