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Genus HISTRIOPHAPS Salvadori. 
His trio]) haps Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. vol. xxi. p. 529, 
June 30th, 1893. Type (by original designation): Oolumba 
histrionica Gould. 
Histriophaps histrionica (Gould). 
Distr. —New South Wales, Queensland, Northern Territory, 
North-West Australia. 
Histriophaps histrionica histrionica (Gould). (21-529.) 
Columba ( Peris f era ) histrionica Gould, Birds Austr. pt. ii., March 1st, 
1841 : Liverpool Plains, New South Wales (interior). (Fig- Gould, 
Austr. v. pi. 66.) 
Columba marmorata Mathews, Clieck-list, pt. i. p. 11, Feb. 16th, 1920: as 
synonym of above, ex Mitchell, Three Exped. Austr. vol. i. p. xviii, 1838, n. n. 
Distr . —New South Wales and Queensland. 
Histriophaps histrionica alisteri (Mathews). 
Phaps histrionica alisteri Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 189, 
Jan. 31st, 1912 : Parry’s Creek, North-West Australia. (Fig. Math. 
pl.37.) 
Distr. —North-West Australia and Northern Territory. 
Genus PETROPHASSA Gould. 
Petrophassa Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1840, p. 173, July 1841. 
Type (by monotypy) : Petrophassa albipennis Gould. 
Petrophassa albipennis Gould. 
Distr. — North-West Australia and Northern Territory. 
etrophassa albipennis albipennis Gould. (21-530.) 
Petrophassa albipennis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1840, p. 173, 
July 1841: Wyndham, North-West Australia (East). (Fig. 
Gould, Austr. v. pi. 71.) 
Distr. — Adjoining parts of North-West Australia and Northern 
Territory. 
Petrophassa albipennis alisteri Mathews. 
Petrophassa albipennis alisteri Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i. 
p. 28, Apr. 2nd, 1912: Napier Broome Bay, North-West Australia 
(West). (Fig. Math. pi. 38.) 
Distr. —North-West Australia (West). 
Petrophassa rufipennis Collett. 
Petrophassa rujipennis Collett, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 354, pi. 28, 
Oct. 1st, 1898: South Alligator River, Northern Territory. (Fig. 
Math. pi. 39, and P. Z. S. 1898, pi. 28.) 
Distr . — Northern Territory. 
