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by the Tawnj'-shuuldeied Podar^^iis, on a horizontal limb of tlie same Acacia, forty-one feet from 

 the tiround, and contained eggs on 21st October. This nest was afterwards utilised by the 

 Yellow-necUed Mangrove Bittern, three species using the same nest in the season. The birds 

 then built on a mistletoe in an .Acacia twenty-five yards away, the nest being sixty feet fiom the 

 ground, and was found on the 13th November, the eggs being partly incubated." 



From Copmanhurst, New Soutli Wales, Mr. George Savidge wrote: — "The Wonga 



A FOHMKK HAUNT OF TIIK WONriA PIGKON AT OUUIMHAH, NEW SOUTH WALES. 



I'igeon ( Lcncosarcia picatii) is to be found in all parts of t!ie Clarence Kiver District, inhabiting 

 alike the dense scrubs as well as the open forest country about Copmanhurst, and its 

 loud, clear high note, ' coo, coo, coo,' repeated many times, may often be heard. I have never 

 observed it in tlocks like some Pigeons, but where food is plentiful birds gather together, and 

 may then be found fairly numerous ; when disturbed they rise from the .ground quickly, making 

 a loud flapping noise with their win.L;s for a short distance, then sail along noiselessly for 



