Face and throat grey; occiput, back and wings ashy brown, each feather with a band of deep velvety black at the extremity; spurious wings and primaries dark brown; under surface of the shoulders chestnut; chest, sides and back of the neck grey, crossed by numerous narrow bands of black; abdomen and flanks vinous; four central tail-feathers ashy brown, the remainder black largely tipped with white; irides light ash-grey; bill and orbits bright greyish blue, becoming much paler before and behind the eye; frontal scales of the tarsi and feet dark greenish grey; remainder of the legs and feet reddish flesh-colour.
The Plate represents the two sexes of the natural size.
GEOPELIA CUNEATA.
J. Gould and H.C. Richter del et lith. Hullmandel & Walton Imp.
GEOPELIA CUNEATA.
Graceful Ground-Dove.
Columba cuneata, Lath. Ind. Orn., Supp., p. 61.—Wagl. Syst. Av., sp. 107.
—— Macquarie, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. de l’Uranie, Ois., t. 31.—Ib. Knip et Prevost, Hist. Nat. des Pig., t. 41
—— spiloptera, Vig. in Zool. Journ., vol. v. p. 275.
Geopelia cuneata, List of Brit. Mus. Coll., Part III. p. 11.
Men-na-brun-ka, Aborigines of the mountain districts of Western Australia.