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Order COLUMBIFORMES Family COLUMBIDM. 
No. 39. 
PHAPS ELEGANS. 
BRUSH BRONZE-WINGED PIGEON. 
(Plate 36.) 
CoLUMBA ELEGANS Temminck et Knip, Pig. fam. 2, PI. 22 (1811), Tasmania, 
Columba elegans Temminck et Knip, Pig. fam. 2, PI. 22 (1811) ; Temminck, Pig. et Gall., 
1., p. 240 (1813). 
Phaps elegans Selby, Nat. Libr., Pigeons, p. 194 (1835) ; Sturt, Narr. Exp. Centr. Austr., 
11., App., p. 42 (1849) ; Bonaparte, Consp. Av., II., p. 90 (1855) ; Gould, Handb. 
B. Austr., II., p. 125 (1865) ; Bamsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., L, p. 183 (1876) ; id.. Tab. 
List Austr. B., p. 18 (1888) ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 274 (1889) ; 
Salvador!, Cat. B. Brit, Mus., XXI., p. 527 (1893) ; North, B. County Cumberland, 
p, 106 (1898) ; Keartland, B. Melbourne District, p. 112 (1900) ; Campbell, Nests 
and Eggs Austr. B,, p. 683 (1901) ; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs Brit, Mus., I., p. 104 
(1901) ; HaU, Key B. Austr., p. 71 (1906) ; Mathews, Handl. B. Austral., p. 11 
(1908) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, p. 188 (1910) ; Littler, Handb. B. Tasmania, p. 104 (1910). 
Peristera elegans Gould, B. Austr., V., PI. 65 (1848). 
Goura elegans Schlegel, De Dierent., p. 209 (1864). 
Gosmopelia elegans Sundevall, Method! Naturales Avium Disp. Tentamen, p. 100 (1873) ; 
Heine and Reichenow, Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn., p. 286 (1886). 
Distribution. Australia generally. 
Adult male. General colour above olive- or rufous-brown, including the back, wings, and tail ; 
throat, a line from behind the eye, hind-neck, and sides of the neck rich chestnut ; 
wings more rufous than the back ; wing-speculum metallic -bronze, copper, green and 
purple : some of the median and greater wing -coverts tipped with grey ; bastard-wing, 
primary-coverts, and quills brown, edged, more or less, with rufous, increa^g in 
extent on the quills, which are rufous on both webs for the greater part of their 
length ; the outer primaries have white margins towards the tips ; middle tail- 
feathers like the back, the outer ones slate-grey, with a blackish subterminal band 
and tipped with rufous-brown ; fore-part of the head and chin white, slightly tinged 
with chestnut ; hinder crown slate-grey ; sides of face and entire under-surface 
pale slate-grey ; axillaries and under wing-coverts chestnut, like the quiU lining. 
Iris hazel-brown. Total length, 335 mm. ; culmen, 26 ; wing, 167 ; tail, 88 ; 
tarsus, 27. 
Adult female. Differs from the adult male chiefly, in having much less rufous or chestnut 
on the plumage of the upper-parts, and the under-surface darker grey. There 
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