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534 z 
531 I 
54m 2 
542 2 
543 2 
537 I 
535 r 
THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION, 
WHITE-BELLIED PLUMED PIGEON, 
Lophophaps leucogaster, Gould. 
Taken on the banks of the Nicholson River, North-west Queensland, by C. Woodlands, on 14th 
October, 1898. Set of 2 eggs. Specimen A. measures in inches = 1°09 x 0°87. 
PURPLE-CROWNED FRUIT PIGEON, 
Ptilopus superbus, Temminck. 
Taken by R. Hislop, in the Bloomfield River district, North Queensland, during October, 1894. 
Set of 1 egg. 
RED-CROWNED FRUIT PIGEON, 
Puilopus swainsont, Gould. 
Taken by Isaac Foster and Sid. W. Jackson, near my camp in the scrub at Booyong, Richmond 
River district, N.S.W., on roth November, 1899. Nest was a very frail structure, and was placed in an 
entanglement of small vines at an altitude of 20 feet, and was difficult to approach without knocking 
the egg out of the flat nest. A single egg is the usual complement for a sitting. This handsome 
pigeon has a very mournful-like note, which we heard from daylight till dark, and it became quite 
monotonous to us. The birds were very plentiful in the Booyong and Binna Burra scrubs, in 1899, 
and we found several nests and eggs. They are familiarly known in the Richmond River scrubs as 
the Pink-headed Dove. The egg is pure white. This egg measures = 1°20 x 0°87. 
BARRED-SHOULDERED DOVE, 
Geopelta humeralis, Temminck. 
Taken at South Grafton, N.S.W., by Frank and Sid. W. Jackson, on 16th October, 1897. Nest 
was built in a tall Iron-bark Eucalypt (Zucalyptus stderophiota), in a thick upright fork, at an altitude 
of 50 feet. Set of 2 eggs. Specimen A. measures in inches = 1°08 x 0°88. 
GROUND DOVE, 
Geopelia tranguilla, Gould. 
Taken in Alipou scrub, South Grafton, Clarence River, N.S.W., by Frank Jackson and Sid. W. 
Jackson, on 16th December, 1894. Nest was built, if it can be called a nest, in a swamp Ti Tree 
(Melaleuca), at the edge of the scrub, at an altitude of 28 feet from the ground. Its construction 
consisted of about 30 short pieces of grass, laid in a flat fork of the latter paper bark tree. Set of 2 eggs. 
Specimen A. measures = 0°87 x 0°63. Specimen B. measures = 0°88 x 0°65. 
LITTLE DOVE, 
Geopelia cuneata, Latham. 
Taken on the banks of the Fitzroy River, North-west Australia, by G. A. Keartland, on 13th March, 
1898. These are the smallest eggs of the Co/umée order in Australia. Set of 2 eggs. Specimen A. 
measures = o'81 x 0O'60. 
NUTMEG PIGEON, 
Myristicivora spilorrhoa, G. R. Gray. 
Taken by E. H. Webb, on Frankland Islands, Russell River, Queensland, on 4th January, 1905. 
Set of one egg. It measures = 1°78 x 1°23 
PURPLE-BREASTED FRUIT PIGEON, 
Megaloprepia magnifica, Temminck. 
We found the nest and egg of this beautiful pigeon near our camp at Booyong, Richmond River 
scrubs, N.S.W., on roth December, 1899. The nest was placed at the top of a tall leaning scrub 
Cherry tree (Elwodendron australe) in the scrub, and was very difficult to negotiate owing to the labyrinth 
of treacherous Lawyer vines (Calamus australis) which enveloped it. Taken by W. McEnerny and Sid. 
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