270 COLUMBIDJE. 



literally white with birds ; and, notwithstanding the disturbance 

 and havoc committed among them by shooting parties, they 

 continue to arrive until dark. They breed on these islands, 

 building little or no nest, a few sticks placed so as to prevent the 

 eggs from rolling away being considered sufficient." (Eamswy, 

 P.Z.S., 1875, p. 115.) 



Eggs oval in form, white. Two eggs in the Australian Museum 

 Collection presented by Mr. J. Macgillivray, and taken by him 

 on the 22nd of October 1860, on Hope Island, off the north coast 

 of Australia, measure as follows : — Length (A) 1 '64: x 1 -2 inch ; 

 (B) 1-65 X 1-2 inch. 



Dimensions of two eggs in the Macleayan Museum Collection, 

 taken at Cape Sydmouth, North-Eastern Queensland, in 1871 ; 

 length (A) 1-7 x 1-17 inch ; (B) 1-67 x 1-16 inch. A specimen 

 in the Dbbroyde Collection, measures 1'67 inch in length by 1'2 

 inch in breadth. 



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

 Bay, Port Denison. {Eainsay.) 



Genus MEGALOPKEPIA, Eeichenbach. 



i MEGALOPKEPIA ASSIMILIS, Gould. 



AUied Fruit-Pigeon. 

 Gould, Ilandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 455, p. 111. 



The Allied Fruit-Pigeon is universally dispersed over the Cape 

 York peninsula, and as far south as the neighbourhood of 

 Rockingham Bay. A nest of this species found at Cape York by 

 Mr. George Masters, on the 17th of September 1875, from which 

 the bird was flushed and procured, was simply a few dried sticks 

 placed cross-wise on the horizontal branch of a tree about eight 

 feet from the ground ; it contained two eggs, perfectly white, rather 

 elongated in form and pointed at the smaller ends, in a very 

 advanced state of incubation, An average specimen measures 



