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brilliant metallic-blue, the outer edges of the former and both edges of the latter 
changing to green. Ventral region, under tail-coverts and tibiz reddish-chestnut 
colour; short feathers of the tarsi cinereous. Inferior coverts of the wing light 
cinereous. Bill dark; feet light ? 
Dimensions.—Total length (of skin) about 15} inches, wing 8}, tail 5 inches. 
Hab.—Northern Australia?” (Cassin’s account of C. lepida.) 
Norre.—The preceding is all that is known concerning the occurrence of members 
of the genus Globicera in Australia, but as the former has not been identified with 
any known form of G. pacifica it seems best to keep these on record, especially in 
view of the occurrences of the two Parrots of the genera Lorius (=Eclectus olim) 
and Geoffroyus, altogether unexpected, and had either of these been represented by 
single specimens only they would have been likewise discredited. 
Genus LOPHOLAIMUS. 
Lopholaimus Gould, Birds Austr., pt. v., Dec. Ist, 1841. Type (by monotypy): Columba 
antarctica Shaw. 
Lophorynchus Swainson, Classif. Birds, Vol. II., p. 348, July lst, 1837. Type (by monotypy) : 
Columba dilopha Temm. = Columba antarctica Shaw. 
Not Vieillot, Analyse, p. 59, April 14th, 1816. 
Large Fruit Pigeons with a double crest, trifurcate feathers on hind-neck and 
breast, long wings, long tail, short legs and feet. The bill is short, the dertrum 
swollen but strongly decurved, the culmen bearing feathers basally forming an 
upstanding crest ; the nasal covering is large, strong and swollen, the nasal apertures 
linear below ; the lower mandible broader, the rami diverging and embracing the 
edges of the upper mandible, the rami deep and long, the interramal space fully 
feathered and the gonys very short, strongly angulated and abruptly ascending. 
The occipital crest is full, the feathers soft, the tips truncate; the feathers of the 
hind-neck and breast trifureate. The wing is long and pointed, all the feathers 
normal, none showing narrowing or scalloping ; the first primary is long and equal 
to the fifth, the second and fourth subequal, the third a little longer and longest ; 
the secondaries short. The tail is very long, about two-thirds the length of the 
wing, the feathers, fourteen in number, being very broad with rounded tips and 
forming an absolutely square tail. The legs are short and stout, the tarsus covered 
thickly with feathers, a few scales seen at joint of toes which are long, the middle 
toe longest, the outer longer than the inner, which is a little longer than the hind- 
toe, the lateral expansions of the two latter being noticeable ; all the claws are very 
long and hooked. 
Coloration : upper and under coloration grey, primaries and tail black, latter 
with a grey band across middle and grey base ; occipital crest chestnut. 
188. Lopholaimus antarcticus—TOP-KNOT PIGEON. 
Gould, Vol. V., pl. 61 (pt. v.), Dec. Ist, 1841. Mathews, Vol. I., pt. 2, pl. 28, Jan. 31st, 1911. 
Columba antarctica Shaw, Zool. New Holland, p. 15, pl. V., 1793: New South Wales. 
Columba dilopha Temminck, Trans. Linn. Soe. (Lond.), Vol. XIII., pt. 1., p. 124, 1821: Red 
Point, south of Woollongong, New South Wales. 
Lopholaimus antarcticus minor Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 122, Jan. 31st, 1911: 
North Queensland. 
DisTRIBUTION.—Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria. 
Adult male—General colour both above and below grey, being much paler on 
the latter ; all the feathers with silky-white down-like bases ; wings and back pale 
slate-grey, somewhat lighter on the lower back, rump and upper _tail-coverts ; 
bastard-wing, primary-coverts and quills black, the innermost secondaries like the 
