Order COLUMBIFORMES 
No. 49. 
Family COLUMBIDM. 
LEUCOSARCIA MELANOLEUCA. 
WONGA-WONGA. 
(Plate 45.)* 
CoLTJMBA MELANOLEUCA Latham, Ind. Orn. SuppL, p. LIX. (1801), New Holland (Port 
Jackson). 
White-faced Pigeon Latham, Gen. Syn. B. Suppl., 11., p. 268 (1801). 
Pied Pigeon, id., ih. 
Columba melanoleuca Latham, Ind. Orn. Suppl., p. LIX., No. 1 (1801). 
Columha picata, id., ib.. No. 2. 
Columba armillaris Temminck et Knip, Pig. fam. 2, PL VI. (1811) ; id., Pig. et Gall., I., 
p. 97 (1813). 
Colombe Goad-Oang Temminck, Pig. et Gall., I., p. 369 (1813). 
^^Colotnbe” Jamieson Quoy et Gaimard, Voy. de rUranie et la Phys. Zool., p. 123 (note) 
(1824). 
Columba jamiesonii Desmarest, Diet. Sc. Nat., XL., p. 310 (1826). 
Phaps “ picata ” Selby, Nat. Libr., Pigeons, p. 194 (1835). 
Carpophaga melanoleuca Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., XI. p. 194 (1843). 
Leucosarcia picata Gould, B. Austr., V., PL 63 (1843) ; Bonaparte, Consp. Av., II., p. 86 
(1855) ; Gould, Handl. B. Austr., II., p. 120 (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. 272 (1889) ; Salvador!, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXI., p. 607 (1893) ; North, 
B. County Cumberland, p. 105 (1898) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. B., p. 696 
(1901) ; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs Brit. Mus., p. 106 (1901) ; HaU, Viet. Nat., XVIII., 
p. 22 (1901) ; North, Agr. Gaz., XVI., p. 1014 (1905) ; HaU, Key B. Austr., p. 73 
(1906) ; Sharpe, Hist. Coll. B.M., p. 145 (1906) ; Le SouM, Wild Life in Austr., 
p. 149 (1907) ; Mathews, Handl. B. Austral., p. 12 (1908). 
Goura picata Schlegel, De Dierent., p. 208 (1864). 
Leptopila picata Schlegel, Mus. P.-B., IV., Columbae, p. 163 (1873). 
Distribution. Queensland ; New South Wales ; Victoria. 
Adult male. General colour above slate-grey, including the entire back, wings, and middle 
tail-feathers ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, the latter with 
narrow white margins on a portion of the inner webs ; the four outer tail-feathers 
* The Plate is lettered Leucosarcia picata. 
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