642 THE BIRDS OF LORD HOWE AND NORFOLK ISLANDS, 



COLUMBIFORMES. 



30a(M). I.Hemiphaga spadicea Latham. 



JIah. — Norfolk Island (extinct). 



For figure and references, see Rothschild's " Extinct Birds," 

 p.161, pl.xxi., 1907. 



36(M). 2.CHALC0PHAPS CHRYSOCHLORA Gould, 



Little Green Pigeon ; Pigeon (Lord Howe Island); Dove 

 (Norfolk Island). 



Chalco2:>haps chrysochlora, Ramsay, p. 3 8; North, * Nests and 

 Eggs,' p. 373; North, ' Lord How^e Island,' p.45; Etheridge, 'Lord 

 Howe Island,' p. 10; Campbell, p. 679. 



ffab. — Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. (Northern and 

 Eastern Australia, Molucca Is., New Hebrides, Solomon Is.). 



The beautiful Little Green Pigeon is very plentiful in both 

 Islands; and is so tame, at Lord Howe Island, that it can easily 

 be snared by a noose at the end of a stick. At Norfolk Island 

 it is protected against indiscriminate destruction, exception being 

 made in favour of invalids who may require some such delicate 

 morsel as a roasted pigeon to tempt the appetite ! 



Its nest is generally placed amongst vines, or on the horizontal 

 branch of a tree from five to ten feet from the ground. It is 

 constructed of the spiral tendrils of dead vines and thin twigs, 

 forming a slight platform, through the interstices of which the 

 creamy-white eggs can be plainly seen from beneath. 



At Lord Howe Island I found a nest on the 5th of October, 

 1907, containing two highly incubated eggs; and on the 18th of 

 the same month, I found two nests containing young birds about 

 a week old. Fresh eggs w^ere found at Norfolk Island in October 

 and November, 1908, but the general breeding season appears to 

 be during August and September. 



Archdeacon Comins inforuied me that this pigeon is not 

 indigenous to Norfolk Island, but was introduced from the 

 Solomon Islands, some years ago, by the late Archdeacon Palmer 

 <jf the Melanesian Mission. From the fact that it is common to 



