Lores black; forehead and chin white; all the upper surface, wings and tail deep slate-grey; primaries brown; the three lateral tail-feathers on each side tipped with white; sides of the head light grey, gradually passing into the greyish black of the breast, which latter colour is interrupted on each side by a broad line of white which passes obliquely down, and meets on the centre of the breast near the lower margin of the greyish black; feathers of the abdomen and flanks white, the latter with a triangular black spot near the extremity of each feather; under tail-coverts dark brown, largely tipped with buff, particularly on the inner webs; irides very dark brown, surrounded by a narrow pink-red lash; tip of the bill purplish black; base of the bill and the fleshy operculum covering the nostrils pink-red; legs and feet bright pink-red. The Plate represents the male and female of the natural size. [Illustration: PERISTERA CHALCOPTERA. _J. Gould and H.C. Richter del et lith._ _C. Hullmandel Imp._ ] PERISTERA CHALCOPTERA, _Swains._ Bronze-winged Pigeon. _Columba chalcoptera_, Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. ii. p. 604.—Wagl. Syst. Av. Columba, sp. 57. _Colombe lumachelle_, Temm. Pig., fol. 2nde fam. pl. 8. p. 17.—Ib. Pig. et Gall., tom. ii. pp. 103 and 448. _La Tourterelle aux ailes dorées_, Sonn. edit. de Buff., tom. vii. p. 309. _Bronze-winged Pigeon_, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 266.—Phill. Bot. Bay, pl. in p. 162.—White’s Journ., pl. in p. 146.—Shaw, Lev. Mus., p. 227. pl. 55.—Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. viii. p. 31.—Steph. Cont. of Shaw’s Gen. Zool., vol. xi. p. 17, and vol. xiv. p. 280. _Peristera chalcoptera_, Swains. Class. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 349. _Phaps chalcoptera_, Selby, Nat. Lib. Orn., vol. v. Pigeons, p. 195. pl. 21.—G. R. Gray, List of Gen. of Birds, 2nd edit. p. 75. _Ȍo-da_, Aborigines of Western Australia. _Ar-a-wȁr-ra-wa_, Aborigines of Port Essington. _Bronze Pigeon_, Colonists of Swan River. The Bronze-winged Pigeon is so generally distributed over all parts of Australia, that, without a single exception, the colonists of every settlement have found the surrounding country inhabited by this fine bird. Specimens from Port Essington, Swan River, Van Diemen’s Land and New South Wales differ so little from each other, either in their size or markings, that they must all be regarded as one and the same species, the slight differences that do occur being too trivial to be considered as other than mere local variations.