276 COLUMBIDiB. 



informs me that in Queensland he has taken the eggs in nearly 

 every month of the year. 



Haib. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 

 Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New 

 South Wales, Interior, South Australia. (Ramsay.) 



GEOPHAPS BM.lTB.lI,JardineandSelby. 

 Smith's Partridge Bronze-iiring. 

 Gould, Sandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 466, p. 133. 



" This bird incubates from August to October, making no nest 

 but merely smoothing down a small part of a clump of grass and 

 forming a slight hollow, in which it deposits two eggs, which are 

 greenish-white, one inch and a-quarter long by seven-eights of an 

 inch in breadth." (Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust, Vol. ii., p. 133.) 



Hab. Derby, N". W. Australia, Port Darwin and Port Essington, 

 Gulf of Carpentaria. ( Ramsay . ) 



^ • Genus LOPHOPHAPS, Eeichenbach. 



LOPHOPHAPS LEUCOGASTER, Gould. 

 Plumed Bronze-wing. 

 Gould, Suppl. Bds. Aust., pi. 69. 



" Sub-Inspector Armit, late of the Native Police, Queensland, 

 obtained specimens in the neighbourhood of Normanton, Gulf 

 District, and forwarded a set of the eggs. The nest is placed on 

 the ground, and, like that of Geophaps scripta, consists merely of 

 a few blades of grass lining a slight hollow on the lee side of a 

 tussock or tuft pf grass. Eggs four in number for a sitting ; of a 

 pale cream colour. Length 1-05 x 0-8 inch. Mr. T. H. Boyer- 

 Bower collected a fine series of this rare bird, in the vicinity of 

 Derby, North Western Australia." (Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., 

 2nd Series, Vol, i., p. 1095.) 



