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Order COLUMBIFOEMES Family COLUMBIDJE. 
No. 32. 
MACROPYGIA PHASIANELLA. 
PHEASANT PIGEON. 
(Plate 30.) 
CoLUMBA PHASIANELLA Temminck, Trans. Linn, Soc., London, XIII., p. 129 (1821), The 
interior, towards Port Jackson. 
Columba phasianella Temminck, Trans. Linn. Soc., London, XIII., p. 129 (1821). 
Macropygia phasianeUa Swainson, Classif. B., II., p. 349 (1837) ; Gould, B. Austr., V., PI. 
75 (1848) ; Bonaparte, Consp. Av., II., p. 56 (1854) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr., II., 
p. 148 (1865) ; Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., I., p. 184 (1876) ; id., Tab. List Austr., B., 
p. 18 (1888) ; North, Rec. Austr. Mus., I., p. 117 (1891) ; Biggies, Handb. B. Austr., 
PI. 93 (1877) ; Wardlaw-Ramsay, Ibis, p. 220 (1890) ; Salvadori, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., 
XXI., p. 349 (1893) ; North, B, County Cumberland, p. 106 (1898) ; Robinson and 
Laverock, Ibis, p. 647 (1900) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. B., p. 674 (1901) ; 
HaU, Key B. Austr., p. 70 (1906); Mathews, Hand!. B. Austral., p. 10 (1908); 
Ingram, Ibis, p. 461 (1908). 
Turtur phasianellus Schlegel, Be Bierent., p. 206 (1864). 
Bistribijtion. Northern Territory ; Queensland ; New South Wales. 
Adult male. General colour above and below rufous-chestnut, paler on the imder-surface, 
with purple and green reflections on the hinder-neck and mantle ; bastard-wing, 
primary-coverts and quills blackish-brown, the latter with rufous edgings ; tail 
chestnut with indications of a blackish bar towards the tip on the three outer feathers, 
middle feathers with obsolete dark bars, scarcely visible ; forehead paler rufous 
than the crown ; chin buff ; throat, sides of face, and chest dark cinnamon, becoming 
paler on the breast and rufous-chestnut on the flanks and under tail-coverts ; under 
wing-coverts much darker chestnut ; under-surface of tail pale rufous, sonie of the 
outer feathers marked with slate-grey. “ Iris blue with an outer cirele of scarlet, 
orbital skin bluish-lilac, feet pink-red ” (J. Gould). “ Iris deep yellow” (Ashby). 
Total length, 382 mm. ; culmen, 24 ; wing, 197 ; tail, 187 ; tarsus, 22. 
Adult female. Biffers from the adult male, in its smaller size and paler coloration, the 
head chestnut, the lower hind-neck and upper back brown, minutely barred or 
dusted with rufous, the feathers of the wings and scapulars dark brown, everywhere 
margined with bright ehestnut, the bastard-wing, primary-eoverts and quills dark 
brown, edged with rufous ; rump and upper tail-coverts bright chestnut ; the tail 
similar but duller ; chin and middle of upper throat bufl ; sides of face and sides 
of neck pale chestnut with narrow black bars, becoming deeper chestnut colour 
on the fore-neck and chest, and with the dark bars wider apart, the abdomen 
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