Order COLUM BIFORME 8 
No. 43. 
Family COLUMBID^. 
GEOPHAPS SCRIPTA. 
PARTRIDGE-PIGEON. 
(Plate 40.) 
CoLUMBA SCRIPTA Temminck, Trans. Linn. Soc., XIII., p. 127 (1821) ; Shoalwater Bay, 
Queensland. 
Columba scripta Temminck, Trans. Linn. Soo., XIII., p. 127 (1821) ; id., PL Col., ii., pi. 187 
(1823). 
Columba inscripta Wagler, Syst. Av. Columbse, sp. 69 (1827). 
Peristera scripta Swainson, Classif. B., II., p. 349 (1837). 
Geophaps scripta Gould, B. Austr., V., PI. 67 (1842) ; Leichliardt, Journ. Overl. Exp. in 
Austr., p. 155 (1847) ; Bonaparte, Consp. Av., II., p. 87 (1855) ; Gould, Handb., II., 
p. 130 (1865) ; Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., I., p. 183 (1876) ; id.. Tab. List Austr. B., 
p. 18 (1888) ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 275 (1889) ; Sclater, P.Z.S., p. 76 
(1892) ; Salvadori, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXI., p. 531 (1893) ; Hartert, Nov. 
Zook, VI., p. 428 (1899) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. B., p. 689 (1901) ; 
Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs Brit. Mus., I., p. 104 (1901) ; HaU, Key B. Austr., p. 72 (1906) ; 
Mathews, Handl. B. Austral., p. 11 (1908) ; Newman, Avicult. Mag., VI„ p. 337 
(1908). 
Goura scripta Schlegel, De Dierent., p. 209 (1864). 
Phaps scripta Schlegel, Mus. P.-B., IV.. Columbse, p. 155 (1873). 
Distribution. Queensland ; New South Wales ; Central Australia ; North-west 
Austr aha. 
Adult. General colour of the upper-surface earth-brown, including the head, entire back, 
and middle tail-feathers ; wings darker than the back, with broad pale margins 
to the feathers ; vdng-speculum wavy green, with coppery reflections ; \ ^ bastard- 
wing, primary-coverts, and quiUs pale brown, with whitish edges to the outer webs of 
the latter ; margins of the secondary-quills rufous ; outer tail-feathers rufous-grey, with 
black tips ; a white hne on the lores, which surmounts the narrow black band round 
the eye ; chin and throat white, as also a line along the cheeks, which includes the 
ear-coverts ; a line of black feathers which encircles the white throat and extends 
on to the sides of the neck behind the ear-coverts ; fore-neck and sides of the neck 
like the back ; breast and middle of the abdomen blue-grey ; sides of the body and 
under wing-coverts white ; small marginal coverts on the under-edge of the wing 
similar in colour to the upper-surface ; axiUaries white at base, and dusted with grey 
towards the ends ; lower abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts sandy-buff, the 
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