Order G0LUMBIF0RME8 
No. 45. 
Family COLUMBID.F. 
LOPHOPHAPS FERRUGINEA. 
RED PLUMED PIGEON. 
(Plate 42.) 
Lophophaps FERRUGINEA Gould, Handb. B. Austr., II., p. 137 (1865), Shark’s Bay, 
Western Australia. 
Lophophaps ferruginea Gould, Handb. B. Austr., II., p. 137 (1866) ; id., B. Austr. Suppl., 
PL 68 (1867) ; Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., I., p. 183 (1876) ; North, P.L.S., N.S.W., 
XXIII,, p. 382 (1898) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. B., p. 692 (1901) ; Hall, 
Emu, II., p. 60 (1902) ; Carter, Emu, III., p. 173 (1904) ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., 
XII., p. 198 (1905) ; Hall, Key B. Austr., p. 72 (1906) ; Mathews, Handl. B. 
Austral., p. 11 (1908). 
Peristera plumifera Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 179 (1865). 
Phaps ferruginea Giebel, Thes. Orn., Ill,, p. 89 (1877). 
Lophophaps plumifera Salvador!, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXI., p. 633 (1893) (not Syn.). 
Distribution. Western Australia, from Shark’s Bay northward. 
Adult male. General appearance of the upper-parts rich favn-colour, ivith indistinct 
dark bars on the back ; sides of neck and wings more distinctly barred with grey 
and black ; primary-coverts and quills bright chestnut, the latter margined on the 
outer webs, and tipped ’with bro-wn ; the secondaries brown, with pale margins, 
the iimermost ones -with purple metallic spots on the outer webs, which forms the 
wing-speculum ; middle tail-feathers Hke the back, the outer ones black ; fore-part 
of the head and ear-coverts blue-grey ; a narrow line of black at the base of the 
forehead encircling the eye and meeting its feUow on the chin, followed by a white 
band, which crosses the throat from the ear-coverts ; this is joined by a black 
collar on the loAver throat ; remainder of the under-surface fa-wn-colour, including 
the under wing-coverts ; a narrow pectoral band crosses the breast, the feathers 
of which are grey, banded with black and tipped with fa-wn-colour ; forehead 
blue-grey ; hinder cro^vn and crest fawn-colour, the elongated feathers buff ; long 
under tail-coverts grey, fringed with white ; lower aspect of the tail black ; “ Bill 
black ; iris Indian-red, orbits vermilion; tarsi and feet grey-black ” (F. L. Whitlock). 
Total length, 205 mm ; culmen, 20 ; wing, 104 ; tail, 64 ; tarsus, 22, 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male, both in colour of plumage and measurements. 
Nest. “ A slight grass-lined depression beneath the shelter of a spinifex tussock ” (North). 
Eggs. “ Clutch, two ; a swollen ellipse, and are more globular in shape than the generality 
of pigeons’ eggs, the grain of the shell being very fine, and its surface slightly glossy. 
They are of a uniform pale cream colour. Dimensions in inches .9 to .94 by .77 ” 
(North). 
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