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.)
Genus SPILOTRERON Salvadori, 1882.
First primary slightly attenuated on its distal third; tail square;
tarsus feathered nearly to the toes.