Order COLU MBIF0RME8 
No. 27. 
Family TEERONIDM. 
MEGALOPREPIA MAGNIFICA MAGNIFICA. 
PUKPLE-BREASTED FRUIT-PIGEON. 
(Plate 25.) 
CoLUMBA MAGNIFICA Temminck, Trans. Linn. Soc., XIII., p. 125 (1821) ; New South Wales 
(Red Point, south of WoUongong). 
Columha magnifica Temminck, Trans. Linn. Soc., XIII., p. 125 (1821); id., PI. Col., PI. 163 
(1822). 
Carpophaga magnifica Selby, Nat. Libr., Pigeons, p. 115, PI. 6 (1835) ; Gould, B. Austr., 
V., PI. 58 (1848) ; Diggles, Handb. B. Austr., PL 88 (1877). 
Ptilonopus magnificus Swainson, Classif. B., II., p. 347 (1837). 
Ptilinopus magnificus Hartlaub, Syst. Verz., p. 97 (1844) ; Le Souef, Ibis, p. 393 (1897). 
Megaloprepia Reichenbach, Syst. Av.,p. xxvi. (1852); Bonaparte, Consp. Av., II., 
p. 39 (1854) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr., IL, p. 110 (1865) ; Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., 
I., p. 182 (1876) ; Lumholtz, Among Cann., p. 214 (1889) ; Salvador!, Cat. B. Brit. 
Mus., XXL, p. 167 (1893) ; North, Rec. Austr. Mus., III., p. 16 (1897) ; Campbell, 
Viet. Nat., XIV., p. 5 (1897) ; North, B. County Cumberland, p. 105 (1898) ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. B., p. 666 (1901) ; Mathews, Handl. B. Austral., p. 9 (1908). 
Ptilopus magnificus Schlegel, De Dierent., p. 211 (1864) ; Elliott, P.Z.S., p. 575 (1878) ; 
Salvador!, P.Z.S., p. 66 (1879) ; 
Ptilinopus {Megaloprepia) magnificus Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. B., p. 17 (1888). 
Ptilopus magnifica Hall, Key B. Austr., p. 69 (1906). 
Distribution. Queensland ; New South Wales. 
Adult male. General colour above golden-green, including the sides of breast and sides 
of body ; an irregular band of yellow or yellowish-white across the wing, which is 
composed of yellow or white spots on the outer webs of the median coverts and inner 
greater coverts ; primary-quills blackish, green on the outer webs and cinnamon- 
brown on the inner ones towards the base ; tail-feathers green, with black shafts ; 
head and neck all round, including the throat, lavender-grey ; feathers of the breast 
dusky black at base, with a bar of green, and tipped with rich purple, this latter colour 
extends in a narrow line up the middle of the neck to the chin ; abdomen dull orange- 
yellow, like the axiUaries ; under wing-coverts bright orange-yeUow ; lower aspect 
of tail grey, quills below somewhat darker, with a patch of cinnamon at the base ; 
“ BiU red, yellow at tip ; iris red, bare skin round eye green ; feet green ” (E. Olive). 
Total length, 485 mm. ; culmen, 33 ; wing, 237 ; tail, 188 ; tarsus, 35. 
Adult female. Similar to the male, but slightly smaller. Total length, 460 mm. ; culmen, 
32 ; wing, 230 ; tail, 172 ; tarsus, 30, 
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