Order GOLU MBIF0RME8 
No. 40. 
Family COLUMBIDJE. 
HISTRIOPHAPS HISTRIONICA. 
FLOCK-PIGEON. 
(Plate 37.) 
COLTTMBA (Peristera) histrionica Gould, P.Z.S., p. 114 (1840), Interior of Australia. 
Columba {Peristera) histrionica Gould, P.Z.S., p. 114 (1840). 
Peristera histrionica Gould, B. Austr., V., PI. 66 (1841) ; Leichhardt, Journ. Overl. Exp. 
Austr., p. 296 (1847). 
Columba histrionica Prevost et Knip, Pig., II., pp. 83, 97, Pis. 45, 51 (1838-43). 
Phaps histrionica Gray, List Spec. B. Brit. Mus., p. 17 (1844) ; Sturt, Narr. Exp. Centr. 
Austr., App., p. 42 (1849) ; Bonaparte, Consp. Av., II., p. 90 (1855) ; Goidd, Handb. 
B. Austr., II., p. 127 (1865) ; Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., I., p. 183 (1876) ; Biggies, 
Handb. B. Austr., PI. 91 (1877) ; Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., VII., p. 409 (1882) ; 
id., Tab. List Austr. B., p. 18 (1888) ; North, P.L.S., N.S.W. (2), III., p. 148 (1888) ; 
id., Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 274 (1889). 
Goura histrionica Schlegel, De Dierent., p. 209 (1864). 
Histriophaps histrionica Salvador!, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXI., p. 529 (1893) ; Campbell, Nests 
and Eggs Austr. B., p. 684 (1901) ; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs Brit. Mus., p. 104 (1901) ; 
Carter, Emu, III., p. 173 (1904) ; Berney, Emu, VI., p. 47 (1906) ; HaU, Key B. Austr., 
p. 71 (1906) ; Ingram, Ibis, p. 391 (1907) ; Mathews, Hand!. B. Austral., p. 11 (1908) ; 
id., Emu, IX., p. 2 (1909). 
Distribution. North-western Australia ; Northern Territory ; Queensland ; New 
South Wales ; North of South Australia. 
Adul male. General colour above, including the entire back, wings, and tail sandy-brown ; 
marginal coverts round the bend of the wing, bastard-wmg, and primary-coverts blue- 
grey, more or less margined with white on the outer webs ; primary-quills pale grey 
with sandy edges and white tips to all but the outer two, inner webs rufous with the 
exception of the first quiU, outer secondary quills grey, darker towards the tips, 
inner ones sandy on the outer webs with a metallic-purple and green gloss followed 
by grey and an ovate spot of white ; middle tail-feathers like the back, the outer 
feathers grey, with a dark, subterminal band and tipped with wiiite, sometimes in the 
form of a spot, some of the lateral ones sandy on the outer webs ; sides of face, 
ear-coverts and crovm of head black ; forehead, lores, a line behind the eye, almost 
enclosing the ear-coverts, and a patch on the lower throat pure white ; fore-neck, 
breast, and abdomen blue-grey, like the axillaries and under wing-coverts ; lower 
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