COLUMBIA. 
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Geopelia sinica L. (21-458.) 
Columba sinica Linne, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. p. 164,1758 : India. (Fig. 
Temm, & Knip, pi. 47.) 
Columba striata Linn<$, ib. 12th od. p. 284 : China. 
Columba bantamensis Sparrman, Mus. Carls, fasc. iii. pi. 67, 1788 : Java. 
Columba lunulata Bonnaterre, Tabl. Encycl. Meth. Ornith. vol. 1, p. 251 1791 
China. 
Columba fowat id., ib.: China. 
Geopelia lineata Swainson, Classif. Birds, vol. ii. p. 348, 1837 : new name for 
Sparrm. pi. 67. 
Distr. — India to Celebes, Lombok, and Amboyna. 
Genus STICTOPELEIA Reichenbach. 
Stictopeleia Reichenbach, Nat. Syst. Vog. p. xxv, 1852 (1853). 
Type (by original designation) : Columba cuneata Latham. 
Stictopeleia cuneata (Latham). 
Distr .—Australia generally. Not Tasmania. 
Stictopeleia cuneata cuneata (Latham). (21-462.) 
Columba cuneata Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl. p. lxi, after May, 1801 : 
Sydney, New South Wales. (Fig. Gould, Austr. v. pi. 74.) 
Columba macquarie Quoy et Gainmrd, Voy. ‘Uranic,’ p. 122, pi. 31, Aug. 28th, 
1824 : New South Wuloa. 
Columba spiloptera Vigors, Zool. Journ. vol. v. p. 275, June 1830: Now South 
Wales. 
Turtur spilonota Mathews, Bull. Brit. Om. Club, vol. xliv. p. 70, March 31st, 
1924: as synonym of cuneata ex Gould, in Grey’s Two Exp. Austr. p. 419, 
1841. 
Distr. — Southern Australia. 
Stictopeleia cuneata mungi (Mathews). 
Geopelia cuneata mungi Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 187, 
Jan. 31st, 1912: Mungi, North-West Australia. (Fig. Math, 
pi. 33.) 
Distr . — Northern Australia. 
Genus CHALCOPHAPS Gould. 
Chalcophaps Gould, Birds Austr. pt. xiii., Dec. 1st, 1843 (vol. v. pi. 62). 
Type (by monotypy) : Columba chrysochlora Wagler. 
Monomis Hodgson, in Gray's Zool. MisceU. p. 85, June 29th, 1844. Type: 
Monornis perpulchra a nude name ( cf. Gray, List Mamm. p. 123, 1846.) 
Chalcophaps chrysochlora (Wagler). 
Distr .—Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales, 
Victoria, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, and Timor. 
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