Pigeons and Doves (Columbidae)

Chestnut-quilled Rock-pigeon (Petrophassa rufipennis) - HBW 4, p. 155

French: Colombine rufipenne German: Rotspiegeltaube Spanish: Paloma Roquera Alirrufa
Other common names: Red-quilled Rock-pigeon

Taxonomy: Petrophassa rufipennis Collett, 1898, South Alligator River, Northern Territory.
Genus belongs to the large radiation of Australian bronzewings, which also includes the genera Phaps, Ocyphaps and Geophaps and, more distantly, Henicophaps and Chalcophaps. Present species forms superspecies with P. albipennis. Monotypic.

Distribution: Western escarpment of Arnhem Land (N Northern Territory), from Katherine N to Oenpelli, and E to headwaters of Mann R, East Alligator R and Goomadeer R; rarely further E to Maningrida.