530 



TERISTEKID^;. 



patch below the ear-coverts whitish buff; crop-region pale sandy 

 brown ; tips of the primaries and lateral tail-feathers whitish buff. 



Hah. Interior of Australia, and also Ports Darwin and Derby, 

 N.W. Australia. 



<>, b. S 2 a d. sk. 

 c. 2 ? ad. sk. 

 d> e > /• <3 ad. sk. 



et st. 

 (j, h. c? $ ad. sk. 



c? ad. sk. 

 k, I, J $ ad. sk. 

 m. Skeleton. 



Australia. 

 Australia. 



S. Australia. 



Queensland. 



N.W. Australia, May. 



N.W. Australia. 



Gould Coll. 

 Zool. Soc. Coll. 

 Capt. Sturt [P.], 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 J. R. Elsey, Esq. [P.]. 

 Capt.Bowyer Bower [P.], 

 Zool. Soc. Coll. 



23. PETROPHASSA. 



Petrophassa, Gould, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 17:3 



Range. Confined to Australia. 



Type. 



P. albipennis 



1. Petrophassa albipennis. 



Petrophassa albipennis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 173 (N.W. Australia); 



id. B. Austr. v. pi. 71 (pt. x., 1843) ; G. It. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 476 



(1845); Rchnb. Syn. Av. ff. 1447-48 (1847); id. Vog. Neuholl. 



sp. 433 (1850) ; id. Av. Syst. Nat. p. xxv (1852) ; Bp. Consp. Av. 



ii. p. 87 (1854) ; id. Compt. Rend, xl. pp. 206, 221, n. 258 (1855) ; 



id, Coup d'wil Ordre Pig. pp. 45, 55, n. 258 (1855) ; G. R. Gr. 



List B. Brit. Mm. Columbse, p. 58 (1856) ; Elsey, P. Z. S. 1857, 



p. 27 (Victoria River Depot, N.W. Australia) : Rchnb. Tauben, i. 



p. 44, t. 260. ff. 1447-48 (1862), ii. p. 166 (1862) ; Gould, Handb. 



B. Austr. ii. p. 141 (1865) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 244, n. 9414 



(1870) ; Rams. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 196, n. 533 (1878) ; 



id. Tab. List, p. 18, n. 545 (1888). 

 ? Petrophassa n. sp., Zuchold, J.f. O. 1858, p. 40 (Moreton Bay). 

 Pbaps albipennis, Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 88 (1877). 



Adult male. Crown of the head and neck greyish brown, each 

 feather margined with sandy brown ; all the upper surface and 

 chest rufous brown, the centre of each feather inclining to grey ; 

 lores black ; throat black, with the feathers tipped with white ; 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts chocolate-brown ; some of the inner 

 upper wing-coverts and one of the inner secondaries have on the 

 outer web a metallic coppery-violet spot, almost concealed, which 

 has escaped Gould's notice ; quills dark brown, the primaries have 

 the basal half pure white ; tail rufous brown on the upper surface, 

 chocolate-brown underneath : bill and irides dark brown ; feet 

 reddish brown. Total length about 10 - 5 inches, wing 5-2, tail 4-5, 

 bill 0-6, tarsus 0\S. 



Female. Similar to the male. 



Hah. N.W. Australia. 



a, b. Ad. sk. 



c, d. $ ad. et juv. sk. 



N.W. Australia. 

 N.W. Australia, Feb., 

 May. 



Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



J. R. Elsey, Esq. [P.]. 



