Note on Piczorhynchus Melanocephalus (Ramsay), and Ptilopus viridis (Ramsay), from the Solomon Islands

Abstract

HAVING lately received several specimens of the Piczorhynchus, which I described under the above name, I find that it is the young of Mr. Tristram's P. vidua (see Proc. Linn. Soc. of New South Wales, vol. iv. p. 468) from the Solomon Islands. The white collar which commences on the nape is much broader in the young than in the adult, and the feathers of the chest are white, all margined conspicuously with black.