112 BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 



The only outward differences between the sexes consist in 

 the somewhat smaller size and less brilliant colouring of the 

 female. 



Head, throat, and ear-coverts grey; all the upper surface, 

 wings, and tail sulphur-green ; each of the wing-coverts with 

 an oblong mark of rich yellow at tlie tip, forming an oblique 

 band across the shoulder ; line down the centre of the throat, 

 chest and abdomen rich purple ; under wing-coverts, vent, 

 thighs, and under tail-coverts rich orange-yellow ; basal por- 

 tion of the inner webs of the primaries and secondaries 

 cinnamon. 



Total length 14 inches ; bill 1 ; wing 7 ; tail 6 ; tarsi f . 



u Genus LEUCOMtELANA, Bonaparte. 



Bonaparte places the next species in his division Falmnhece, 

 but keeps it distinct from the other genera of the section. 

 Although a bird of large size, it is certainly of a very delicate 

 structure, and in this respect differs from the other members 

 of the family. 



Sp. 456. LEUCOMEL^NA NORFOLCIENSIS. 

 White-headed Fruit-Pigeon. 



Columba norfolciensis, Lath. Ind. Orn., Supp. p. Ix. 



leucomela, Temm. in Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. xiii. p. 126. 



leucomelana, Wagl. Syst. Av,, Columba, sp. 56. 



Carpophnga norfolciensis, Gray, List of Spec, of Birds in Coll. Brit. 



Mus., part iii. p. 5. 

 Alsocomus leucomela, Blyth. 



Myristicivora norfolciensis, Reich. Syst. Av,, t. ccxxix. figs. 1280-82. 

 Leucomelana norfolciensis, Bouap. Coup d^OEil des Pig., Compt. Rend 



de l^Acad. Sci., torn, xxxix et xl. 1854, 1855. 



Carpophaga leucomela, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. v. pi. 59. 



This fine species of Pigeon is an inhabitant of those vast 

 primaeval forests of New South Wales to which the colonists 



