WONG A- WONG A. 263 



Columba armillaria Temminck et Knip, Les Pigeons, Vol. II., p. 13, pi. 6, 1809 : New South 



Wales. 



Columba goadgang Temminck, Les Pigeons et Gall., Vol. I., p. 369, June llth, 1813 : New 



South Wales. 



" Colurriba" jamieson Quoy et Gaimard, Voy. de 1'Uranie et Physic., Zool., p. 123 note, Aug. 



28th, 1824 : New South Wales. 



Leucosareia melanoleuca minor Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 54, April 7th, 



1916 : North Queensland. 



DISTRIBUTION. Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria. 



Adult male. General colour above slate-grey, including the entire back, wings, 

 and middle tail-feathers ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, the 

 latter with narrow white margins on a portion of the inner webs ; the four outer 

 tail-feathers tipped with white ; crown of the head and a horseshoe band on breast 

 and abdomen white ; cheeks and throat grey ; fore-neck and a band on each side of 

 breast dark slate-grey, like the upper-surface ; some of the feathers on the abdomen, 

 sides of body, and flanks have elongated black marks or round spots of black on the 

 middle of the feathers ; under tail- coverts brown, with whitish margins ; bill 

 black, base pink ; iris brown, orbits red ; tarsi and feet pink. Total length 430 mm. ; 

 culmen 31, \\ing 214, tail 157, tarsus 40. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male in the colour of the plumage but with 

 smaller measurements. 



Immature male. Differs from the adult male in having the outer webs of the 

 secondary-quills shaded with brown. 



Nest. Very frail in structure, composed of sticks or twigs placed on a hori- 

 zontal branch of a tree at a height of from ten to twenty feet above the ground, 

 in scrub or forest. 



Eggs. Clutch, two ; glossy, smooth and pure white ; axis 38 mm., diameter 26. 



Breeding -season. October to January. Two broods are reared in a season. 



Distribution and forms. Restricted to Eastern Australia from North Queens- 

 land to Victoria. A northern and southern race can be admitted, the former L. m. 

 minor Mathews being smaller than the typical L. m. melanoleuca (Latham) from 

 New South Wales, Victoria and South Queensland, and occurring only in North 

 Queensland. 



FAMILY TRERONID^E. 



This includes the Fruit Pigeons, which superficially seem a well-defined group, 

 but which Garrod by means of his " characters " split up somewhat peculiarly. If 

 there be any reason in his facts it is certainly not seen at the first glance, and Garrod 

 himself seemed doubtful of his associations. As noted above, the group needs careful 

 study as to its osteology and anatomy by someone who is not obsessed by the value 

 of insignificant items, and who can deal with facts in a broad sense, allowing for 

 variation, convergence, degeneracy, etc. The present groupings must be regarded 

 as purely of a temporary nature. 



Genus PTILINOPUS. 



Ptilinopus Swainson, Zool. Journ., Vol. I., p. 473, Jan. 1825. Type (by monotypy) : Ptilino- 



pus regina Swainson. 



Lamprotreron Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris, Vol. XXXIX., p. 876, Nov. 



1854. Type (by original designation) : Columba superba Temminck et Knip. 



Eeginopus Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 4, p. 73, Dec. 29th, 1913. Type (by 



monotypy) : Ptilinopus ewingii Gould. 



Smallest Fruit Pigeons with small bills, long wings, long tail and small feathered 

 legs and long toes. The bill is short and slender, the culmen ridge scarcely differen- 

 tiated from the dertrum which is not swollen but rather strongly deflected, the nasal 



