Forehead in some deep buff, in others buffy white; line under the eye and the chin yellowish white; crown of the head and occiput dark brown, bounded on the sides with plum-colour; sides of the neck grey; back of the neck and all the upper surface brown, each feather margined with tawny brown; wings brown with paler edges; each of the coverts with an oblong spot of rich lustrous coppery bronze on the outer web near the base, the outline of which towards the extremity of the feather is sharply defined; tip of each of the coverts grey fading into white on the extreme tip; two or three of the tertiaries with an oblong spot of lustrous green on their outer webs at the base, bounded by a narrow line of buff; two centre tail-feathers brown; the remainder deep grey, crossed by a band of black near the tip; under surface of the wing and inner edges of the primaries and secondaries ferruginous; breast deep vinaceous, passing into greyish on the centre of the abdomen and under tail-coverts; irides dark reddish brown; bill blackish grey; legs and feet carmine-red.
The figures represent the male and female of the natural size, the latter in the agonies of death from a shot-wound.
PERISTERA ELEGANS.
J. Gould and H.C. Richter del et lith. C. Hullmandel Imp.
PERISTERA ELEGANS.
Brush Bronze-winged Pigeon.
Columba elegans, Colombe Labrador, Temm. Pig., fol. 2d. fam. pl. 22. p. 56.—Temm. Pig. et Gall., tom. ii. pp. 240 and 466.—Wagl. Syst. Av. Columba, sp. 58.—Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. xi. p. 43.
Opaline Pigeon, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. viii. p. 33.
Columba Lawsonii, Sieber, Isis No. 67.
Ȍo-da, Aborigines of Western Australia.
Little Bronze Pigeon, Colonists of Swan River.