MYRISTICIVOKA, 269 



Order RASORES. 



Family COLUMBID^. 



Genus LAMPEOTEEEON, Bonaparte. 



LAMPROTRERON SUPERBUS, Temminck 

 Superb Frtdt-Pigeon. 

 Gould, Handlk. Birds Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 453, p. 108. 



The egg of this fruit-dove is remarkably small in comparison 

 with eggs of other pigeons of a smaller size. I have received 

 specimens taken by Mr. Boyer-Bower in the brushes near Cairns, 

 Queensland. Eggs white, oval, rather elongated and pointed, 1 -2 

 X 0'83 inch ; two only are laid for a sitting." (Ramsay, P.L.S., 

 N.S.W., 2nd Series, Vol. i., p. 1151.) 



Hah. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Cape York, Rockingham 

 Bay, Port Denison, Tasmania, South Coast New Guinea. {Ramsay.) 



Genus MYEISTICIVOEA, Eeichenbach. 



MYRISTICIVORA SPILORRHOA, G. R. Gray. 

 White Nutmeg-Pigeon. 

 Gould, Randbh. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 457, p. 114. 



" During the months from October until the end of April, when 

 they leave, this species is very numerous all over the Rockingham 

 Bay district. Early in the morning, as soon as it is light enough 

 they leave their roosting-places in large flocks, and betake 

 themselves to their feeding-grounds, dispersing over the scrubs 

 and among the various species of Acmena and Jamhosa which line 

 the margins of the Herbert River. Towards evening they assemble 

 and leaving the feeding-grounds return to roost on the mangrove 

 islands in Hinchinbrook Channel, and around the coast and mouths 

 of the rivers, flying a distance of often forty miles night and 

 morning. The tops of the mangroves on which they roost are 



