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the inner secondaries have green-metallic spots, with steel-blue 

 reflection on the outer webs ; inner webs of the quills towards the 

 base rufous cinnamon, like the axillaries and the under wing- 

 coverts ; two centre tail-feathors brown-grey, the remainder deep 

 grey, crossed by a band of black near the tip, which is brown-grey : 

 " iridesdark reddish brown ; bill blackish grey : legs and feet carmine- 

 red " {Gould). Total length 13-5 inches, wing 7, tail 5-5, bill 0-60, 

 tarsus 0-95. 



Female and young. Duller than the male ; forehead grey ; no 

 purple band on the crown or on the sides of the occiput; edges 

 of the feathers of the upper parts broader and reddish grey ; no 

 vinous colour on the breast, which is greyish, with edges of the 

 feathers brownish ; metallic spots on the wing metallic golden 

 green. 



Hah. Australia and Tasmania. 



Baron Laugier's Coll. 

 Sir D. Cooper [P.l. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Salvin-Godmau Coll. 

 Zoological Societv's 



Coll. 

 J. B. Jukes, Esq. [P.l. 

 J. B. Jukes, Esq. [P.l. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Sir G. Grey [P.]. 

 Sir G. Grey [P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 C. G. II. Llovd, Esq. 



J.B.Jukes,Esq.[P.]. 

 Purchased. 



2. Phaps elegans. 



Columba elegans, Temm. Sf Knip, Piq. i. fam. sec. p. 56, pi. 2:? (1808- 

 11) ; Temm. Piq. et Gall. i. pp. 240, 4U6 (1813) ; VieUl. N. D. 

 xxvi. p. 350 (1818); Staph. Gen. Zool. xi. p. 43 (1819); VieOl. 

 Ene. Meth. i. p. 379 (1823) ; Desm. Diet S. Nat. xl. p. 330 (1826) : 

 Wagl. Si/st. Av. Columba, sp. 58 (1827) ; Less. Tr. tfOrn. p. 470 

 (1831) ; id. Compl. de Buff., Ois. viii. p. 79 (1837) ; id. op. cit. 

 2nded.p. 297 (1838). 



Columba lawsonii, Sieoer, Isis, 1825, Beyl. no. 1, Vog. cms Neuholl, 

 sp. n. 07 (deacr. nulla). 



Phaps elegans, Selln/, Xat. Libr., Pigeonx, p. 194 (1835); G. R. Gr. 

 Gen. B. ii. p. 477, n. 2 (1845)': Rchnb. Syn. Av. W. 1454-56 

 (1847); id. Vog. Neuholl. sp. 427 (1850) ; Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 90 

 (1854): id. Compt. Rend. xl. pp. 20(3, 221. n. 271 (ls55) : id. 

 Coup d'ail Ordre Pig. pp. 44, 59, n. 271 (1855); '■. R. Gr. List 

 B. Brit. Mm. Columbse, p. 61 (1856); Rchnb. Tauben, i. p. 37, 

 t. 261. if. 1454-56 (1862); Gould, Handb. 11. Austr. ii. p. 126 

 (1863); G.R. Gr. Hand-l. ii. p. 245, n. 9428 (1^70): Sundev. 



