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, Ptiltonopus iozonus, of the same deep green, and having the same 

 bright deep orange spot on the upper part of the abdomen ; the 

 shoulders and under surface of the wings, rich bluish ash-colour ; 

 upper coverts and scapulars also tinged mesially with the same 

 colour- ; abdomen green, towards the centre white, margined with 

 light yellow ; tail green above, apical third and the whole of the 

 under surface ash colour ; the throat ashy, margined with green ; 

 all the remainder of the body deep green ; wing coverts and 

 secondaries narrowly margined with yellow. Total length 8-5 

 inches, wing 5, tail 2'8, tarsus 0-9 ; bill from gape, 0*9 ; knob at 

 the base of the cere deep reddish orange, length 0-5 x 0-6, height 

 above bill 0-5 inch; middle toe l'l, its nail 0-3. The back, in 

 certain lights, and the secondars, have a bronze tint ; the primaries 

 also tinged with bronze on the outer webs. Numbers of this 

 beautiful bird, for which the generic name of Kranocera* may be 

 employed, on account of its helmet-shaped cei'e, were obtained on 

 the Duke of York Island. This bird, in the pointed form of the 

 first primary (and general structure, except in the helmet at the 

 base of the cere), comes nearer to members of the genus Ptilonopus 

 in the section to which belongs P. coronulatus, &c, of the sub- 

 genus Cyanotreron (Verr.). In the plumage it imitates P. iozonus 

 (G.R. Gr.). I can find no description of this bird in any works at 

 my disposal ; nor can I find any genus in Gray's Hand-list under 

 which I can place it. Notwithstanding this, the bird must surely 

 have been named and described somewhere. Specimens have been 

 in the Dobroyde Collection for at least six years. 

 , Of the genus Carpophaga at least four specimens were obtained. 

 G. pacifica, G. microcera (1), G. rubricera, and G. luctuosa, that is 

 if our Australian species, as figured by Mr. Gould (Bds. Aust. V., 

 pi. 60), is to be left as C. spilorrhoa. (G. R. Gn.) 



Mr. Gray remarks, however, t that C. spilorrhoa " is dis- 

 tinguished by the feathers of the thighs and under tail coverts 

 being spotted near the margins, and the outer tail feather with 

 the greater part of the outer web and tip black ; while in 



* Helmet-cered. t P. Z. S., 1858, p. 186. 



