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Show 552 MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON THE GENUS PTILOPUS. [May 7, sp. 33 ; Temm. Pl. Col. 214; Knip & Temm. Pig. vol. i. pl. 30; Less. Trait. Ornith. (1831) p. 471. Tourterelle de Batavia, Buff. Plan. Eulum. 214. Columba melanocephala, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. xi. pt. 1 (1819). Ptilinopus melanocephalus, Steph. Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. xiv. p. 279. sp. 7; Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. 381. Le Turgis, Less. Compl. Buff. torn. iii. Ois. p. 26 (1837). Ptilonopus melanocephalus, Gray, List B. Brit. Mus. (1844) p. 1, (1856) p. 6. sp. 15 ; id. Gen. B. vol. ii. p. 467 (1844-49). Ionotreron melanocephala, Reich. Taub. p. 100, Taf. 237. figs. 1318, 1319. Lotreron melanocephala, Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. vol. ii. p. 24. sp. 2 (1859). Ptilopus melanocephalus, Schleg. Nederl. Tijdsch. Dierk. vol. iii. p. 207; id. Mus. Pays-B. 1873, p. 28, Columbce. Ptilopus melanauchen, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. vol. vii. (1875) p. 670 (ex Flores). Lotreron melanocephala, id. ibid. p. 671. Hab. Java (Diard, Temminck); Sumbawa, Flores (Forstein, Bosenberg); Sulabessie (Hoedt) ; Lombock (Wallace). Count Salvadori has called the birds from Flores (/. c.) Ptilopus melanauchen; but I really cannot see that this island form differs sufficiently from typical Pt. melanocephalus, ex Java, to require separation as a distinct species. It would seem that four races of this style of Ptilopus are quite sufficient to indicate the varieties that exist. This species is one of the longest-known in the genus; and while the typical style is confined to Java and the Timor group of islands, representative forms, constituting races if not distinct species, are met with on other islands of the Malay archipelago. Male. Top and sides of head and neck, and lower part of throat light grey ; occiput and back of neck black ; chin and throat yellow ; crissum and short under tail-coverts rich yellow, long ones carmine; entire rest of plumage bright green; primaries black on inner web, green on outer; first primary slightly scalloped and narrowed at tip; bill yellow, greenish horny at the tip; feet pink-red; orbits bare, green. Total length 9f inches, wing 4|, tail 3, culmen i. (Java.) Female. Entirely green, with the exception of the longest feathers of the under tail-coverts, which are carmine, like those of the male. 35. PTILOPUS MELANOSPILUS. Ptilopus melanocephalus, Schleg. Mus. Pays-B. 1873, p. 29, ex Celebes. Lotreron melanospila, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. vol. vii. (1875) p. 670. Ptilinopus melanocephalus celebensis, Briigg. Brem. Abhandl. (1876) p. 80. Hab. Celebes. The various forms of Pt. melanocephalus were pointed out by |