Order C0LUMBIF0RME8 
No. 30. 
Family TRERONIDjE. 
LOPHOLAIMUS ANTARCTICUS. 
TOP-KNOT PIGEON. 
(Plate 28.) 
CoLUMBA ANTARCTICA Shaw, Zool. of New Holland, PL 5 (1793), New Holland. 
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Columba antarctica Shaw, Zool. of New Holland, PL 5 (1793). 
Columba dilopha Temminck, Trans. Linn. Soc., XIII., p. 124 (1821) ; id., PL Col. pi. 162 
(Oct., 1822) ; Selby, Nat. Libr., Pigeons, V., p. 129, PL 10 (1835). 
Lophorynchus dilophus Swainson, Classif. B., II., p. 348 (1837). 
Lophorhynchus antarcticus Gray, List. Gen. B., p. 58 (1840). 
Lopholaimus antarcticus Gould, B. Austr., V., PL 61 (1841) ; id., Handb. B. Austr., II., p. 116 
(1865) ; Ramsay, P.Z.S., p. 115 (1876) ; Masters, P.L.S., N.S.W., L, p. 58 (1876) ; 
Ramsay, ib., p. 183 ; id.. Tab. List Austr. B., p. 18 (1888) ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., 
No. 12, p. 271 (1889) ; id., Rec. Austr. Mus., L, p. 117 (1891) ; id., P.L.S., 
N.S.W. (2), V., p. 881 (1891). 
Lopholcemus antarctica Bonaparte, Compt. Rend,, XXXIX., p. 1103 (1854). 
Lopholcemus antarcticus Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., XL., p. 218 (1855). 
Muscudivora antarctica Scblegel, De Dierent., p. 210 (1864). 
Stictcenas antarctica Scblegel, Mus. P.-B. IV., Columbse, p. 74 (1873). 
Lopholcemus antarcticus Salvador!, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXI., p. 235 (1893) ; North, B. County 
Cumberland, p. 105 (1898) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. B., p. 671 (1901) ; 
Hall, Key B. Austr., p. 70 (1906) ; Mathews, Handl. B. Austral., p. 9 (1908) ; 
Littler, Handb. B. Tasmania, p. 102 (1910). 
Distribution. Cape York to Tasmania ; accidental in the latter island. 
Adult male. General colour both above and below grey, being much paler on the latter ; aU 
the feathers with silky white down-like bases ; wings and back pale slate-grey, 
somewhat lighter on the lower-back, rump and upper tail-coverts ; bastard^wing, 
primary-coverts and quills black, the innermost secondaries like the back, somewhat 
darker on the inner webs ; tail black, grey at the base and crossed by a buff band near 
the tip ; frontal crest grey, occipital portion chestnut, some of the lateral feathers 
black ; feathers of the breast, hind-neck and upper-mantle trifurcated, showing black on 
the middle portion, more particularly on the upper-mantle, where it imparts a more or 
less streaked appearance ; remainder of under-surface, including the under wing- 
coverts and axiUaries pale ashy-grey ; “ BiU rose-red, inclining to lilac at the tip, 
fleshy part covering the nostrils and base of lower mandible greenish-lead colour ; 
iris fiery orange, bare space round the eyes red ; feet purplish-red, back of tarsus and 
soles of feet greyish-brown ” (J. Gould). Total length, 460 mm. ; culmen, exposed 
portion, 14 ; wing, 283 ; tail, 172 ; tarsus 29. 
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