Order COLU MBIFORMES. 
No. 418. 
Family TRERONIDJE^ 
GLOBICERA PACIFICA. 
QUEENSLAND PIGEON. 
(Plate 366 — Slower figure.) 
CoLTJMBA PAcmcA Gmelin, Syst. Nat., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 777, {ante April 20) 1789 : Friendly 
Islands. Extra-limital. 
Gldbicera pacifica queenslandica Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., No. 5, p, 86, Sept. 
24, 1914 : Mackay, North Queensland. 
Adult. Crown of head, sides of face, hind-neck, and mantle ash-grey ; entire back, 
upper tail-coverts, scapulars, wings, and tail bronze-green with pale coppery 
reflections on the back and wings ; inner webs of flight-quills blackish-brown ; 
tail darker than the back and inchning to steel-blue on the middle of the feathers, 
inner webs of the outer feathers blackish ; base of fore-head, fore-part of cheeks, 
chin, and throat greyish-white, becoming darker on the last ; a very narrow 
dark line on each side of the throat ; sides of the breast, sides of body, and thighs, 
ash-grey, becoming darker on the last ; middle of breast, abdomen, and vent 
pale vinous somewhat deeper in colour on the last ; under tail-coverts chestnut ; 
axillaries and inner under wing-coverts ash-grey, the outer ones darker and 
more slate-grey ; under-surface of flight-quills vinous-brown ; lower aspect of 
tail black. Total length 375 mm. ; culmen 21 (?), wing 239, tail 136, tarsus 33. 
Figured, Collected at Mackay, Queensland, and is the type of G. p. queenslandica.. 
In the Additions (p. xxv.) of my “ List of the Birds of Australia,” 1913,. 
I added the genus Olobicera with a species Gldbicera pacifica and a sub- 
species Ghbicera pacifica lepida Cassin. 
This was corrected in the Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II,, No. 5, p. 84, 
Sept. 24, 1914, as follows : — 
“p. xxv. Additions. Here I added the genus Ghbicera and doubt- 
fully indicated as an Australian bird, which I had recognised from North 
Queensland, Carpophaga lepida Cassin. The bird I had was certainly 
a subspecies of Gldbicera pacifica (Gmehn) and I sent it to Philadelphia 
for comparison with Cassin’s type there preserved. Mr. Stone returned 
it with the comment that it was quite different from Cassin’s birds 
which Salvadori had correctly placed under the species Ghbicera rubricera 
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