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Show 570 MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON THE GENUS PTILOPUS. [May 7, Ptilopus occipitalis, Schleg. Mus." Pays-B. 1873, p. 35, Columbce. Hab. Luzon, Philippines (Meyer). Bonaparte described a young bird of this species, in the'Comptes Rendus' (I. ci), as Omotreron batilda; and afterwards, in his ' Icono-graphie des Pigeons,' he figured this specimen as the young of Ptilopus porphyreus! The type of O. batilda is in the collection of the Paris Museum, and proves to be simply a young bird of P. occipitalis. It is larger than any specimen of porphyreus, of which there is a series before me, even exceeding the adults in its measurements, and presents quite a different coloration. The type was brought from the Philippines in 1839 by M. Barrot, but no particular island is indicated. Adult. Top and front of head light leaden grey ; sides of face below the eyes and entire back of head purplish red. Throat yellowish white; sides of neck and breast grey, like the top of head. Entire centre of breast, from the lower part of the throat to the abdomen, ochraceous ; flanks bright green ; a large purplish-red spot in the middle of the abdomen. Crissum grey mingled with white. Upper parts bronzy green, darkest upon the rump and upper tail-coverts. Wings bright green ; primaries and secondaries black on their inner webs, green on their outer and edged with light yellow. Tail bright green, with an apical greyish band; under coverts white, with a broad green stripe on their inner webs. Bill red, with light tip ; feet red. Total length Ilf inches, wing6^, tail 4\, culmenf. (Specimen figured by Bonaparte, Icon. Pig. pl. 14.) Young. Top of head, back of neck, and entire upper parts bronzy green. Throat yellowish white. Sides of head yellowish white, interspersed with green. Underparts greyish green, bronze upon the breast. Crissum and under tail-coverts whitish, the latter striped with green. Wings like the back, the secondaries and primaries edged on outer web with yellowish white. Tail bright green, with a greyish-white apical band, which is observed only on the inner webs. Total length 11 inches, wing 6, tail 4, culmen f. (Type of batilda, Bon.) 63. PTILOPUS GULARIS. Columba gularis, Quoy & Gaim. Voy. Astrol. Zool. vol. i. p. 247, pl. xxix. (1830). La Mentonniere, Less. Comp. Buff. torn. iii. Ois. (1837). Columba gularis, Knip & Prev. Pig. pl. xi. Laryngogrammagularis, Reich. Tauben, p. 102, pl. 233. fig. 1297; id. suppl. p. 203, nov. Taf. iv. fig. 44. Leucotreron gularis, Bon. Consp. Av. vol. ii. p. 15 (1857) ; Wald. Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. viii. (1872) p. 83; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (1875) vol. ix. p. 670. Ptilonopus gularis, Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. 377. Ptilopus gularis, Schleg. Mus. Pays-B. (1873) p. 57, Columbce. Hab. Celebes.-Menado ( Wallace); Tondano (Forsten); Gorontalo, Wawou, Bone, Modelido (Von Bosenberg). |
