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Show •^40 MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON THE GENUS PTILOPUS. [MAY 7, 18. PTILOPUS XANTHOGASTER. Columba purpurata, Temm. (nee auct.) Pl. Col. livr. 43 (1824), vide text to pl. 254, livr. 95 (1835). Columba xanthogaster, Wagl. Syst. Av. (1827) sp. 29, Columbce. Columba diademata, Temm. text to Pl. Col. 254, livr. 95 (1835). Ptilinopus purpuratus, Steph. (nee auct.) Cont. Shaw's Gen. Zool. vol. xiv. p. 277. sp. 1. Ptilinopus fluvigaster, Swains. Class. B. vol. ii. p. 347. Le Kurukuru a ventre jaune, Less. Compl. Buff. torn. iii. Ois. p. 36(1837). Ptilonopus xanthogaster, Gray, Gen. B. (1844-49) vol. ii. p. 446 ; id. List B. Brit. Mus. (1856) p. 5; id. List B. Trop. Isl. p. 36 (1859). Kurukuru xanthogaster, Des Murs and Prev. Voy. Venus (1855), Zool. p. 238. Thouarsitreron diademata, Bon. Compt. Rend. torn, xxxix. (1854) p. 876, torn. xl. (1855) p. 216; id. Iconog. Pig. pl. 18 (1857); id. Consp. A v. vol. ii. p. 16(1857); Reich. Tauben, p. 93, figs. 1326, 1327. Ptilonopus diadematus, Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. 380. Ptilinopus diadematus, Finsch & Hartl. Faun. Centralpolyn. (1867) p. 124. Ptilopus diadematus, Schleg. Mus. Pays-B. 1873, p. 11, Columbce. Ptilopus xanthogaster, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. 1876, vol. ix. p. 199. Hab. Banda (Beinwardt, Hoedt) ; Khoor or Kanaloor, Little Ke, Grand K e (Von Bosenberg); Lettie, east of Timor (Hoedt). This species was first called by Temminck Columba purpurata, Lath., in the 43rd livraison of the ' Planches Coloriees,' he supposing that it was a female of Latham's bird. Afterwards he ascertained, from an examination of the specimens obtained by Quoy and Gaimard during the voyage of the ' Uranie,' that the bird figured by him represented a distinct species; and he therefore, in the 9oth livraison, issued a new sheet of text calling the bird diademata, and requested that the previous page should be replaced by this one. However, between the dates of these two livraisons (1824-1835), Wagler had in 1827, in his ' Systema Avium,' described the species as xanthogaster, which name will of course take precedence over Temminck's later one of diademata. Adult. Head, neck, and upper part of the breast greyish white. An orange-yellow line passes over the eye and encircles the occiput. Throat bright yellow. Lower part of breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts orange-yellow ; a large pale grey patch on upper part of abdomen. Upper parts dark green. Centre of tertials, scapulars, and innermost secondaries deep blue, bordered with yellow. Primaries bordered with white, the first one abruptly and greatly attenuated. Tail dark green, with an apical band of lighter green. Bill green, |