CATALOGUE OF CHARADRIFORMES. 143 
PHAPS, Se/by. 
chalcoptera (Lath.). Ten. 3 ¢ (ljr.), 32. Australia (Port Essington). 
Tasmania (Launceston, September). 
elegans (Zemm.). Seven. @,juv. Southern Australia (Victoria). Western 
Australia (Australind, December). Tasmania. 
GEOPHAPS, Gould. 
scripta (Zvmm.). Two. Australia. 
smithi (Jud. & Selby). Two. Jr. Northern Australia (Port Essington, 
October). 
LOPHOPHAPS, Reichenod. 
plumifera (ould). Three. 2 9. Northern Australia (Port Essington 
Expedition, River Lynd, June). 
leucogaster, Gould. 
ferruginea, Gould. 
OCYPHAPS, Gou/d. 
lophotes (Zemm.). Seven. 24, 9. Australia (Murray R.) 
No. 7 was collected by Capt. Sturt. 
HISTRIOPHAPS, Sa/vad. 
histrionica (Gould). Five. 2 3, ?, pull. Australia (New South Wales, 
Namoi, December). 
Nos. 1 and 2 were collected by Capt. Sturt; Nos. 3 and 4,¢6,92, from Namoi, 
interior of New South Wales, collected by Gould in December, 1839, and pur- 
chased from him, are very probably the Types of the species (P.Z.S., 1840, 
p. 114) though the female is not there described. 
PETROPHASSA, Gou/d. 
albipennis, Gould. 
rufipennis, Collett, P.Z.S., 1898, p. 354; pl. xxviii. 
“‘Head and neck greyish brown, each feather with whitish centre; throat yellowish 
white unspotted. Lores black ; a whitish narrow line above and below the eye- 
lids. All the upper surface and chest rufous brown ; each feather margined with 
rufous ; the centre of the feathers of the chest greyish white. Abdomen and 
under tail-coverts (as in P. albipennis) chocolate brown. No metallic spot on 
the upper wing-coverts, and on one of the secondaries as in that species. Prim- 
aries chestnut red, with the tips and outer web blackish, the latter with a slight 
metallic lustre. The under wing-coverts rufous brown, those of the primaries 
being more chestnut. Tail rufous brown on the upper surface, chocolate brown 
(with a slight blue gloss) underneath. Bill and feet as in P. albipennis. Wing, 
150-152; tail, 146-149 mm.” (Collett). Habitat. Arnhem Land, N. Australia. 
GEOTRYGONINA. 
HAPLOPELIA, Bp. 
larvata (Zemm.). Five. 24, 9 juv.,2 juv. South Africa (Macamac, 
July ; Natal). 
larvata, subsp. kilimensis, Newm. J.f.0., 1898, p. 289. 
“Differs from H. Jarvata, from Caffraria, in not having the white of the throat 
continued on to the fore-chest, and in having the copper-red tinge which in 
typical H. /arvata is spread over the whole under-surface confined to the upper 
breast, while the lower breast and belly is bright cinnamon brown without any 
bronzy sheen—as in H. inornata, Rehnw., from the Cameroons. Crissum white.” 
(Oscar Newnann). Habitat. East Central Africa, Kilima-Njaro. 
bronzina (Jtiipp.). One. Abyssinia. 
johnstoni, Shelley. One. Central Africa (Nyassaland, Milanji Hills). 
inornata, Rehnw. 
