ON THE GENUS PTILOPUS* 



(PTILONOPUS, Swains. t). 

 By Mr. G. D. ROWLEY. 



Bonaparte speaks thus (' Conspectus Generum Avium/ vol. ii. p. 19) : — 



'^Ptilopus^ Sw. 1825 (errore Ptilonopusl pejus PtilinopusW pessime 

 Ptinilopus III Kurukuru, O. des Murs). 



'^ Rostrum modicum ; pedes parvi : alee breves^ rotundatse ; remigum prima brevis, apice statim 

 subulato^ prselongo ; sexta longior quam prima ; tertia omnium longissima : cauda brevis 

 rotundata : plumae pectoris bifidse^ rigidulse : colores virides et purpurei^ pileo roseo-violaceo. 

 Juvenes pileo concolore : remigibus margine apicali albo ; prima apice angustO;, sed non 

 subulato : plumis omnibus fiavo-lunulatis. Ocean/^ 



(EDIRHINUS INSOLITUS. 



The Strange Pigeon. 



(Plate LXVI.) 



Ptilopus insolitus, Schlegel. 



In the collection of birds formed by Mr. George Brown, C.M.Z.S., on 



^' Th. irTiXov, TO, the down or soft feather^ and irov'^j 6, a foot. 



t Mr. G. R. Gray^ in ^ Genera^ (vol. ii.)^ says : — ^^ Established by Mr. Swainson (Zool. Journ. 

 i. p. 473) in 1825 ; it has been since changed to Ptilopus by Mr. Strickland.^^ 



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