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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 tibiae 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. 

 Hob. Northern Australia ? " (Cassin's account of C. lepida.) 

 NOTE. 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 Go.uld, Birds Austr., pt. v., Dec. 1st, 1841. Type (by monotypy) : Columba 



antarctica Shaw. 



Lophorynchus Swainson, Classif. Birds, Vol. II., p. 348, July 1st, 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 trifurcate. 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., pi. 61 (pt. v.), Dec. 1st, 1841. Mathews, Vol. I., pt. 2, pi. 28,"Jan. 31st, 1911. 

 Columba antarctica Shaw, Zool. New Holland, p. 15, pi. V., 1793 : New South Wales. 

 Columba dilopha Temminck, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XIII., pt. I., 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 



