Genus— P HAPS. 
Phaps Selby, Nat. Libr., Pigeons, p. 194 (1835) P. chalcoptera. 
Peristera (not Boie) Swainson, Class B., II., p. 349 (1837). 
Cosmopelia Sundevall, Methodi Naturales Avium Disponendarum 
Tentamen, p. 100 (1873) p. elegans. 
Structurally hardly different from Chalcophaps, except as regards the tail, 
which has sixteen rectrices, and is much more rounded. The metatarsus is com- 
paratively a little shorter. In the pattern of coloration the members of 
this genus differ from Chalcophaps in having some shining bright metallic 
spots on the wings, and in the absence of the dark bands across the rump. 
Distribution. Australia and Tasmania. (Two species only.) 
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