25. lophophaps. 533 



edged with fawn or pale reddish colour ; outer webs of the inner 

 greater wing-coverts and of the tertials rich purple, with green wavy 

 reflections ; quills brown, with narrow buff edges on the outer webs ; 

 quills underneath grey ; under wing-coverts white, except those 

 along the edge of the wing, which are brown ; centre tail-feathers 

 brown, remainder brown, with a broad subapical black band and 

 brown tips : " irides of three colours, first a narrow ring of red, 

 next the purple, then a broader ring of pure white, and lastly a 

 narrow one of grey ; bill [thick and strong] blackish grey ; legs and 

 feet bluish grey ; back of the tarsi and inner sides of the feet 

 yellowish grey" (Gould). Total length about 11 inches, wing 5*3, 

 tail 3-75, bill 058, tarsus 1*12. 



Female. Similar to the male, only smaller. 



Hab. N.W. Australia, from Derby to the Gulf of Carpentaria. 



a, b. Ad. sk. et Port Essington. Capt. W. Chambers 



st. [P.]- 



<;•. Ad. sk. Port Essington. Dr. Sibbald [P.]. 



d, e,f. d 2 Depot, Victoria R., N.W. J. R. Elsey, Esq. [P.]. 



ad. sk. Australia, Feb., April, 



Nov. 

 y, h. Ad. sk. Australia (/. T. Cocker ell). Salviu-Godnian Coll. 



25. LOPHOPHAPS. 



lype. 

 Lophophaps, llchnb. Av. Syd. Nat. p. xxv (1852) .... L. plumifera. 



Range. Confined to Australia. 



Key to the Species *. 



a. Abdomen like the breast, cinnamon. 



a'. General cinnamon plumage paler plumifera, p. 533. 



// . ( reneral cinnamon plumage deeper ferruginea, p. 534. 



b. Abdomen and a baud before the grey pectoral band 



white leueoyaster, p. 535. 



1. Lophophaps plumifera. 



Geophaps plumifera, Gould, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 19 (N.W. coast of 

 Australia) ; id. B. Austr. v. pi. 69. (pt. vii., 1842) ; G.R. Gr. Gen. 

 B. ii. p. 478, n. 3 (1845) ; lichnb. Sy/i. Av. tf. 1461-62 (1847) ; id. 

 Vog. Neuholl. sp. 431 (1850) ; Bp. (Jonsp. Av. ii. p. 87 (1854) ; id. 



Columba plumifera, l'rev. §■ Kiiip, Piy. ii. p. 109, pi. 58 (1838-43) 



* Whether the three s-pecies mentioned are really different is still uncertain : 

 Gould himself seemed rather doubtful on this point. 



