Order COLUMBIFORMES 
No. 35. 
Family COLUMBIDJE. 
GEOPELIA CUNEATA. 
LITTLE DOVE. 
(Plate 33.) 
CoLTJMBA CUNEATA Latham, Ind. Orn. SuppL, p. LXI. (1801), New South Wales. 
Grey-necked Pigeon Latham, Gen. Syn. SuppL, II., p. 375 (1801), 
Columha cuneata Latham, Ind. Orn. SuppL, p. LXI. (1801). 
Columba macquarie Quoy et Gaimard, Voy. de LUranie et la Phys., p. 122, PL 31 (1824), 
Columha spiloptera Vigors, Zool. Journ., V., p. 275 (1830). 
Geopelia cuneata Gray, List Spec. Birds in Brit. Mus,, p. 11 (1844) ; Gould, B. Austr., V., 
PL 74 (1848) ; Sturt, Narr. Exp. Centr. Austr., App., p. 44 (1849) ; Ramsay, P.L.S., 
N.S.W., I., p. 184 (1876) ; Diggles, Handb. B. Austr., PL 92 (1877) ; Ramsay, P.L.S., 
N.S.W., VII., p. 54 (1882) ; Salvador!, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXI., p. 462 (1893) ; 
North, Horn Sc. Exp., II., p. 101 (1896) ; id., B. County Cumberland, p. 106 (1898) ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. B., p. 678 (1901) ; Le Souef, Emu, II., p. 154 (1903) ; 
Carter, Emu, III., p. 172 (1904) ; Hartert, Nov. ZooL, XII., p. 196 (1905) ; Hall, 
Key B. Austr., p. 71 (1906) ; Ingram, Ibis, p. 390 (1907) ; Mathews, Handl. B. 
Austral., p. 10 (1908) ; id., Emu, IX., p. 2 (1909). 
Stictopeleia cuneata Reichenbach, Syst. Av., p. XXV. (1852). 
Stictopelia cuneata Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., XL., p. 221 (1855) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr., 
IL, p. 146 (1865) ; Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W. (2), I., p. 1095 (1887) ; North, Austr. 
Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 279 (1889). 
Turtur cuneatus Schlegel, De Dierent., p. 207 (1864). 
Geopelia (Stictopelia) cuneata Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., II., p. 194 (1876). 
Distribution. Austraha generally. \\ 
Adult male. General colour above including the entire back and wings, pale brown, with 
small rounded spots of white on the wing-coverts and scapulars ; bastard- wing brown ; 
primary-coverts, and quills brown on the outer webs and tips, inner webs chestnut ; 
secondaries grey, without any chestnut ; middle tail-feathers grey, becoming blackish 
towards the tips and showing obsolete dark cross-bars for the entire length, the next 
pair blackish ; the four outer pairs black at base, with long white tips ; forehead 
and crown pale blue-grey hke the chin and throat, becoming darker on the breast 
and under wing-coverts ; axillaries and sides of body of the same colour, but paler ; 
abdomen and under tail-coverts white ; quill lining pale chestnut. BiU black ; 
iris red ; feet reddish-cream colour. Total length, 200 mm. ; culmen, 15 ; 
wing, 95 ; tail, 101 ; tarsus, 15. 
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