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and "piccole chiocciolette " (d'Albertis,^de Salvadori, 1882). Of the nesting habits 

 nothing is known except that the season is a long one. D'Albertis (Salvadori, 1882) 

 in New Guinea took a female with a mature egg in April, but in another district 

 found the species nesting in September. According to Ramsay (1879) the nests in 

 southeastern New Guinea are placed in the hollows of trees. 



So far as I have been able to discover, this species has not been kept in any of the 

 large public collections of Europe or America, but it was brought alive to England 

 from Celebes by Mr. Jamrach in 1888 (Hubbard, 1907). 



