Order COLUMBIFORMES 
No. 36. 
Family COLUMBIDM. 
CHALCOPHAPS CHRYSOCHLORA CHRYSOCHLORA. 
LITTLE GREEN PIGEON. 
(Plate 34.) 
CoLUMBA CHRYSOCHLORA AVagler, Syst. Av., sp. 79 (1827), jiustralia. 
Columha jaranica (misprint) Temminck et Knip, (not Gm.), Pig. fam. 2, PL 26 (1808). 
Columba chrysochlora Wagler, Syst. Av., sp. 79 (1827), excl. syn. 
Chalcophaps chrysochlora Gould, B. Austr., V., PI. 62 (1843) ; Bonaparte, Consp. Av., II., 
p. 92 (1855) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr., II., p. 118 (1865) ; Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., 
I., p. 183 (1876) ; Biggies, Handb. B. Austr., PI. 90 (1877) ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. 
B., p. 18 (1888) ; Campbell, Viet. Nat., IV., p. 185 (1888) ; Etheridge, Lord Howe 
Island, p. 10 (1889) ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, pp. 271, 373 (1889) ; Salvador!, 
Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXI., p. 511 (1893) ; North, B. County Cumberland, p. 105 (1898) ; 
Robinson and Laverock, Ibis, p. 648 (1900) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. B., 
p. 679 (1901) ; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs Brit. Mus., I., p. 103 (1901) ; Hall, Key 
B. Austr., p. 71 (1906) ; Mathews, Handl. B. Austral., p. 10 (1908). 
Peristera chrysochlora Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 179 (1865). 
Distribution. Victoria ; New South Wales ; Queensland ; Lord Howe Island. 
Adult male. Head, hind-neck, sides of the neck, and mantle dark vinous somewhat darker on 
the nape and hind-neck ; wings and inter-scapular region green, with coppery 
reflections ; some of the lesser wing-coverts edged with white, forming a band ; bastard- 
wing and primary-coverts black ; quills dark brown, with chestnut on the inner webs ; 
back, rump, and upper tail-coverts greenish-black, with indistinct metallic bars, 
in certain lights, and grey bands across the rump, the long upper tail-coverts paler 
towards the base ; outer tail-feathers grey, with a subapical black band, reikainder 
of the tail bronzy-brown ; sides of the face, chin, throat, and fore-neck vinous, becoming 
paler on the abdomen and sides of the body ; vent and under tail-coverts slate-grey, 
longer ones blackish ; under wing-coverts and the greater part of the quill lining 
chestnut; “Bill red, base greyish blue; iris brown, orbits grey; feet dull red” 
(E. Olive). Toted length, 240 mm. ; culmen, 22 ; wing, 153 ; tail, 89 ; tarsus, 27. 
Ad^ilt female. Differs from the adult male in having the head and hind-neck paler vinous ; 
wing-bar grey, instead of white ; upper tail-coverts brown, with dark edges to the 
feathers ; chin, throat and under-surface rust-brown ; under tail-coverts reddish- 
brown, with dark edges. Total length, 233 mm. ; culmen, 22 ; wing, 147 ; tail, 79 ; 
tarsus, 22. 
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