INTRODUCTION. 
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Genus Ptilinopus, Swains. 
The species of this genus, the most brilliant and highly- coloured of the ColumUdce, range over Austraha, New 
Guinea, Malacca, Celebes, and Polynesia; two of the three Australian species are I believe confined to that 
country. 
416. Ptilinopus Swainsonii, Gould ............ Vol. V. PI. 55. 
417. Ptilinopus Ewingii, Gould , , . Vol. V. PI. 56. 
418. Ptilinopus superbus Vol. V. PL 57. 
Ptilinopus superbus, Steph. cont. of Shaw's Gen. Zool., vol. xiv. p. 279. 
Genus Carpophaga, Selby. 
The species of this genus are widely dispersed over Australia, New Guinea, Malacca, Celebes and Polynesia. 
Strictly arboreal in their habits and feeding entirely upon fruits, berries and seeds, they frequent the towering fig- 
trees when their fruit is ripe, and the lofty palms for the sake of their large round seeds. I have frequently observed 
large flocks moving about from one part of the forest to another, consequently they may be considered a gregarious 
race ; their short tarsi and dilated feet are ill-adapted for the ground, and I have never seen them descend from the 
trees, not even for water. 
419. Carpophaga magnifica ........... . , Vol. V. PI. 58. 
420. Carpophaga leucomela ............. Vol. V. PI. 59> 
421. Carpophaga luctuosa Vol. V. PI. 60. 
Genus Lopholaimus, G. R. Gray. 
The single species of this genus is strictly a fruit-eating Pigeon, and is confined, so far as we yet know, to the 
brushes of New South Wales, where it moves about in large flocks and feeds upon the wild figs and other fruits and 
berries which the trees of the brushes afford. 
422. Lopholaimus Antarcticus Vol. V. PI. 61. 
A noble bird ornamented with a large occipital crest. 
Genus Chalcophaps, Gould. 
Generic characters. 
" Bill slender, moderate and straight, the tip vaulted and rather arched ; nostrils lateral, membranous and 
swollen, with the opening in the middle of the bill ; ivings long, second and third primaries nearly equal and the 
longest ; tail moderate and much rounded ; tarsi rather shorter than the middle toe, robust and covered with 
transverse scales ; toes long, the lateral and the hind-toes nearly as long as the outer ; claios moderate and curved." 
— Gray and Mitchell's Genera of Birds, Art. Gourin^. 
A genus of Brush Pigeons, the members of which seek their food on the ground and live on the fallen seeds 
and berries they find there. Two species inhabit Australia, one of which is confined to the eastern and the other 
to the northern coast; other species are found in Java, Sumatra, and on the continent of India, the whole forming 
a group well worthy of investigation by the scientific ornithologist. 
423. Chalcophaps chrysochlora Vol. V. PI. 62. 
The bird of this form inhabiting the country in the neighbourhood of Port Essington differs from those 
inhabiting New South Wales in the much greater length of the mandibles, and is altogether a much finer bird : 
consequently I am induced to believe that it is distinct from its southern prototype ; I would therefore provisionally 
name it — 
424. Chalcophaps longirostris. 
I have not figured it, inasmuch as the colouring is similar, but more briUiant, and has the bands across the 
rump more distinct than in C. chrysochlora. 
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