The female has the head and neck dark cinnamon-brown, approaching to
chocolate; the wing-coverts much more green than in the male; face and
all the under surface cinnamon-brown, with merely a wash on the breast
of the vinaceous tint; upper tail-coverts brown; four centre
tail-feathers brown; the two next on each side chestnut-brown, and the
outer one on each side grey; all but the four middle ones crossed near
the tip with a broad band of black; and the soft parts similar, but less
brilliant than in the male.
The figures in the accompanying Plate were taken from specimens killed
in New South Wales, and are of the natural size.
[Illustration:
LEUCOSARCIA PICATA.
_J. Gould and H.C. Richter del et lith._ _C. Hullmandel Imp._
]
LEUCOSARCIA PICATA.
Wonga-wonga.
_Columba picata_, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. lix.—Wagl. Syst. Av.
Columba, sp. 42.
_Columba armillaris_, Colombe grivelée, Temm. Pig. et Gall., fol. 2nd
fam. pl. 6. p. 13.—Ib. Pig. et Gall., tom. i. pp. 97 and 447.—Shaw,
Gen. Zool., vol. xi. p. 15.
_Pied Pigeon_, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 268.—Ib. Gen. Hist.,
vol. viii. p. 47.
_Columba Jamiesonii_, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. Partie Zoolog., p. 123.
_Columba melanoleuca_, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. lix.—Wagl. Syst. Av.
Columbæ non visæ, sp. 8.
_Colombe Goadgang_, Temm. Pig., fol. p. 118.—Ib. Pig. et Gall., tom.
i. pp. 369 and 447.
_White-faced Pigeon_, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 268.—Ib. Gen.
Hist., vol. viii. p. 46.
_Wonga-wonga_, Aborigines of New South Wales.
_White-fleshed_ and _Wonga-wonga Pigeon_, Colonists of New South
Wales.
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