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Region, H. larvata of South Africa, H. bronzina of Abyssinia 
and Shoa, AH. principalis of Prince’s Island, H. simplex of St. 
Thomas, H. johnstoni of Nyassa-Land, and H. inornata of the 
Cameroons, being all much alike. The first-mentioned—common 
in woods near Cape Town—is plain brown, with green and 
purple gloss on the crown and nape, a white forehead and throat, 
and vinaceous breast with coppery reflexions. It is the Cinnamon 
or Lemon Dove of the colonists, and feeds chiefly on berries, 
obtained upon the ground. 
Group (c).—The third section of the Peristerinae is confined 
to the Old World, and shews metallic blue or green wing-spots 
or patches. Ocyphaps lophotes, the swift Crested Bronze-wing of 
the interior of Australa,is found in flocks, especially near water, 
and has a remarkable habit, when alighting, of erecting its long, 
black crest and elevating its tail until they alinost meet. It is 
a grey bird, possessing bronzy-green wing-coverts tipped with 
white, a metallic purple gloss on the secondaries, and peacock- 
blue outer rectrices. Lophophaps plumifera of North-West 
Australia, which has a western race, LZ. ferruginea, and a southern, 
L. leucogaste7, is a terrestrial species, frequenting creeks in the desert, 
and running on the ground like a Quail. The nest is a mere 
hole in the ground lined with a little grass; the eggs are said 
to be creamy-white. The Plumed Bronze-wing, as it is called, 
has the general plumage and full crest pale cinnamon, the throat 
white, with a black median stripe, a black gorget, a crescentic 
band of grey on the chest with a black line below, and a few 
purple spots on the secondaries. Geophaps scripta, the Partridge 
Bronze-wing or Squatter of North-West and East Australia, has 
a peculiar habit of squatting on the ground or on the branches of 
any tree in which it takes refuge. It is light brown above and 
grey below, with curious black and white markings on the sides 
of the head and throat; the wing-coverts have pale tips, and 
the innermost of the greater series greenish-purple outer webs. 
G. smithi of North-West Australia is browner. From the 
same parts comes Petrophassa albipennis, which frequents rocks, 
though its nest has not yet been recorded; it is a reddish-brown 
bird with greyer head, grey centres to the feathers, and concealed 
purplish spots on the wing-coverts; the throat is black and white, 
the primaries brown with white bases. Histrioniphaps histrionica, 
of the interior and North-West of Australia, has brown upper 
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