Order C0LUMBIF0BME8 Family PERI8TERIDJE. 
No. 37. 
CHALCOPHAPS CHRYSOCHLORA LONGIROSTRIS. 
LONG-BILLED GREEN PIGEON. 
Chalcophaps LONGIROSTRIS Gould, B, Austr., Intr., p. LXIX., sp, 424 (1848), Port 
Essington. 
Chalcophaps longirostris Gould, B. Austr., Intr., p. LXIX., sp. 424 (1848) ; Bonaparte, 
Consp. Av., II., p. 92 (1855) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr., II., p. 119 (1865) ; 
Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., I., p. 183 (1876) ; Diggles, Handb. B. Austr., p. opp. 
PI. 90 (1877) ; Masters, P.L.S., N.S.W., II., p. 275 (1877) ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. 
B., p. 18 (Note) (1888). 
Chalcophaps chrysochlora chrysochlora (not Wagler) Hartert, Nov. Zool., XII., p. 196 (1905). 
Chalcophaps occidentalis North, Viet. Nat., XXIV., p. 135 (1907). 
Distribution. Northern Territory. 
Adult male. Head, hind-neck, sides of the neck and mantle lilac, somewhat darker on the 
hinder part of the head ; wings and inter-scapular region green, with very strong 
coppery reflections ; a large white patch on the shoulder, which occupies the 
greater portion of the lesser wing-coverts ; bastard- wing and primary-coverts black ; 
quills dark brown on the margins of the outer webs, chestnut on the inner ones, the 
latter colour encroaching on both webs at the base of the inner primaries and 
secondary quills ; lower back blackish, with minute bronze bars on some of the 
feathers and crossed by a grey band ; tail for the most part black, the two outer 
pairs of feathers on each side grey, with a wide subterminal black band ; chin and 
throat vinous, becoming paler on the breast and abdomen ; vent and short under 
tail-coverts slate-colour, the longer ones black ; lower aspect of the tail-feathers 
black, with pale tips ; under wing-coverts and quill lining pale chestnut. “ Bill 
red ; iris brown ; tarsi and feet pink ” (J. T. Tunney). Total length, 260 mm. ; 
culmen, 26 ; wing, 158 ; tail, 86 ; tarsus, 23. 
Adult female. Distinguished from the male by the darker lilac -colour of the head an^ hind- 
neck, much smaller white shoulder-patch, and brown upper tail-coverts. Total 
length, 260 mm. ; culmen, 25 ; wing, 156 ; tail, 84. 
The type of Chalcophaps occidentalis was given to me by Mr. Edwin Ashby, 
and I find it to be identical with Gould’s Chalcophaps longirostris. Both 
types are from the Northern Territory. 
The birds described are Mr. North’s types of C. occidentalis. 
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