Bibliography for Columbinae

• Amadon, D. 1943. Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. 52 Notes on some non-passerine genera, 3. American Museum Novitates 1237: 1-22
• Blyth, E. 1870. Notes relating chiefly to the birds of India. Ibis 2 6: 157-176
• Boehm, E.F. 1961. Indian Turtle-dove extends in range in South Australia. The Emu 61: 55
• Boetticher, H. von 1954. Die Taubengattung Columba L. Zoologischer Anzeiger 153: 49-64
• Boghdanov, M. 1884. Conspectus Avium Imperii Rossici. St.-Pétersbourg : Commissionaires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences Fasc. 1 122 pp.
• Bonaparte, C.L. 1854. Coup d'oeil sur l'ordre des pigeons. Comptes Rendus (Hebdomadaires) des Séances de l'Academie des Sciences. Série D. Sciences Naturelles 39: 1102-1112
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• Bonaparte, C.L. 1855. Coup d'oeil sur l'ordre des pigeons. Comptes Rendus (Hebdomadaires) des Séances de l'Academie des Sciences. Série D. Sciences Naturelles 40: 15-24 [published 3 Jan.]
• Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp.
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• Corbin, K.W. 1968. Taxonomic relationships of some Columba species. Condor 70: 1-13
• Cramp, S. (ed.) 1985. Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palaearctic. Oxford : Oxford University Press Vol. 4 960 pp. 98 pls.
• Crome, F.H.J. 1975. The ecology of fruit pigeons in tropical northern Queensland. Australian Wildlife Research 2: 155-185
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• Frith, H.J. 1982. Pigeons and Doves of Australia. Adelaide : Rigby vii 304 pp., 32 pls.
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• Gmelin, J.F. 1789. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Linné, editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata. Regnum Animalium. Leipzig (Lipsiae) : G.E. Beer Vol. 1(2) 501-1032 pp. [publication dated 1788]
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• Goodwin, D. 1967. Australian pigeons: their affinities and status. The Emu 66: 319-336
• Goodwin, D. 1983. Pigeons and Doves of the World. Ithaca : Cornell University Press 363 pp. 3 pls.
• Gould, J. 1865. Handbook to the Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 2 629 pp. [For publication date Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp.]
• Greenway, J.C. 1978. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Pt 2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 161: 1-306
• Hartert, E. 1916. Notes on pigeons. Novitates Zoologicae 23: 78-88
• Hartert, E. 1920. Die Vögel der paläarktischen Fauna. Systematische Übersicht der in Europa, Nord-Asien und der Mittelmeerregion vorkommenden Vögel. Berlin : R. Friedländer & Sohn Bd Vol. 2(5 & 6) 1345-1600 pp.
• Hindwood, K.A. 1940. The birds of Lord Howe Island. The Emu 40: 1-86 pl. 1
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• Johnston, R.F. 1962. The taxonomy of pigeons. Condor 64: 69-74
• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp.
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• Mathews, G.M. 1915. Raperia godmanae. A new bird from Lord Howe Island, now extinct. Austral Avian Records 3: 21-24
• Mathews, G.M. 1916. List of additions of new sub-species to, and changes in, my "List of the Birds of Australia". Austral Avian Records 3(3): 53-68 [Date published 4 Apr 1916]
• Mathews, G.M. 1923. On type designation of avian genera. Austral Avian Records 5: 74-80
• Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp.
• Mathews, G.M. 1927. Systema Avium Australasianarum. A systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region. London : British Ornithologists' Union Pt 1 iv 426 pp.
• Mathews, G.M. 1928. The Birds of Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands and the Australasian South Polar Quadrant with Additions to "The Birds of Australia". London : H.F. & G. Witherby xii 139 pp. pls 1-45.
• Mathews, G.M. & Iredale, T. 1921. A Manual of the Birds of Australia. Orders Casuarii to Columbae. London : H.F. & G. Witherby Vol. 1 xxiv 279 pp. 36 pls.
• Mees, G.F. 1975. A list of the birds known from Roti and adjacent islets (Lesser Sunda Islands). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 49: 115-140
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• Ronsil, R. 1957. Madame Knip, née Pauline de Courcelles et son oeuvre ornithologique. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 3: 207-220
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• Roselaar, C.S. 1985. Steptopelia senegalensis. Geographical Variation. In Cramp, S. (ed.) Handbook of the Birds of Europe the Middle East and North Africa The Birds of the Western Palaearctic. Vol. IV Terns to Woodpeckers. Oxford : Oxford University Press. 960 pp. 98 pls
• Salvadori, T. 1893. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Columbae, or Pigeons. London : British Museum Vol. 21 xvii 676 pp. XV pls.
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