Order COLUMBIFORMES 
No. 38. 
Family COLUMBIDjE. 
PHAPS CHALCOPTERA. 
BRONZE-WINGED PIGEON. 
(Plate 35.) 
CoLTJMBA CHALCOPTERA Latham, Ind. Orn., II., p. 604 (1790), Norfolk Island. 
(This locality is no doubt ^vrong. We may accept the mainland of Australia as correct.) 
Bronze-winged Pigeon PhiUip, Voy. Bot. Bay, p. 162, PI. 26 (1789) ; Latham, Gen. Syn. 
Suppl. II., p. 266 (1801). 
Golden-winged Pigeon White, Voy. N.S. Wales, PI. 8 (1790). 
Columha chalcoptera Latham, Ind. Orn., II., p. 604 (1790) ; Temminck et Knip, Pig. 
fam. 2, PL 8 (1811) ; id., Pig. et GaU., I., p. 103 (1813) ; Field, Geogr. Mem. N.S.W., 
p. 503 (1825). 
Phups chalcoptera Selby, Nat. Libr., Pigeons, p. 195, PI. 21 (1835) ; Sturt, Narr. Exp. Oentr, 
Austr., App., p. 41 (1849) ; Bonaparte, Consp. Av., II., p. 90 (1855) ; Gould, Handb. 
B. Austr., II., p. 122 (1865) ; Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., I., p. 183 (1876) ; Diggles, 
Handb. B. Austr., PL 91 (1877) ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. B., p. 18 (1888) ; North, 
Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 273 (1889) ; Salvador!, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXI., p. 526 
(1893) ; North, Rep. Horn Sc. Exp., II., p. 98 (1896) ; id., B. County Cumberland, 
p. 106 (1898) ; Heartland, B. Melbourne District, p. 112 (1900) ; Campbell, Nests and 
Eggs Austr. B., p. 680 (1901) ; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs Brit. Mus., I., p. 103 (1901) ; 
Hartert, Nov. ZooL, XII., p. 197 (1905) ; Berney, Emu, VI., p. 47 (1906) ; HaU, Key 
B. Austr., p. 71 (1906) ; Austin, Emu, VII., p. 75 (1907) ; Ingram, Ibis, p. 390 (1907) ; 
Mathews, Handl. B. Austral., p. 10 (1908) ; id., Emu, IX., p. 2 (1909) ; Littler, 
Handb. B. Tasmania, p. 103 (1910). 
Peristera calcoptera Swainson, Classif. B., II., p. 349 (1837) ; Gould, B. Austr., V., p. 64 (1848). 
Goura chalcoptera Schlegel, De Dierent., p. 209 (1864). 
Distribution. Australia generally ; Tasmania. 
Adidt male. Forehead to the middle of the crown white, tinged with fulvous ; sides of the 
crown, and a band across the head adjoining the white, maroon-chestnut ; hinder 
part of head washed with grey, like the hind-neck ; ear-coverts and sides of the neck 
lead-grey ; back and scapulars, as also the rump and upper tail-coverts dark brown, 
with paler brown margins to the feathers, some of the scapulars and feathers of the 
lower back blackish-brown ; wing-coverts pale grey, with whitish edgings, the 
outer webs of the lesser and median coverts have metallic coppery reflections, those 
of the greater coverts are for the most part green, and those on the inner secondaries 
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