I.OPHOPHAFS. 



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primaries einnnmou cohmr fipp'-d x'iih dark bro>ru . s,r,.„./ari,: dark hro,rn, maryinrd on llu'ir 

 outer ivebx with pale fanm colour, the four innenno,/, ,rilh nu ohiowj ^pol of bro.r.r-pnrpl,- towards the 

 tips of lh.nr out.'r jo-h.-; : ru,u/> and upprr lail-cor.-rts r,n,ia,nonln-ou-n, richer in colour on the 

 inaryins uf the feathers: central tail-f-athers cinnamond.rou;,, the reoiaind.r blackish, indistinctly 

 lipped n-ilh cinnamon-bron-n, their bases similar : a. line of feathers e.ct.ndiw, from the bas>' of the hdl 

 abore, and another below the ci/e, black: forehead and sides of crown </rey : hinder centre of crown 

 andlenijfheued crest /,! nines cinnamon, the latter pale r towards the tips: ear-core, t< ashijgreii : chin 

 black : upper throat, cheeks and a line abore the earcorerts wliite ; an oblon;/ spot on the centre oj the 

 throat black : feathers on the fn-eneck cinnamon, colour, those at the sides of the neck witb a narrow 

 bla.ck subterminal baud, the basal portion of the feathers yrey, as is also a band of cinnamon feathers 

 on the upper breast, and which is separated from the feathers of the f.rmer bij a broad white band; 

 remainder of the under snrface winte, passinc/ into creaio or cream,, buf on the abdomen and thi.jhs ; 

 lower siiles of the breast pale cinnamon : under tail-cocerts gre,/ish-bron:n, darker ou the longer ones, 

 and all margined with wliite, in some specimeyis faintly tinged at their ends with pale cinnamon or 

 buff: bill black : bare skin in front and around the eye orange-red : legs and feel light purple, soles 

 offcet dull yellowish-white: iris rich yellow. Total length inthejleshS lnches,wing4.5, tail .'■■], 

 bill lll'i, tarsus O'S. 



Adult FKMALE — Similar in plumage to the male. 



Li/s/n/.H/a'«.-North-westeni Australia, Northern Territory of South Australia, Northern 

 Oueensland, Central Australia, South Australia. 



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^IIERE are only two species of ground-frequentin.t^ Plumed Bronze-wings inhabiting 



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Australia, one is Lophofhaps plumifera, of which L. Icwosastcr is a synonym, and the 

 other L. fa-niiiiuca. The present species was described by Could in the " Proceedings of the 



Zoological Society of London," from a 

 single iinmature specimen obtained by 

 I\Ir. Benjamin Bynoe, Surgeon of His 

 Majesty's Surveying Ship " Beagle," 

 about one hundred miles up the N'ictoria 

 River, in the Northern Territory of South 

 Australia. Later on Gould figured tliis 

 specimen in his folio edition of the "Birds 

 of Australia" as Crcophaps plumifcra, and 

 subsequently ga\e h,L;ures fromadult birds 

 in his "Supplement" to that work, under 

 the name olLophopIiaps hvicognsici: There is 

 just the liifference between immature and 

 adult birds of L. plnmifird that Gould has 

 depicted in his two plates of this species. 

 In many specunens of immature birds 

 examined there was always more or less 

 an indication of the white or bufiy-white 

 spot on tlie centre of the breast and abdomen. His iigures of the adult bird in his "Supplement 

 to the Birds of Australia," under the name oi Luphcphaps IcuiOgasUi; are admirable, and accurately 

 represent newly moulted adult birds of this beautiful species. The range of the Plumed 

 Bronze-wing, or" Spinifex Pigeon," is an extensive one, occurring throughout North-western 

 Australia, the Northern Territory of South Australia, and the Gulf District of Northern 

 gueensland, and Captain Sturt records it as far south in South Australia as the "eastern 

 extremity of Cooper's Creek." 





PLUMED BRONZK-WIXO. 



