536 PERISTEKID.E. 



Phaps lopliotes, Schhg. Mm. P.-B. Columbse, p. 156 (1873) ; Gieb. 

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



Adult male. Head, face, throat, breast, and abdomen grey ; 

 lengthened occipital plumes black, with the base grey ; nape brown- 

 grey ; back and rump olive-grey ; upper tail-coverts greyish brown 

 tipped with white ; sides of neck and breast pinky salmon-colour ; 

 small and median upper wing-coverts buffy grey, except the outer ones, 

 which are pure grey, each feather crossed near the tip with a narrow 

 black band, giving this part of the plumage a barred appearance ; 

 greater wing-coverts shining bronzy green, margined with white ; 

 bastard-wing and primary-coverts grey, edged with white ; 

 primaries greyish black ; secondaries broadly margined with white, 

 the inner ones metallic purple on their outer webs ; under wing- 

 coverts pale grey ; flanks washed with brown ; under tail-coverts 

 dark grey ; two centre tail-feathers brown, the remainder blackish 

 brown, glossed with purple, blue, and green on their outer webs, 

 and tipped with white ; tail underneath brown-black, tipped with 

 white : " irides buffy orange ; orbits naked, wrinkled, and of a pink- 

 red ; bill olive-black; legs and feet pink-red" (Gould). Total 

 length about 12-5 inches, wing 6-8, tail 6, bill 0"55, tarsus 0'9. 



Female. Similar to the male, only somewhat smaller. 



Young. Similar to the adult bird. 



Hob. Interior of N. and E. Australia, from Port Darwin and Port 

 Essington to S. Australia. 



a. Ad. sk. Australia. Australian Museum [P.I. 



b, c, d. Ad. st. Australia. Sir T. Mitchell [P.]. 

 et pull. sk. 



e,f. Pull. sk. Bred in confinement. Zoological Society's Coll. 



(I, h. Ad. sk. Australia. Gould Coll. 



i, k, I. Ad. sk. Australia (/. T. Cockerel!). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



m, n, o. Ad. sk. N.W. Australia. Gregory's Expedition [CI. 



P> '!■ <S 2 ad. sk. N.W. Australia. Capt. Bowver Bower [P.J. 



r, s,t. S 2 Murray P., S. Australia. Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



ad. sk. 



u. Skeleton. Purchased. 



* Giebel, copying a mistake made in the Index of the P. Z. S. of London, 

 1830-47, p. 155, mentions a Phaps (Ocyphaps) micrurus (1. c.),instead of Pedio- 

 nomus micrurus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 20 ! 



