Order COLUMBIFORMES 
No. 33. 
Family COLUMBIDM. 
GEOPELIA HUMERALIS. 
BAERED-SHOULDEKED DOVE. 
(Plate 31.) 
CoLUMBA HUMERALIS Temminck, Trans. Linn. Soc., XIII., p. 128 (1821), Broad Sound, 
Queensland. 
ColurnbahumeralisTQmiamiGk, Trans. Linn. Soc., XIII., p. 128 (1821) ; id., PI. col. 191 (1823). 
Columha erythrauchen Wagler, Syst. Av. Columba, sp. 98 (1827). 
Peristera humeralis Boie, Isis, p. 327 (1828). 
Geopelia humeralis Gray, Gen. B., II., p. 471 (1844) ; Gould, B. Austr., V., PI. 72 (1848) ; 
Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., I., p. 184 (1876) ; Forbes, P.Z.S., p. 126 (1878) ; Ramsay, 
Tab. List Austr. B., p. 18 (1888) ; Salvador!, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXI., p. 455 (1893) ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. B., p. 675 (1901) ; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs Brit. 
Mus., I., p. 100 (1901) ; Milligan, Rep. Kimb. Exp., p. 57 (1902) ; Le Souef, Emu, II., 
p. 154 (1903) ; Hall, Emu, III., p. 42 (1903) ; Hartert, Nov. ZooL, XII., p. 196 (1905) ; 
HaU, Key B. Austr., p. 70 (1906) ; Mathews, Hand!. B. Austral., p. 10 (1908) ; 
Ingram, Ibis, p. 461 (1908) ; Mathews, Emu, IX., pp. 2, 53 (1909). 
Erythrauchceua humeralis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., II., p. 93 (1855) ; Gould, Handb. B. 
Austr., II., p. 142 (1865) ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 277 (1889). 
Erythauchoena humeralis Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., XL., p. 221 (1855). 
Chrysauchoena humeralis Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., XL., p. 210 (1855). 
Turtur humeralis Schlegel, De Dierent., p. 206 (1864). 
Erythrauchoena humeralis Gray, Handl. B., II., p. 236 (1870). 
Geopelia humilis (misprint) Garrod, P.Z.S., p. 256 (1874). 
Erythrauchena humeralis Campbell, Viet. Nat., IV., p. 185 (1888). 
Distribution. North-west Australia ; Northern Territory ; Queensland ; Ne'v^ South 
Wales (South New Guinea). 
Adult male. General colour above earth-brown, the feathers ever 5 nvhere margined with 
black ; occiput and hind-neck barred with grey and black ; feathers of the lower 
hind-neck and mantle very pale cinnamon, edged with black ; entire back and 
wings earth-brown, margined with black, being somewhat paler on the outer wing- 
coverts ; bastard-wing almost entirely earth-grey, with scarcely any black margins ; 
primary-co verts blackish, with chestnut on the inner webs ; quills blackish on the 
outer webs and at the tips, inner webs chestnut ; innermost secondaries like the 
back, with chestnut on the inner webs at the base ; middle tail-feathers grey, next 
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