. Ornithological miscellany . me, a series ofspecimens of a Ptilopus related to P. rivolii, but offering very obvious cha-racters, and originating from other localities, where it appears to representP. rivolii. These localities are the islands of Meosnoum and Jobie, whichextend across the large Geelvinks Bay. This fact is the more curious, asthis bird does not live on the other islands of the Geelvinks Bay, , nor on the group of Schouten (islands Soek and Biak), as the firstis inhabited, in addition to P. rivolii, by a species with a white cross band, * F. W. Miquel was bom on Octobe
. Ornithological miscellany . me, a series ofspecimens of a Ptilopus related to P. rivolii, but offering very obvious cha-racters, and originating from other localities, where it appears to representP. rivolii. These localities are the islands of Meosnoum and Jobie, whichextend across the large Geelvinks Bay. This fact is the more curious, asthis bird does not live on the other islands of the Geelvinks Bay, , nor on the group of Schouten (islands Soek and Biak), as the firstis inhabited, in addition to P. rivolii, by a species with a white cross band, * F. W. Miquel was bom on October 24:tli, 1811, at Neuenhaus, in Hanover (Germany),studied in Groniagen, became (1831) Physician at the Amsterdam Hospital, (1835) Master ofBotany at the Chnical School of Rotterdam, (1846) Professor of Botany at the Athenaeum ofAmsterdam, (1859) Professor at the University of Utrecht, () Diiector of the GovernmentHerbarium at Leiden, died at Utrecht on the 33rd of January, 1871. Blume called after him thegenus liLh, Hanhart imp. PTILOPUS MIQUELI/r^/? Bosen^er^.j ON THE GENUS PTILOPUS. 61 differing very much from P. rivolii and P. miquelii, a species which alsoinhabits the island of Soek, where P. rivolii is not to be found : it isP. speciosus, about which we shall treat immediately. Ptilopus miquelii is distinguished from the other species by a whitecross band on the breast, by the constant want of red on the breast and belly,these parts being coloured with the same green colour which occurs on theother parts of the bird. We add that the abdomen and the under tail-covertsare of a fine uniform citron-yellow, that the red on the upper part of the headin the male is a little darker and of a deeper purple colour, and that the birdin general is of a somewhat larger size. Wing 4 6 to 4 11, tail 2 9, bill from the front 6i. Schlegel, Mus. Colimba, p. 26 (1873) :— Ptilopus miqueli, Von Rosenberg, in litteris; Schlegel, Obs. Nederl. Tijdsc
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