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Show 560 MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON THE GENUS PTILOPUS. [May 7, equal for its entire length. Secondaries yellowish green, edged pale yellow. Tail bright yellowish green, with a grey spot at tip of feathers on inner webs. Underneath smoky black, with apical grey band. Bill yellow, base red; feet red; iris orange. Total length 8^ inches, wing 4|, tail 2|, culmen f. Female. Like the male, but without the spot on the breast. 48. PTILOPUS VIRIDIS. Columba viridis, Linn, (nee Scop.) Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 283. sp. 23 (1766); Gmel. Syst. Nat. (1788) p. 780. sp. 23; Shaw, Gen. Zool, vol. xi. pt. 1, p. 65 (1819); Knip & Prev. Pig. vol. ii. pl. xvii. Tourterelle a gorge pourpre'e cf Amboine, Buff. Pl. Enl. no. 142. Ptilinopus viridis, Steph. Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. xiv. p. 299. sp. 5 (1826). lonotreron viridis, Reich. Taub. p. 99, pl. 237. figs. 1320-21. lotreron viridis, Bon. Iconogr. Pig. (1857) pl. 28, juv. §?; id. Consp. Gen. Av, vol. ii. p. 24. sp. I. Ptilonopus viridis, Gray, Gen. B. vol. ii. p. 467 (1844-49); id. List B. Brit. Mus. (1856)" p. 6 ; id. List Mamm. & B. New Guin. (1859) p. 45 ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 34; Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. 381. Ptilopus viridis, Schleg. Mus. Pays-B. 1873, p. 22, Columbce; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vol. ix. (1876) p. 195. Hab. Bouru, Amboyna, Ceram, Goram (Wallace); Harouka, Monavolka (Bosenberg). This is the oldest-described member of the genus Ptilopus, and the only one known to Linnaeus. It is entirely an insular species, confined to the islands west of New Guinea, upon which land I have found no record of its ever having been procured. It is represented in the east (Bay of Geelvink) by the next species. Male. Forehead and upper part of throat light grey. Lower part of neck, and upper part of breast very deep reddish purple. Rest of underparts yellowish green. Crissum and under tail-coverts light yellow ; the latter with broad dark green stripes on the inner webs of the feathers. Upper parts, occiput, and back of neck bronzy green. A grey band near the shoulder, and tertials also grey, edged with green. Primaries dark green ; first about equal in width for the entire length ; secondaries bronzy green, margined with lemon-yellow. Tail bronzy green and tipped with yellow, lightest on the edges. Bill yellow, base red ; orbits yellow; feet pink-red ; iris with inner ring yellow, outer red. Total length 8 inches, wing 4|, tail 3, culmen |. 49. PTILOPUS GEELVINKIANUS, Ptilopus viridis geelvinkianus, Schleg. Nederl. Tijdsch. vol. iv. (1871) p. 23 ; id. Mus. Pays-B. 1873, p. 23. Ptilopus musschenbroeckii, Rowl. Ornith. Misc. pt. xiii. pl. 95, p. 114 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vol ix. (1876) p. 195. Hab. Islands of Mafor and Meosnoum (Von Bosenberg, Baffray); Mysore (Meyer). |