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Forehead in some deep buff, in others buffy white ; Hne 

 under the eye and the chin yellowish white ; crown of the 

 head and occiput dark brown, bounded on the sides with 

 plum-colonr ; sides of the neck grey ; back of the neck and 

 all the upper surface brown, each feather margined with tawny 

 brown ; wings brown, with paler edges ; each of the coverts 

 with an oblong spot of rich lustrous coppery bronze on the 

 outer web near the base, the outline of which towards the 

 extremity of the feather is sharply defined ; tip of each of the 

 coverts grey, fading into white on the extreme tip ; two or 

 three of the tertiaries with an oblong spot of lustrous green 

 on their outer webs at the base, bounded by a narrow line of 

 buff; two centre tail-feathers brown ; the remainder deep 

 grey, crossed by a band of black near the tip ; under surface 

 of the wing and inner edges of the primaries and secondaries 

 ferruginous ; breast deep vinaceous, passing into greyish on 

 the centre of the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; irides dark 

 reddish brown ; bill blackish grey ; legs and feet carmine-red. 



Sp. 463. PHAPS ELEGANS. 



Brush Bronze-wing. 



Columba eleyans, Teram. Les Pig., fol., p. 56, pi. 22. 

 Opaline Pigeon, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. viii. p. 33. 

 Columba lawsonii, Sieber, Isis, No. 67. 

 Oo-da, Aborigines of Western Australia. 

 Little Bronze Pigeon, Colonists of Swan River. 



Peristera elegans, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. v. pi. 65. 



This species is neither so plentifid nor so widely distributed 

 as the Common Bronze-wing {Pimps clialcopterd) ; it is, how- 

 ever, tolerably abundant in Tasmania, the islands in Bass's 

 Straits, and the whole of the southern portion of the Australian 

 continent, from Swan River on the west to Moreton Bay on 

 the east. In Tasmania it is very numerous, from Circular 

 Head to the north-eastern corner of the island. It affects 



