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22. HISTRIOPHAPS. 



Type. 

 Histriophaps, Salvad. MS. H. histrionica. 



Range. Confined to Australia. 



1. Histriophaps histrionica. 



Columba (Peristera) histrionica, Gould, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 114 (Interior 

 of Australia). 



Peristera histrionica, Gould, B. Austr. v. pi. 66 (pt. ii., 1841). 



Columba histrionica, Prev. $• Knip, Pig. ii. p. 83, pis. 45 ( c$ ), 51 ( 2 ) 

 (1838-43). 



Phaps histrionica, G. R. Gr. List Gallince Brit. Mus. p. 17 (1844) ; id. 

 Gen. B. ii. p. 477, n. 3 (1845) ; Rchnb. Syn. Av. if. 1459-60 (1847) ; 

 id. VSff. Neuholl. ep. 428 (1850) ; Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 90 

 (1854> ; id. Compt. Rend. xl. pp. 206, 221, n. 272 (1855) ; id. Coup 

 a? ceil Ordre Pig. pp. 44, 59, n. 272 (1855) ; G. R. Gr. List B. 

 Brit. Mus. Columba;, p. 61 (1856} ; ? Elsey, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 27 

 (X.W. Australia) ; Zuehold. J.f. O. 1858, p. 40; Rchnb. Tauben, 

 i. p. 38, t. 262. ff. 1459-60 (1862), ii. p. 166 (1862) ; Gould, 

 Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 127 (1865) ; Rams. Lbis, 1866, p. 333 (Port 

 Denison) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 628 ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. 

 p. 245, n. 9429 (1870) ; Sundev. Tent. p. 99 (1872) ; Finseh,J. f. O. 

 1872, p. 87 ; Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Columba;, p. 154 (1873) ; Gieb. 

 Thes. Orn. iii. p. 89 (1877) (syn. emend.) : Rams. Pr. Linn. Soc. 

 N. S. W. i. p. 183 (1876), ii. p. 195, n. 526 (1878) ; Sclat. List 

 Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 460 (1883) ; Rams. Tab. List, p. 18, n. 538 

 f 1888) ; North, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) iii. p. 148 (1888) ; id. 

 Nests $ Eggs B. Austr. p. 274 (1889) : Hein. § Rchnw. Nomencl. 

 Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 286 (1890) ; Benn. Rec. Austr. Mus. i. pp. 107, 

 108 (1891). 



Goura histrionica, Schleg. De Dierent. p. 209 (1864). 



Adult male. Forehead, stripe from behind the eye forming a 

 circle round the ear-coverts, and gorget snow-white ; remainder of 

 the head, throat, and ear-coverts jet-black ; all the upper surface, 

 wing-coverts, flanks, and two centre tail-feathers cinnamon-brown ; 

 breast and abdomen bluish grey ; under tail-coverts grey at the 

 base, light buff at the tip ; marginal upper wing-coverts and under 

 wing-covcrts bluish grey ; edge of the wing white ; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and primaries grey tipped with white ; the latter 

 with a pale brown tinge on the outer webs and cinnamon on the 

 basal part of the inner webs ; inner secondaries with a patch of 

 metallic purple on the outer webs; the two last with a white sub- 

 apical spot on the outer webs ; lateral tail-feathers bluish grey at 

 the base, passing into black towards the extremity, which is white : 

 " nostrils and bill black ; bare skin surrounding the eye purplish 

 black ; irides dark brown ; frontal scales of the legs and feet lilac- 

 red ; hind parts flesh-red " (Gould). Total length about 11 inches, 

 wing 8, tail 3-J5, bill 0-75, tarsus 1. 



Female. No white on the forehead, which is sandy rufous like the 

 upper parts ; ear-coverts aud throat dull blackish ; gorget and a 



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