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Show 1878.] MR. D. G. ELLIOT O N T H E GENUS PTILOPUS. 521 green ; tail green, with an apical grey band above, white beneath 27. b' Shoulders violet-grey, bordered beneath by deep purple; tail green, with a sub-termiual grey bandonlower surface only 28. c'. Shoulders violet-grey ; tail green above, beneath black, with an apical white band 29. d'. Bony protuberance on forehead ; shoulders and patch on back light grey ; tail bright green, apical third ashy grey 30. b. Bluish grey band ou each side of breast; purple spot on centre of abdomen; wing-coverts, scapulars, and tertials tipped. with yellow 31. c. Front, crown and lores, moustaches, and spot on the breast greyish bine ; superciliary stripe, chin, throat, lower parts of abdomen, and under tail-coverts lemon-yellow 32. d. Front and crown bright carmine; sides of head and neck and breast light grey; chin and throat white ; large purplish red spot on lower part of breast; abdomen and under tail-coverts orange 33. e. Head and neck light grey; occiput and back of neck black ; throat yellow. a'. Crissum and short under tail-coverts yellow, long ones carmine 34. b'. Throat-mark narrow; crissum yellow, washed with orange 35. <•*'. Throat-mark narrow; black bar on nape small; crissum orange-yellow 36. d'. Lower parts of abdomen and crissum rich orange 37. /. Head and neck rose-colour, graduating into carmine on the breast, beneath which is a broad white band, followed by another of blackish green ' 38. g. Throat, crown, and sides of face in front scarlet, chin and throat black; middle of breast rose-colour; under tail-coverts chestnut 39. h. Throat white or pale grey. a'. Scapulars and tertials grey, margined with green. a". Top of head bright carmine; mantle, neck, and breast bluish grey ; lower part of breast crossed by a white band, succeeded by a broad one of deep orange; shoulders deep orange 40. b". Forehead deep orange; crown and occiput yellowish green; back and upper part of breast plumbeous; underparts yellowish green 41. c". Shoulders dark purplish red; lower parts of throat dark yellow ; breast dark ochre; tail dark green, with a light-yellow apical band. 1. Top of head and sides of face purplish red 42. 2. Top of head and sides of face olive-yellow 43. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1878, No. XXXIV. Pt. iozonus, p. 547. Pt. humeralis, p. 548. Pt. jobiensis, p. 548. Pt. insolitus, p. 549. Pt. nanus, p. 549. Pt. monachus, p. 550. Pt. pulchellus, p. 551. Pt. melanocephalus, p. 551. Pt. melanospilus, p. 552. Pt. chrysorrhous, p. 553. Pt. xanthorrhous, p. 553. Pt. porphyreus, p. 553. Pt. jambu, p. 554. Pt. wallacei, p. 555. Pt. aurantiifrons, p. 556. Pt. ornatus, p. 556. Pt. gestroi, p. 557. 34 |