534 PEEISTEEIDJE. 



Lophopbaps plumifera, Rchnb. Ao. Syst. Nat. p. xxv (1852) ; Gould, 

 Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 135 (1865) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 246, 

 n. 9436 (1870) ; Ra?ns. Pr.Linn. Soc. N. S. W. i. p. 183 (1876), ii. 

 p. 195, n. 529 (1878) ; Rams. Tab. List, p. 18, n. 542 (1888). 



Goura plumifera, Schley. De Dierent. p. 209 (1864). 



Phaps plumifera, Schley. Mus. P.-B. Coluniba?, p. 155 (part.) (1873) ; 

 Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 90 (1877). 



Adult male. General plumage pale cinnamon : forehead, and a 

 line on the sides of the crown, grey ; bare lores and naked skin 

 round the eye bounded above and below with a narrow line of black ; 

 centre of the crown and lengthened crest-plumes cinnamon, the 

 latter paling into whitish buff towards the tips ; throat and cheeks 

 white ; chin, a mesial gular stripe, and gorget black ; upper part of 

 the ear-coverts silvery white, lower part silvery grey ; on the chest 

 a crescentic band of grey, margined below with a narrower one of 

 black ; back of the neck and mantle with obsolete brown bars ; 

 upper wing-coverts and scapulars beautifully rayed with cinnamon 

 at the tip of the feathers, with brown in the middle part, and with 

 grey at the base ; primaries cinnamon, with the tip and outer web 

 of the first primary brown ; secondaries brown, edged with rufous, 

 and with the base of the inner webs cinnamon ; an oblong bronzy- 

 purple spot on the outer webs of three of the inner secondaries ; 

 under wing-coverts cinnamon ; under tail-coverts brown-grey, with 

 the outer webs whitish; central tail-feathers earthy brown, the 

 lateral feathers with the base brown-cinnamon on the outer webs, 

 inclining to grey on the inner ones, and with the apical portion 

 black : " bill olive-black ; irides yellow ; naked skin round the eye 

 either crimson or orange-red " {Gould). Total length 8 inches, 

 wing 4-2, tail 2-6, bill 0-65, tarsus 0-8. 



Hah. N.W. Australia. 



a-d. cf 2 ad. sk. N.W. Australia. Gapt. Bowyer Bower [P.]. 



2. Lophophaps femiginea. 



Lophopbaps femiginea, Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 137 (1865) 

 (W. Australia) (descr. nulla) ; id. B. Austr. Suppl. pi. 69. (pt. iv., 

 1867) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 246, n. 9437 (1870) ; Rams. Pr. 

 Linn. Soc. N. S. W. i. p. 183 (1876), ii. p. 195, n. 530 (1878) ; 

 Rams. Tab. List, p. 18, n. 542 (1888). 



Phaps plumifera, part., Schley. Mus. P.-B. Colurubae, p. 155 (1873). 



Phaps rerruginea, Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 89 (1877). 



Similar to L. plumifera, but the general cinnamon colour of a 

 deeper hue. 



Hah. Western Australia. 



a. Ad. sk. Gascoine River, W. Australia Gould Coll. 



(T. F. Greyory). (Type of species.) 



b. Ad. st. Champion Bay, \Y. Australia. A. H. Bu Boulay [C.]. 



