526 PERISTEE1D.E. 



1. Phaps chalcoptera. 



Bronze-winged Pigeon, Phill. Bot. Bay, pi. p. 162 (1789); Lath. 

 Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 266, no. 1 (1802). 



Golden-winged Pigeon, White, Journ. pi. p. 145 (1790). 



Coluniba chalcoptera, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 604, n. 39 (1790) 

 (Norfolk Island); Bonn. Tall. Enc Meth. p. 244 (1790); Shaw, 

 Mus. Lever, p. 227, pi. 55 (1792) ; Temm. fy Knip, Pig. i. fam. sec. 

 p. 17, pi. 8 (1808-11) ; Temm. Pig. et Gall. i. pp. 108, 448 (1813) ; 

 Vieill. N. D. xxvi. p. 343 (1818) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. xi. p. 17 (lt<19) ; 

 Desm. Diet. Sc. Nat. xl. p. 321 (1826) ; Wayl. Syst. Av. Columba, 

 sp. 57 (1827) ; Less. Tr. dCOrn. p. 470 (1831) ; id. Compl. de Buff., 

 Ois. viii. p. 79 (1837) ; id. op. cit. 2nd ed. p. 290 (1838) ; Gulliv. 

 P. Z. S. 1875, p. 489. 



Phaps chalcoptera, Selb. Natural. Libr., Pigeons, p. 195, pi. 21 (1835) ; 

 G. R. Gr. List Gen. B. 2nd ed. p. 75 (1841) ; Haiti. Syst. Verz. 

 p. 99 (1844); G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 477, n. 1 (1845); Lichnb. 

 Syst. Av. ff. 1452-53 (1847) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 298, 

 no. 1443 (1849) ; Rchnb. Vog. Neuholl. sp. 426 (1850) ; id. Av. 

 Syst. Nat. p. xxv (1852); Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 90 (1854) ; id. 

 Compt. Rend. xl. pp. 206, 221, n. 270 (1855) ; id. Coup d'ceil 

 Ordre Pig. pp. 44, 59, n. 270 (1855) ; G. R. Gr. List B. 

 Brit. Mus. Columbie, p. 60 (1850) ; Zuchold, J. f. O. 1858, p. 40 ; 

 Homey. J. f. O. 1859, p. 361 ; Rchnb. Taliban, i. p. 35, t. 261. 

 ff. 1452-53 (1862) ; G. R. Gr. Ibis, 1862, p. 232 (Norfolk Is., 

 Phillijjs) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 122 (1865) ; Rams. Ibis, 

 1866, p. 333 (Port Denison) ; Midler, P. Z. S. 1809, p. 280 ; Sclat. 

 P. Z. S. 1809, p. 628 ; Hutt. Ibis, 1870, p. 397 (Auckland, intro- 

 duced) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 245, n. 9427 (1870) ; Sunder. 

 Tent. p. 99 (1872) ; Finsch, J. f. O. 1872, p. 87 ; Schley. Mus. 

 I'.-B. Columlj;e, p. 154 (1873) ; Soitsa. 3Ius. Nac. Lisb. Columbae, 

 p. 22 (1873) ; Gar rod, P. Z. S. 1873, pp. 468, 639, 1874, pp. 250, 

 256 ; Rams. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 116 ; Forbes, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 307 ; 

 Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 89 (1877) ; Rams. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 

 i p. 183 (1876), ii. p. 195, n. 524 (1878) ; Masters, Pr. Linn. Soc. 

 N. S. TV. ii. p. 275 (1878) ; Schmidt, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 314 ; Salv. 

 Cat. B. Stride/. Coll. p. 551 (1882) ; Sclat. List Vert. An. 8lh ed. 

 p. 460 (1883) ; Rams. Tab. List, p. 18, n. 536 (1888) ; North, 

 Nests # Eqqs B. Austr. p. 273 (1889) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 40 

 (1889) ; Hein. $ Rchnw. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 286 (1890) ; 

 Hartert, Kat. Vogekamml. p. 189 (1891). 



Peristera chalcoptera, Sw. Class. B. ii. p. 349 (1837) ; G.R. Gr. List 

 Gen. B. p. 58 (1840) ; Gould, B. Austr. v. pi. 64 (pt. xiii., Ib43). 



Goura chalcoptera, Schley. Dierent. p. 209 (lb64). 



Adult male. Front white, more or less tinged with fulvous, a 

 band across the crown extending on the sides of the occiput dull 

 purple ; occiput, hind ueck, and upper part brown-grey ; the feathers 

 of the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, and also the scapulars, 

 with lighter edges ; lores black ; a subocular line extending over 

 the ear-coverts white ; cheeks, ear-coverts, and sides of the neck 

 grey ; throat white ; breast vinous, changing iuto grey on the 

 abdomen ; sides brown-grey ; under tail-coverts grey, with light 

 edges at the tips ; wings brown-grey ; the wing-coverts with a broad 

 spot on the outer web of a rich coppery-red or golden bronze-green ; 



