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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 
