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 Kurukuru temminckii Prevost and Des Murs, Voy. Venus, Zool. (1849), 234.

 Ptilopus temmincki Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 115; Meyer and Wiglesworth, Bds. Celebes (1898), 2, 613.

 Lamprotreron temmincki Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 58; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 11.

 Ptilopus formosus Guillemard, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1885), 269.

Sulu (Guillemard). Celebes.

“Adult male.—General color above parrot-green, the inner wing-coverts, scapulars, and inner quills with an oval black spot near the ends; entire head above aster-purple; hind neck and sides of neck dragon’s-blood-red, shading off into the green of the mantle; sides of occiput and ear-coverts green, becoming gray on malar region, chin, throat, and jugulum; the upper breast rose-purple, the feathers on chest and jugulum forked at the tip (as if the middle part of the web had been cut out with scissors); passing on lower breast into a broad band of blackish plum-purple; on and near the carpal edge a large spot of this color; sides, thighs, and flanks green, thighs grayer, flanks tipped with naples-yellow; abdomen and under tail-coverts yellowish white, the inner webs of the latter partly green; center tail-feathers above green, grayish at tip, all the lateral tail-feathers blackish, tipped with gray, washed with green; tail below dusky grayish, terminal bar whitish; quills above black, washed externally with green, finely edged with yellowish; wings below slaty, the first primary much attenuated for about 2 cm. and incurved.

“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.)