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Show 568 MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON THE GENUS PTILOPUS. [May 7, love for natural history which has always characterized him in parts of the world in which his lot has been temporarily cast. Male. Head and neck greenish yellow ; under tail-coverts bright yellow. Thighs and lower part of abdomen grey. Rest of plumage of body and wings dark green, with a golden gloss upon back and chest. Primaries are edged with yellow on outer webs, and, together with the secondaries, have nearly all the inner webs golden yellow; the first primary is narrowed gradually towards the tip. Bill blue-black, tip livid ; legs dark crimson ; iris yellowish. Length 7\ inches, wing 4\, tail 2\, culmen f (skin). Female. Like the male, but less brilliant generally. 60. PTILOPUS VICTOR. Chryscena victor, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 642 ; Layard, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 437; Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 557; Rowl. Ornith. Misc. pt. v. pl.; Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeff. Heft xii. (1876) p. 10; Lay. Ibis, 1876, p. 151 ; Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 736. Native name Bull ndamu (Layard). Hab. Fiji Islands, Bua (Filhol); Vanua Levu, Taviuni, Ngami, Lanthala (Layard). Layard says that this Dove is the glory of the forest of Taviuni, and is also found in Lanthala and Rambi Islands, also on Vanua Levu, about Bua, Ndreketti, &c. The young males would be mistaken for females, but that the vent is more orange. They breed about December or November, making a rude platform of small twigs for a nest about ten feet from the ground, and lay two eggs, axis 1" 4"', diam. 1", pure white in hue. The species feeds on many sorts of small and large berries and fruits. Male. Head and throat dull olive-green. Entire rest of plumage bright orange-carmine. Under surface of wings bright yellow. Primaries greenish yellow, edged with orange; first not narrowed. Tail, which is very short and almost hidden by the upper-coverts, brownish orange, graduating into pure orange at the tip. Bill and feet black. Total length 7 inches, wing 4^, tail 2\, culmen |. Female. Head yellowish green, lightest upon the throat. Entire plumage of body rich green ; inner webs of primaries and secondaries broadly margined with orange; outer webs edged with the same colour. Under tail-coverts orange, with the centre of the feathers green. Bill black, tip yellow ; feet black. 61. PTILOPUS LECLANCHERI. Treroleema leclancheri, Bon. Compt. Rend. (1855) torn. xii. p. 247; id. Iconog. Pig. (1857) pl. 16. Carpophaga leclancheri, Gray, List B. Brit. Mus. (1856) p. 21. sp. 19. Leucotreron gironieri, J. Verr. & Des Murs, Ibis, 1862, p. 342, pl. 12, 2 ; Wald. Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. ix. p. 213 (1875). Ptilopus geversi, Schleg. Ibis, 1863, p. 120. Ptilopus hugonianus, Schleg. Nederl. Tijdsch. 1863, p. 60, pl. 3, |