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Show 528 MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON THE GENUS PTILOPUS. [May 7, general appearance the preceding one, differs from all others in the colour of the spot upon the abdomen. In the type this is mixed with rufous and yellow, the latter colour perhaps predominating; but in a second specimen, also in the Paris collection, the spot is more rufous, and extends over a greater space. I regard this latter as a more adult individual. It unfortunately bears no precise locality, but has merely marked upon the stand, " donne par la Societe des Missions Catholique de l'Oceanie en 1849." The type was brought by Hombron and Jacquinot from the Samoan Islands in their Voyage au Pole Sud. The exact island is not given on the specimens by these travellers; but Bonaparte has stated Vavao to be the habitat. I am not aware how he ascertained this island to be the one in which the specimen described by him was procured. Adult. Front and crown rosy purple, faintly margined with yellow ; throat yellowish white ; occiput and back of neck pale green ; sides of neck and breast greenish grey ; flanks and abdomen pale green, with a rufous spot tinged with yellow in the centre of the latter ; crissum and under tail-coverts bright yellow, inclining to a deep orange hue at the tips. Upper part and wings bronzy green. Secondaries margined on outer webs with pale yellow. Tail bronzy green, with an apical light-yellow band. Bill green ? Feet dark red? Total length 7\ inches; wing 5|, tail 3|, culmen f. (Type-) 6. PTILOPUS CORALENSIS. Ptilopus coralensis, Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped. (1848) p. 190, pl. 51; Cass. U.S. Expl. Exped. 2nd ed. (1858) p. 272, pl. 32 ; Schleg. Mus. Pays-Bas, 1873, p. 14, Columbce. Columba purpurata, Temm. & Knip, Pig. vol. i. pl. 35? Ptilopus viridissima, Bor. Consp. Gen. Av. vol. ii. p. 20 (1857). Kurutreron coralensis, Bon. Consp. Av. vol. ii. p. 26. sp. 3 (1857) ; Reich. Taub. p. 93 ; id. Novit. Suppl. p. 203, t. iii. f. 33. Ptilinopus coralensis, Cass. Wilkes Expl. Exped. text, p. 272, atl. pl. 32(1858). Ptilonopus coralensis, Gray, List B. Trop. Isl. p. 37 (1859). Ptilonopus viridissimus, Gray, List B. Trop. Isl. p. 38 (1859), partim ; Reich. Tauben, p. 95, pl. 236 b. fig. 3367. Ptilinopus viridissimus, Finsch & Hartl. Faun. Centralpolyn. (1867) p. 134. Llab. Island of Carlshoff, Paumotu group (Peale). The type of Bonaparte's Ptilopus viridissimus is in the Paris Museum. The example, which was brought home by M . Mauge, the surgeon attached to the expedition commanded by Captain Baudin, is marked as from Timor. This locality is evidently erroneous, as no species belonging to this particular group of the genus Ptilopus is found in that island, but all are, on the contrary, apparently confined to the islands of the South Sea, from some one of which it is most probable the specimen described by Bonaparte was brought. It is in a bad condition, the primaries and tail being worn away to a considerable degree, as though the bird had been in captivity at |