Order COLUMBIFORMES 
No. 46. 
Family COLUMBIDM 
LOPHOPHAPS PLUMIFERA PLUMIFERA. 
PLUMED PIGEON. 
(Plate 43.)* 
Gbophaps PLUMIFERA Gould, P.Z.S., p. 19 (1842), North-west Coast of Australia (between 
Cape Hothamt and the Island of Depuch). 
Geophaj)s plumifera Gould, P.Z.S., p. 19 (1842) ; id., B. Austr., V., PI. 69 (1848) ; Bonaparte, 
Consp. Av., II., p. 87 (1855). 
Columba plumifera Prevost and Knip, Pig., II., p. 109, PI. 58 (1838-43). 
Lophophaps plumifera Reichenbach, Av. Syst., p. XXV., (1852) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr., 
II., p. 135 (1865) ; Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., I., p. 183 (1876) ; Campbell, Viet. Nat., 
II., p. 129 (1886) ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. B., p. 18 (1888) ; Campbell, Nests 
and Eggs Austr. B., p. 691 (1901) ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., XII., p. 197 (1905) ; Hall, 
Key B. Austr., p. 72 (1906) ; Mathews, Handl. B. Austral., p. 11 (1908) ; id., Emu, 
IX., pp. 2, 54 (1909). 
Goura plumifera Schlegel, De Dierent., p. 209 (1864). 
Pimps plumifera Schlegel, Mus. P.-B., IV., Columbae, p. 155 (1873), part. 
Lophophaps leucogaster (not Gould) Salvador!, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXI., p. 535 (1893) ; % 
Ingram, Ibis, p. 391 (1907)t ; Le Souef, Emu, II., p. 154 (1903). 
Distribution. North-western Australia ; Northern Territory. 
Adult male. General colour above sandy-buff, barred with black and grey, more coarsely on 
the wings and sides of neck ; primary-coverts and quills chestnut, the latter tipped 
with blackish-brown ; the outermost primary blackish on the outer web ; the 
greater number of the primaries have black shafts ; some of the inner secondaries 
brown, with whitish margins ; the innermost secondaries hke the back, with 
metaUic-purple spots on the outer webs ; middle tail-feathers like the back, outer pair 
almost entirely black, the remainder reddish-brown, broadly tipped with black ; 
fore-part of the head and ear-coverts blue-grey ; hinder part of the crown and crest 
bright fawn-colour, the elongated plumes straw-colour ; a narrow line of black on the 
forehead, which extends over and below the eye ; chin and lower throat black ; cheeks 
and upper throat white ; fore-neck, sides of the body and under wing-coverts fawn- 
colour ; abdomen and a band across the breast white ; an irregular band across the 
breast, composed of grey and black bars ; under tail-coverts slate-grey, margined with 
white ; “ Bill blackish ; iris yeUow, bare skin round the eyes crimson ; tarsi and feet 
very dark purple ” (J. P. Rogers). Total length, 230 mm. ; culmen, 19 ; wing, 108 ; 
tad, 62 ; tarsus, 20. 
* The Plate is lettered White-Bellied Plumed Pigeon. 
t Cape Hotham is in the Northern Territory, not far from the place where JohnMcDowall Stuart set up his flag 
after having successfully crossed the Continent in 1862. 
t Bird examined. 
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