ptilopteri

pl. [Greek ptilon =a downy feather, and pteron a wing.] Zool.: An order of birds containing only a single species, the penguins. ptil-o-pus, subst. [Pref. ptilo-, and Gr. pous =a foot.] Ornith.: A genus of Columbide, with fifty-two species, from the Australian region (excluding New Zealand) and the Indo-Malay sub-region. Jerdon describes them as "pigeons of very large size, adorned in many cases with rich and metallic le . The tarsus is short, and the feet are broad. colors, with the lower parts usually pale and glo The forehead is low in profile, and the feathers advance on the soft portion of the bill; gape wide. So far as is known, they lay but a single egg."