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Show 1878.] MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON THE GENUS PTILOPUS. 543 Columba superba, Wagl. Syst. Av. (1827) sp. 32, Columba. La Verte, Less. Compl. Buff. torn. iii. Ois. p. 29 (1837). La Poukiopou, Less. Compl. Buff. torn. iii. Ois. (1837). Ptilinopus leucogaster, Swains. Class. B. vol. ii. p. 347. Ptilinopus superbus, Steph. Gen. Zool. vol. xiv. p. 279. sp. 6 j Gould, B. Austr. vol. v. pl. lvii. Ptilonopus superbus, Gray, Gen. B. (1844-49) vol. ii. p. 467 ; id. ListB. Brit. Mus. (1856) p. 7; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 184; id. List B. Trop. Isl. (1859) p. 39; id. List M a m m . and B. New Guin. (1859) p. 46 ; Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. 379; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (1875) vol. vii." p. 786. Ptilonopus cyanovirens, Gray, Gen. B. (1844-49) vol. ii. p. 467 ; id. List B. Brit. Mus. (1856) p. 8. sp. 23 ; id. Cat. M a m m . and B. New Guin. (1859) p. 47. Kurukuru superbus, Des Murs & Prev. Voy. Venus, p. 231 (1855). Lamprotreron superba, Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. (1857) vol. ii. p. 18; Reich. Tauben, p. 97, pl. 236 6. fig. 3366, $, pl. 236. figs. 1316-17, cf juv.; Ibis (1866), p. 333; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. 18/6, p. 114. Cyanotreron cyanovirens, Bon. Compt. Rend. (1854) torn, xxxix. p. 878 ; id. Consp. Av. vol. ii. p. 23 ; Reich. Tauben, p. 98, pl. 238. fig.1324. Ptilonopus (Lamprotreron) superbus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 360. Ptilopus superbus, Schleg. Mus. Pays-B. 1873, p. 30, Columbce; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. (1877) vol. x. p. 158. Lamprotreron porphyrostictus, Gould, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1874) vol. xiii. p. 137,? ? Hab. Amboyna, Ceram, Batchian, Gilolo, Waigiou, Mysol, Aru, New Guinea (Wallace); Mount Arfak (Brujni); Halmahera, Ternate, Batanta, Jobie (Bernstein, Von Bosenberg) ; Bouru, Salwatty (Hoedt) ; Amberbaki, Mafor (Raffray) ; N e w Hanover (Cabanis) ; Booby Islands (Gould) ; Cape York, Australia (Cockerell). As will be seen from the list given above, this species has received many names. The two sexes have been described as distinct species, and have been assigned to different genera! It has a wide distribution, having been procured as far to the eastward as New- Hanover, reaching Gilolo on the north, and Cape York, Australia, on the south. In fact it is found generally throughout the Papuan group of islands and along the northern part of New Guinea. As it has been obtained at Mount Arfak and Amberbaki, and also on Salwatty on the west coast, it is probable that it will be ascertained to inhabit the entire northern portion of New Guinea. According to • Mr. Ramsay, this bird is tolerably abundant in the scrub-lands of the Herbert River and coast-range. The note, which is a rollino-guttural " coo," may be heard half a mile off. The young resemble somewhat those of Pt. swainsoni (regina), but do not show the bifurcate breast-feathers before the end of the second year; but the green bands on the flanks are conspicuous even in the nestling. The |