“Adult female.—Above all parrot-green, except for a patch of aster-purple on crown and occiput, and purplish black spots on the scapulars and inner-coverts; breast green, without rose-purple and the dark plum-purple band of the male.

“Immature male.—Closely resembling the female; forehead green with the purple feathers of the crown intermingled; dark purple breast-band commencing to form; breast grayer than in the female.

“Young in first plumage.—Bright parrot-green, the wing-coverts and secondaries broadly margined with light yellow, the back, rump, and scapulars, and breast more finely margined with yellow; remaining under parts much as in the female; tail tipped with yellowish white; no purple on head or elsewhere.

“Wing, 128 to 140; tail, 95; tarsus, 22; culmen from cranium suture, 17 to 19.” (Meyer and Wiglesworth.)

Male.—“Iris sea-green; bill green, reddish at base; tarsus greenish olive. Length, 295; wing, 144.” (Salvadori.)

Genus SPILOTRERON Salvadori, 1882.

First primary slightly attenuated on its distal third; tail square; tarsus feathered nearly to the toes.

30. SPILOTRERON BANGUEYENSIS (A. B. Meyer).
MEYER’S FRUIT PIGEON.