102 PTILINOPUS. 



sessed by several pigeons belonging to other distinct 

 groups, and by which means a connection is thus 

 kept up between them. The third and fourth quills 

 are nearly equal to each other, and are the longest in 

 the wing. The tail is of proportionate length, and 

 generally square at the end. They inhabit the Malac- 

 cas, the Celebes, and the islands of the Pacific, feed- 

 ing upon the various fruits and berries produced in 

 such teeming abundance in those warm and produc- 

 tive latitudes. The predominating colour of their 

 plumage, like that of Vinago, is green, varied in 

 parts with yellow and orange, and in some beauti- 

 fully encircled with masses of purplish-red and vivid 

 blue. Their habits seem retired, as they pass the 

 greatest part of their life in the solitudes of the fo- 

 rest, and their resort is only to be detected by their 

 frequent and audible cooing notes. 



The first example we give of this beautiful genus, 

 is the 



