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worms.* Eggs have been collected in Labuan and at Akyab in 

 Burma, t 



Eos rubra, Gm. (Long-tailed Scarlet Lory). 



Psittacus borneus, Gmelin, ' Systema Naturae,' i. p. 318 (1788). 



Eos rubra, Wagler, Mon. Psitt. p. 558 (1832). 



Ceram, Buru, Amboyna, Haruka, Banda, Ceram Laut, Goram, 

 Matabela Islands, Kur, Ke Islands (Ke Dulan). 



Food. — Seeds, insects, and nectar. 



Ptilopus xanthogaster, Wagl. (Orange-breasted Fruit Pigeon). 



Columba xanthogaster, Wagler, Systema Avium, Columbae, 

 sp. 29 (1827). 



Banda, Kur, Ke Islands, Timor Laut, Dama, Letti, Lesser 

 Sunda Islands, Ladrone Islands (G. R. Gray). 



Food. — Probably wild fruits. 



Carpophaga concinna, Wall. (Mace-eating Pigeon). 



Carpophaga concinna, Wallace, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (2), 

 xx. p. 473 (1857) ; 'Ibis,' 1865, p. 383, No. 52. 



Aru Islands, South Celebes, Sangir, Ceram, Buru, Amboyna, 

 Banda, Ceram Laut, Goram, Panjang, Matabela Islands, Kur, Ke 

 Islands (Ke Dulan), Tenimber Islands, Dama (Eiedel), Lesser 

 Sunda Islands. 



Food. — Fruit. 



Chalcophaps chrysochlora, Wagl. (Little Green Pigeon). 



Columba javanica, Temm., ' Pigeons,' 1811, pi. 26. 



Columba chrysochlora, Wagl., Syst. Av., Columbse, 1827, sp. 79. 



Timor, Letti, Wetter, Banda, Kur, Ke Islands, Timor Laut, 

 South-eastern New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Northern to Eastern 

 Australia, Lord Howe Island, New Caledonia (Nu,Port de France), 

 Lifu, Mare, Aneiteum, Aniwa, Erromango, Tanna, Vate, Ambrym, 

 Mallicolo, St. Bartholomew, Santo, Api. 



Food. — Seeds and berries. The eggs of the Little Green 

 Pigeon have been described.]: 



'•- A. B. Meyer in ' Zeitschr. fiir die gesammte Ornith. 1884,' p. 276. 

 Schlegel, ' Vogels Ned. Ind. de Ijsvogels,' p. 27. 



f ' Catalogue of Birds' Eggs in British Museum,' iii. p. 41. 



I Campbell, ' Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds,' p. 679. ' Catalogue 

 of Birds' Eggs in British Museum,' i. p. 103, 



