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PEEISTEEIBiE. 



wing-coverts with a speculum of metallic greenish purple, barred 

 with a darker tint ; quills brown, edged with pale rufous on the 

 outer webs ; quills underneath grey ; under wing-coverts mostly 

 white, those along the edge of the wing brown ; tail reddish brown, 

 the lateral feathers with a broad apical black band : " bill black ; 

 irides black ; naked skin surrounding the eyes bluish lead-cokrar ; 

 the corner immediately before and behind the eye nearly vinous 

 red; feet and frontal scales dark purplish vinous red" (Gould). 

 Total length about 12 inches, wing 6, tail 4-5, bill 057, tarsus 

 1-05. 



Female. Similar to the male, only smaller. 



Hub. North-western and Eastern Australia, from Rockingham 

 Bay through the interior to Yictoria. 



«, b. Ad. sk. et Australia, April. Sir T. Mitchell [P.]. 

 pull. St. 



c. Ad. sic. Australia. Gould Coll. 



d, e. Ad. sk. Australia (J. T. Cockerell). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 /, g. 3 ad. et ad. sk. N.W. Australia, Sept., Nov. J. R. Elsev, Esq. [P.]. 

 h. Ad. st. Int. of Australia. Gould Coll. 



i. Ad. sk. (Queensland. Tweeddale Coll. 



A-. Ad. sk. Shoalwater Bay. Linn. Soc Coll. 



( Tvpe of species.) 

 /. Ad. sk. Zool.*Soc. Coll. 



2. Geophaps smithi. 



Columba smithi, Jard. # Selb. III. Orn. ii. pi. civ. (1836 ?). 



Geophaps smithi, Gould, B. Austr. v. pi. 68 (pt. vii., 1842) ; G. R. 

 Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 478, n. 1 (1845) ; Rclmb. Syn. Ac. ft". 1465-1466 

 (1874) ; id. Vbg. Neuholl. sp. 430 (1850) ; Bp. Consp. Av. ii. 

 p. 87 (1854) ; id. Compt. Bend. xl. pp. 206, 221, n. 260 (1855) ; id. 

 Coup d'a-il Ordre Pig. pp. 45, 59, n. 2C0 (1855) ; G. R. Gr. List 

 B. Brit. Mus. Columba;, p. 62 (1856) ; Rcknb. Tauben, i. p. 42, 

 t. 262. ff. 1465-66 (1862), ii. p. 166 (1862) ; Gould, Handb. B. 

 Austr. ii. p. 133 (1865) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 236, n. 9435 

 (1870) ; Rums. Br. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. i. p. 183 (1876), ii. p. 195 

 n. 528 (1878) ; Masters, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 275 (1878) 

 (Port Darwin) ; Rams. Tab. List, p. 18, n. 540 (1888) ; Skarpe, 

 Rev. Class. B. p. 69 (note) (1891). 



Phaps smithi, Sckleg. Mus. P.-B. Columba?, p. 155 (1873); Gieb. 

 Thes. Orn. iii. p. 91 (1877). 



Adult male. Head and all the upper parts brown, with an olive 

 tinge ; throat white, surrounded with a narrow grey band ; a white 

 line from the nostrils over the eyes, and a similar one from the base 

 of the lower mandible under the large naked space of a bright red- 

 dish-orange colour surrounding the eyes ; cheeks brownish grey ; 

 chest brown : on the centre of the breast a patch of clear grey 

 feathers, edged at the tip with black ; the feathers of the lower 

 breast grey, broad, with a narrow, subapical, dark band, and with a 

 whitish edge ; sides of the breast white ; middle of the abdomen 

 and vent of a fawn-colour ; flanks and under tail-coverts dark grey, 



