Order COLUMBIFORMES 
No. 31. 
Family COLUMBIDJE. 
COLUMBA NORFOLCIENSIS. 
WHITE-HEADED FRUIT-PIGEON. 
(Plate 29.)* 
COLIJMBA NORFOLCIENSIS, Latham, Ind. Orn. Suppl., p. LX. (1801), Norfolk Island. 
(This locahty is probably wrong. We may accept the mainland as the correct locality.) 
Norfolk Pigeon Latham, Gen. Syn. Suppl., II., p. 374 (1801) ; id., Gen. Hist. B., VIII., 
p. 30 (1823). 
Columha norfolciensis Latham, Ind. Orn. Suppl., p. LX. (1801) ; Robinson and Laverock, 
Ibis, p. 647 (1900) ; Thienemann, Fortpflanz. ges. Vogel, p. 66 (1846), egg. 
Columha leucomela Temminck, Trans. Linn. Soc., XIII., London, p. 126 (1821); id., PI. col. 
186 (1823). Salvador!, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXI., p. 320 (1893); North, B. County 
Cumberland, p. 105 (1898) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. B., p. 672 (1901) ; 
Hall, Key B. Austr., p. 70 (1906) ; Mathews, Handl. B. Austral., p. 9 (1908). 
Columha leucomelana Wagler, Syst. Av. Columba, sp. 56 (1827). 
Carpophaga leuco^nela Gould, B. Austr. V., PL 59 (1848) ; Higgles, Handb. B. Austr., PI. 89 
(1877). 
Carpophaga norfolciensis Gray, List Spec. Birds in Brit. Mus., Part iii., p. 5 (1844) ; Ramsay, 
Tab. List Austr. B., p. 18 (1888) ; Le Souef, Viet. Nat., XIV., p. 100 (1897) 
Alsocomus [alscomus) leucomelas Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A.S.B,, p. 233 (1849). 
Leucomeloena norfolciensis Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., XXXIX., p. 1 104 (1854) ; Gould, Handb. 
B. Austr., II., p. 112 (1865); Masters, P.L.S., N.S.W., I., p. 58 (1876); Ramsay, 
P.L.S., N.S.W., I., p. 182 (1876). 
Leucomeloena norfolciensis, id., Compt. Rend., XXXIX., p. 1104 (1854). 
Leucomelaina norfolciensis Reichenbach, Tauben, p. 53 (1862). 
Myristicivora norfolciensis, id., ih., p. 200. 
Muscadivora leucomelana Schlegel, He Hierent., p. 210 (1864). 
Histribution. Queensland ; New South Wales. 
Adult male. Head and neck all round, as well as the greater portion of the under-parts, 
cream-colour with a pinkish-metallic gloss ; throat and cheeks pure white ; lower flanks 
dark slate-colour ; entire back and wings black with coppery-green margins which 
have purple reflections ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black like the 
tail ; under wing-coverts blackish, as also the under tail-coverts, the latter with coppery 
reflections; “ Bill and feet red ; iris yellowish ; bare space round the eye red ” (E. 
Ohve). Total length, 406 mm. ; culmen, 22 ; wing, 240 ; tail, 140 ; tarsus, 26. 
Adult female. Similar to the male. 
* The Plate is lettered Columba l&ucomela. 
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