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Show 546 MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON THE GENUS PTILOPUS. [May 7, Adult. Front and crown, and a broad band across the back, dark purplish red. Head, neck all around, and throat white with awash of yellow. Feathers of the breast, split at their ends, have their basal half rose-red, apical portion yellowish white ; beneath these feathers is a reddish-orange band. Abdomen, flanks, and crissum yellowish white. Under tail-coverts dark purplish red. Back and upper tail-coverts pale greenish yellow. Wings pale grey, feathers margined with greenish yellow. Primaries and secondaries dark bronzy green ; first primary abruptly attenuated. Tail greyish white. Bill black, with the tip yellow. Feet black. Total length 8f inches, wing 5|, tail 3|, culmen §. Lmmature. Front and crown deep rosy purple. Cheeks grey. Upper parts shining golden green. Throat white. Breast green, feathers tipped with white. Abdomen and crissum yellowish white. Under tail-coverts bright yellow. Wings shining golden green ; primaries and secondaries margined with yellow. Tail golden green, very bronzy on the edges and tips of the feathers. Bill and feet as in the adult. (Four specimens before me, all of which lack the purple bar on the breast shown in the figures of Bonaparte and Hartlaub and Finsch.) 24. PTILOPUS CORONULATUS. Ptilonopus coronulatus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 185, pl. 138 ; id. List M a m m . & Birds, New Guinea (1859), p. 45 ; Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. 378; Schleg. Mus. Pays-Bas 1873, p. 9, Columbce; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. vol. vii. (1875) p. 833. Ptilopus coronulatus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. (1876) vol. ix. p. 198. Hab. Aru Islands (Wallace, Bosenberg) ; Salwatty and Sorong, (Bernstein) ; Jobie (Bosenberg) ; Yule Island (D' Albertis). This species and the two next mentioned form a small section of this genus, related closely to each other in the distribution of the hues of their plumage. Like so many others of the genus, they are conspicuous for their brightly-coloured crowns and abdomens. Male. Front and crown pink, bordered posteriorly by a narrow line of purple, succeeded by a broader one of bright yellow. A purple spot on the upper part of the abdomen ; middle of abdomen, crissum, and under tail-coverts bright yellow. Entire rest of plumage bronzy green. Secondaries and primaries margined with yellow. First primary abruptly attenuated at tip. Bill greenish yellow. Feet red. Iris orange. Total length 7\ inches, wing 4|, tail 2f, culmen §. Female like the male. 25. PTILOPUS GEMINUS. Ptilonopus geminus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. vol. vii. (1875) p. 786. Ptilonopus senex, Briigg. Abhandl. natur. Ver. Brem. 1876, p. 82. |