Let I d,g,R be the union of irreducible components of the Hilbert scheme whose general points parametrize smooth, irreducible, curves of degree d, genus g, which are non-degenerate in the projective space P R . Under some numerical assumptions on d, g and R, we construct irreducible components of I d,g,R other than the so-called distinguished component, dominating the moduli space Mg of smooth genus-g curves, which are generically smooth and turn out to be of dimension higher than the expected one. The general point of any such a component corresponds to a curve X ⊂ P R which is a suitable ramified m-cover of an irrational curve Y ⊂ P R−1 , m 2, lying in a surface cone over Y . The paper extends some of the results in [12,13].