Order COLUMBIFOMMES 
No. 48. 
Family COLUMBIDM. 
OCYPHAPS LOPHOTES. 
CRESTED PIGEON. 
(Plate 44.) 
COLITMBA LOPHOTES Temminck, PI. Col., ii., pi. 142 (1823) ; Blue Mountains, New South Wales. 
Columha lo'photes Temminck, PI. Col., ii., pi. 142 (1823) ; Wagler, Syst. Av. Columba, sp. 
103 (1827). 
Crested Pigeon of the Marshes Sturt, Two Exp. into S. Austraha, I., PI. p. 79 (1834). 
Turtur (?) lo'photes Selby, Nat. Libr., Pigeons, p. 174, PI. 18 (1835). 
Ocyphaps lophotes Gould, P.Z.S., p. 20 (1842) ; id., B. Austr., V., PI. 70 (1848) ; Sturt, 
Narr. Exp. Centr. Austr., App., p. 44 (1849) ; Bonaparte, Consp. Av., II., p. 93 
(1855) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr., II., p. 139 (1865) ; Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., 
VII., p. 410 (1882) ; id., Tab. List Austr. B., p. 18 (1888) ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat.i 
No. 12, p. 277 (1889) ; Salvadori, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXI., p. 535 (1893) ; North, 
Rep. Horn Sc. Exp., II., p. 99 (1896) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. B., p. 695 
(1901) ; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs Brit. Mus., p. 105 (1901) ; Hall, Emu, II., p. 61 (1902) ; 
Carter, Emu, III., p. 173 (1904) ; Hartert, Nov. Zook, XII., p. 198 (1905) ; Hall, 
Key B. Austr., p. 72 (1906) ; Berney, Emu, VI., p. 47 (1906) ; Mathews, Handl. b! 
Austral., p. 11 (1908). 
Phaps lophotes Schlegel, Mus. P.-B., IV., Columbse, p. 156 (1873). 
Distribution. Austraha generally. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-parts grey, with a strong blush of pink, more 
particularly on the hind-neck, sides of neck, and sides of breast, becoming more olive- 
grey on the rump and upper tail-coverts, with metallic-coppery reflections on the 
rump ; lesser wing-coverts pale grey, remainder of the coverts and scapulars barred 
with black, the median and greater series tipped with white, giving the appearance 
of two parallel bars of white, and enclosing a bronzy-green speculum ; the 
secondary quills also tipped with white, which indicates a third wing-bar ; a second 
wing-speculum of metallic -purple ; bastard- wing and primary-coverts grey, edged and 
tipped with white ; quills pale brown, whitish on the inner webs towards the base ; 
tail-feathers blackish, showing bronzy-green reflections and tipped with white, 
more broadly on the outer feathers ; head pale lead-grey, with an elongate crest of 
black feathers ; throat and under-surface pale grey, darker and more dusky on the 
flanks and under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white. Bill black ; 
iris orange, orbits pinkish-red. Total length, 310 mm. ; culmen, 22 ; wing, 163 ; 
tail, 123 ; tarsus, 25. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male, but somewhat paler on the wings and scapulars, 
and darker on the under tail-coverts. “ Bill dark-grey, iris ochreous-red, orbits 
carmine ; tarsi and feet pink ” (F. L. Whitlock). Wing, 156. 
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