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greyish black, and the tips of the tail-feathers, which are black, 

 the black becoming of less extent as the feathers recede from 

 the centre of the tail, until the outer feather is only slightly 

 tipped ; this feather is also broadly margined with black on 

 the outer web for three-fourths of its length from the base ; 

 the under tail-coverts also have an irregular band of black 

 near the tip of each feather ; irides dark brown ; bill dark 

 greenish grey, except the tip, which is light yellow. 



Genus LOPHOLAIMUS, G. R. Gray. 



The single species of this genus is strictly a fruit-eating 

 Pigeon, and is, so far as we yet know, confined to Australia. 



Sp. 458. LOPHOLAIMUS ANTARCTICUS. 



Top-knot Pigeon. 



Columba antarctica, Shaw, Zool. of New Holl., pi. 5. 



dilopha, Temm. in Linn. Trans., vol. xiii. p. 124. 



Lophorhynchus dilophus, Swains. Class, of Birds, vol. ii. p. 348. 



antarcticus, G. R. Gray, List of Gen. of Birds, 1st Edit., p. 58. 



Lopholaimus antarcticus, G. R. Gray, Ibid., App. to 2nd Edit., p. 12. 

 Top-knot Pigeon of the Colonists of New South Wales. 



Lopholaimus antarcticus, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. v, 

 pi. 61. 



Although the specific term of antarcticus is not an appro- 

 priate appellation for this noble Pigeon, it cannot, I think, be 

 sunk into a synonym, since it was first applied to it in a work 

 exclusively on the zoology of New Holland, as will be seen on 

 reference to the synonyms above quoted. I feel assured that 

 Temminck was either unacquainted with the publication alluded 

 to, or that the circumstance of its having been previously de- 

 scribed and figured had escaped his memory, when he cha- 

 racterized this bird in the thii'teenth volume of the " Linnean 

 Transactions," and subsequently figured it in his " Planqhes 

 Coloriees," under the name of Columba dilopha. -^ 



