70 
COLUMBIDjE. 
Genus GEOPHAPS Gray. 
Geophaps Gray, Appendix List Gen. Birds, p. 12, March 1st, 1842. 
Type (by original designation): Columba scripta Temminck. 
Terraphaps Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i. p. 195, March 20th, 1913. Type 
(by original designation) : Columba smithii J. & S. 
Geophaps scripta (Temminck). 
Distr. —Queensland and New South Wales. 
Geophaps scripta scripta (Temminck). (21-531.) 
Columba scripta Temminck, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. vol. xiii. pt. i. 
p. 127, May 1821: Shoal water Bay, Queensland. (Fig. Gould, 
Austr. v. pi. 67; Math. pi. 40). 
Columba inscripta Waglor, Syst. Av., Columba, up. 59, p. 249,beforo Oct. 1827 : 
now namo for above. 
Distr .—South Queensland and New South Wales. 
Geophaps scripta bourkei Mathews. 
Geophaps scripta bourkei Mathews, Austral Av. ltec. vol. ii. p. 124, 
Jan. 28th, 1915: Bourke, New South Wales. 
Distr .—New South Wales (Western). 
Geophaps scripta peninsulae White. 
Geophaps scripta peninsulce White, Emu, vol. xxi. pt. iii. p. 163, 
Jan. 14th, 1922: Cape York, Queensland. 
Distr. —North Queensland. 
Geophaps smithii (J. S.). 
Distr .—Northern Territory and North-West Australia. 
Geophaps smithii smithii (Jardino & Selby). (21-532.) 
Columba smithii Jardine & Selby, Illustr. Ornitli. vol. ii. pi. 104, 1830, 
Dec.?: no locality (restricted to Northern Territory). (Fig. 
Gould, Austr. v. pi. 68; Math. pi. 41.) 
Geophaps smithii cecilse Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i. p. 29, Apr. 2nd, 1912 
Melville Island. 
Distr .—Northern Territory. 
Geophaps smithii blaauwi Mathews. 
Geophaps smithii blaauwi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i. p. 28, 
Ap. 2nd, 1912: Napier Broome Bay, North-West Australia. 
Distr. —North- West Australia. 
Genus LOPHOPHAPS Reich. 
Lophophaps Reichenbach, Nat. Syst. Yog. p. xxv, 1852 (1853). 
Type (by monotypy) : Geophaps pi urn if era Gould. 
Lophophaps ferruginea Gould. 
Distr. —Mid and North-West Australia. 
