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paler cream or cafe-au-lait. In fact, they are miniatures of the eggs of 

 Macropygia tusalia, and like them are of two types and sizes, the single eggs 

 being bigger than those laid in pairs, and also, as a rule, less true ellipses. 



The Little Malay Cuckoo-Dove is a bird of high elevations and 

 seems never, even during the cold weather, to descend to the level of 

 the plains, or, indeed, much below 2,000 ft. Robinson and Cook found 

 it at about and over 4,000 ft., and my men reported it as very rare 

 below this height. 



Hume states that in the Earen Hills about 3,000 ft. is its normal 

 altitude. 



There is practically nothing on record about this little bird beyond 

 what is noted by Davison, in Stray Feathers, to the following effect r 

 " This bird is not very rare, but is still most difficult to obtain. It is 

 extremely shy, and keeps to the densest parts of the forests ; on 

 Mooleyet in the mornings and evenings I used to hear numbers calling. 

 The note is very peculiar, and sounds like Oo-who-who-oo, repeated 

 quickly several times. The birds keep in small parties of four or six. 

 They live on small fruits, and the stomachs of some I examined con- 

 tained what looked to me like buds or tender imdeveloped leaves." 



