Order COLUMBIFOBMES 
No. 47. 
Family COLUMBIDJS. 
LOPHOPHAPS PLUMIFERA LEUCOGASTER. 
WHITE-BELLIED PLUMED PIGEON. 
Lophophaps leucogastee. Gould, B. Austr. Suppl., PI. 69 (1867), Machrihanish Station, 
South Australia. 
Geophaps plumifera (not Gould) Leichhardt, Journ. Overl. Exp. in Austr., p. 284 (1847) ; 
Sturt, Narr. Exp. Centr. Austr., App., p. 43 (1849). 
Lophophaps leucogaster Gould, B. Austr. Suppl., PI. 69 (1867) ; Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., 
L, p. 196 (1876) ; id., P.L.S., N.S.W. (2), I., p. 1095 (1887) ; id., Tab. List Austr. B., 
p. 18 (1888) ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 276 (1889) ; North and Keartland, 
Rep. Horn. Sc. Exp., II., p. 99 (1896) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. B., p. 693 
(1901) ; Hall, Key B. Austr., p. 72 (1906) ; Mathews, Bull. B.O.C., XXV., p. 34 
(1910). 
Phaps leucogaster Giebel, Thes. Orn., III., p. 90 (1877). 
Lophophaps ferruginea Campbell, Viet. Nat., III., p. 166 (1887). 
Distribution. Central Australia ; Queensland (Gulf of Carpentaria, Ramsay). 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface rich fawn-colour, barred with black and 
blue-grey on the hind-neck, sides of neck, upper back and wings ; lower back, 
rump, and upper tail-coverts more or less uniform, like the middle tail-feathers ; 
bastard-wing rufous, blackish on the outer webs ; primary-coverts and quills 
chestnut, the latter with black shafts and black tips to the outer ones ; secondaries 
blackish, margined with rufous, innermost secondaries like the back with 
green and purple metallic spots on the outer webs ; basal portion of outer tail- 
feathers reddish-grey, apical portion black ; fore-part of the head and ear-coverts 
blue-grey ; hinder part of the crown and crest deep fawn-colour, the long crest feathers 
sandy-buff ; lores and a Hne over the eye black, like the chin, and a line from the gape 
to the eye, also a band across the lower throat ; upper throat crossed by a white 
band ; fore-neck, sides of the body, and a narrow band across the lower breast, rich 
fawn-colour ; upper part of the abdomen and a narrow band across the breast pure 
white, a narrow black and grey band across the breast separating the white and 
ferruginous bands on the latter ; lower abdomen and thighs sandy-buff ; under 
wing-coverts chestnut ; under tail-coverts slate-grey, with pale margins ; BiU 
black ; tarsi and feet red (in skin). Total length, 227 mm. ; culmen, 21 ; wing, 122 ; 
tail, 80 ; tarsus, 21. 
Adult female. Similar to the male, but slightly smaller. 
Nest. “ A depression in the ground, lined with a few loose straws ; generally near a 
tussock of porcupine grass ” (Keartland). 
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