APPENDIX. 373 



APLONIS FUSCUS, GmM. 



Fuscous Aplonis. 



According to Mr. Saunders, the nidification of this bird is 

 entirely different from that of the allied genus Cahrnis of the 

 Australian continent, the birds resorting to the hollow branches of 

 trees to construct their nests, several were found with young birds, 

 but only one contained eggs. In every instance these nests were 

 built of dried grasses, and placed in a hollow at the end of a 

 branch. The eggs are usually four in number for a sitting, and vary 

 somewhat in form, even in the same set ; two eggs of one set are 

 swollen ovals being thickest at the centre, and slightly pointed 

 towards each end, the other two are long ovals, slightly tapering 

 at one end only ; in colour they are of a pale bluish-green, freckled 

 with markings of a reddish- and wood-brown tint, equally disposed 

 over the surface of the shell, some of the markings are very 

 indistinct. Length (A) 1-07 x 0-78 inch ; (B) 1-06 x 0-76 inch, 

 (thick ovals); (C) M4 x 0-76 inch ; (D) 1-12 x 0-75 inch. 



Hah. Lord Howe, and Norfolk Islands. 



CHALCOPHAPS CHRYSOCHLORA, Wagler. 

 Little Green Pigeon. 

 Gould, Exvndhh. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 459, p. 118. 



The nest of this bird is composed of a few thin twigs placed 

 crosswise on the horizontal branch of a tree, not far from the 

 ground. The eggs are two in number, oval in form, of a light 

 creamy-white colour, and give an average measurement of 1 -47 x 

 0'8 inch. This bird previously plentiful upon the island, has 

 already become very scarce, and will probably with other sgecies, 

 soon be exterminated by the islanders. 



Hab. Lord Howe Island and Australia. 



