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  • Columba meridionalis Latham, J. 1801. Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae. London : G. Leigh, J. & S. Sotheby 74 pp. [60] [probably based on material or untraced drawings from the First Fleet settlement in the region of Port Jackson, NSW; name based on the Southern Pigeon on p. 270 in Latham, J. 1802. Supplement II. to the General Synopsis of Birds. London : Leigh, Sotheby & Son 376 pp. pls CXX–CXL [publication dated as 1801], and considered to be possibly a badly described species of Phaps Selby, 1835 by 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 (641–642)].
    Type data:
     Status unknown, Australia (as Nova Hollandia).
  • Columba norfolciensis Latham, J. 1801. Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae. London : G. Leigh, J. & S. Sotheby 74 pp. [60] [name based on (i) a presumed male with white head and blackish purple back, wings and belly, and (ii) a presumed female with ferrugineous head and breast and green dorsum, see also the Norfolk Pigeon on p. 374 in Latham, J. 1802. Supplement II. to the General Synopsis of Birds. London : Leigh, Sotheby & Son 376 pp. pls CXX–CXL [publication dated as 1801]. The male may be the dove illustrated by Captain John Hunter when he was wrecked on Norfolk Is. in 1790, see Hindwood, K.A. 1965. John Hunter: A naturalist and artist of the First Fleet. Emu 65: 83–95; it is closest to members of the genus Gallicolumba Heck, 1849 in form, see Goodwin, D. 1983. Pigeons and Doves of the World. Ithaca : Cornell University Press 363 pp. 3 pls [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.], pace Mathews, G.M. 1912. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 1 xiv 301 pp. pls 1–67 [6 parts; published between 1910–1912; publication dated as 1910–1911]; RAOU Checklist Committee, Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union 1926. Official Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union x 212 pp.; Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp.. (Gallicolumba has been recorded as a subfossil on Norfolk Is. (Rich et. al. In Schodde, R., Fullagar, P. & Hermes, N. 1983. A Review of Norfolk Island Birds: Past and Present. Canberra : Aust. Natl Parks Wldlf. Serv. Spec. Publ. 8 viii (un–numbered) 119 pp.) but there is no concrete evidence linking it to the form on which norfolciensis was based). The female, however, arguably matches the regional form of Chalcophaps indica (Linnaeus, 1758) occurring on Norfolk Is. and elsewhere in the southwest Pacific, almost a hundred years before it was supposed to have established itself on Norfolk Is., see Bassett-Hull, A.F. 1910. The Birds of Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 34: 636–693. Because Columba norfolciensis Latham, 1802 has previously been applied to yet another species of columbid with type locality in east Australia, see e.g., RAOU Checklist Committee, Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union 1926. Official Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union x 212 pp., the Standing Committee on Ornithological Nomenclature of the International Ornithological Committee has applied to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature for its suppression under ICZN Art. 79; name suppressed under ICZN Opinion 2251].
    Type data:
     Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (lost), Norfolk Is. (as insula Norfolk Maris Australis).
  • Columba marmorata Mitchell, T.L. 1838. Three Expeditions into the Interior of eastern Australia; with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix, and of the present colony of New South Wales. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 1 [xxiv] 351 pp. 21pls. [xviii] [assigned to Phaps histrionica (Gould, 1841) by Mathews, G.M. 1920. The Birds of Australia. Supplement No. 1. Check List of the Birds of Australia Part 1. Orders Casuariiformes to Menuriformes. London : Witherby iv 1–116 pp. (11), but identification to be doubted because Mitchell called Columba marmorata the 'Freckled Dove' and later collected Phaps histrionica as a 'new sort'].
    Type data:
     Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (formerly in AM, but now lost, see Bennett, G. 1837. Catalogue of Specimens of Natural History and miscellaneous curiosities deposited in the Australian Museum. Sydney : Australian Museum), (Fort) Bourke, NSW.
  • Geopelia shortridgei Ogilvie-Grant, W.R. 1909. In Proceedings of meeting of British Ornithologists' Club, April 21, 1909. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 23: 72-74 [73] [determined as a hybrid between Geopelia cuneata (Latham, 1802) and G. placida Gould, 1844, see Carter, T. 1914. Geopelia shortridgei Grant. Austral Avian Records 2: 108–109].
    Type data:
     Holotype BMNH 1905.12.26.435 ♂ adult (see Warren, R.L.M. 1966. Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 1 Non-Passerines. London : British Museum ix 320 pp.), Carnarvon, WA.
  • Lophophaps ferruginea mungi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [190] [intergrade between Geophaps plumifera plumifera Gould, 1842 and G. p. ferruginea (Gould, 1865), from the north-west region of their zone of intergradation, see Crome, F.H.J., Carpenter, S.M. & Frith, H.J. 1980. Geographic variation and taxonomy of the Spinifex Pigeon, Geophaps plumifera. Australian Journal of Zoology 28: 135–150].
    Type data:
     Holotype AMNH 616006 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 9110, see 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), Mungi Rock Hole, c. 40 km SE of Babrongan Tower, E Edgar Range, WA (as Mungi, NW Australia).

 

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