ON THE GENUS PTILOPUS. 339 



Among the remarkable birds mentioned is "(Edirhinus gloUfer (new genus 

 and species of Fruit- Pigeons), from New Ireland." 



The following is from Schlegel (Nederl. T. v. d. Dierk. L 1863, p. 61), 

 about this species : — 



" Ptilopus insolitus. (Plate 3. fig. 3.) 



" I am sorry to say that I only know, of this excessively curious, very 

 fine, and new species, one single specimen, unluckily mutilated; for the 

 tail-feathers and the extremities of the primaries are taken ofi^. It has been 

 given to me as coming from New Caledonia. 



" This Ptilopus approaches P. iogaster, P. viridisy and P. pectoralis by 

 the whitish-grey patches with which its wings are adorned ; but its system 

 of coloration is very difl^erent, and it deviates from all known species in 

 having the forehead furnished with a naked protuberance, resembling in 

 some way those of some species of Carpophaga^ as C. glohicera and C. ruhricera^ 

 but much more developed and very different in its origin and form. 



" This protuberance, in the species of Carpophaga produced by a tumour 

 of the soft part of the bill, which surrounds the nostrils and even encloses 

 these nostrils, originates in our Ptilopus by a swelling of the parietes of 

 the anterior half of the forehead, which commences behind the nostrils ; it 

 rises rounded in front and broadens behind, and comes down to the lores ; 

 its posterior margin is rectilineal, and its colour shining yellowish white. 

 The bill presents the forms, the colours, and nearly the size of that of P. 

 iogaster, its anterior part being white, its posterior blackish. The feet are 

 as in P. viridis, but their colour somewhat brownish. This curious bird 

 does not appear to be smaller in size than the last-named species. 



" The prevailing colour of the plumage in P. insolitus is a golden 

 bronze-green reflecting purphsh red, especially on the wings. The anterior 

 part of the wing is of a whitish grey ; and the same colour occupies the 

 secondaries (with the exception of their margins), the large and the middle 



