GOLIAH ARATOO. 
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The bill, as represented in the figure, is very large, 
with the tip long and very acute, projecting far be- 
yond the under, which is small and weak in compa- 
rison. The orbits and cheeks are covered with a 
naked red wrinkled skin, the crest is of a greyish 
colour, long, composed of narrow feathers, and which 
the bird can erect at pleasure. The whole of the 
plumage is black, but glossed with a greenish-grey 
tinge in the living bird, from the quantity of a white 
powdering substance interspersed among the fea- 
thers. In museums, the specimens are observed to 
vary considerably in size ; and Kuhl goes so far as 
to consider the larger individuals as constituting a 
species distinct from the lesser, characterising the 
former by the title of Psillacus Goliah, the smaller 
by that of P. aterrimus. Further observation, how- 
ever is required to verify the views of this ornitho- 
logist, and for the present we adhere to Wagler’s 
opinion, who considered them as identical. 
In this subfamily, or in close connection with it, 
according to Wagler, is another remarkable form, to 
which he gives the generic title of Dasyptilus, and 
now illustrated by 
