KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 52. N:O |7. 35 
Besides S:t George's ranges this species was also met with at Sunday Island, 
among the rocks. There, as in the former place, it was very rare. 
Lophophaps ferruginea GouLp. 
Math. handl. n:r 44. I ad. Mowla Downs, Kimb. 12/12 1910. - Moult. in wing. 
Ecological. — This peculiar dove occurred on the mountains at Mowla Downs. 
It appeared here and there in very scattered small ecrowds. Its life and appearance 
reminded of that of a Gallinae. When walking on the hard red sandstone I suddenly 
heard a strong cracking loud and saw a crowd of these doves upon their wings. 
The redbrown plumage of the bird was on excellent protection in this nature. When 
the birds alighted, they were hardly to be seen. They pressed against the ground 
as our partridges. Their short, round body, curved wings and swift movements, 
when running about were also more like that of a partridge than that of a dove. 
This form, which as to say represents Galliformes in Columbiformes, is apparently 
very well adapted to the red sandstone ground. It never keeps in trees but only 
on the ground and is confined to the steril hot mountains. 
The shot specimen had in its crop hard bean-like grains. 
Lophophaps plumifera GouLp. 
Math. handl. n:r 45. 9 ad. S:t George's range, Fitzroy r. ?9/2 1911. 
Very rare at S:t George's ranges in the neighbourhood of Fitzroy river 
(WIDELL). 
Ocyphaps lophotes TeEMmm. 
Math. handl. n:r 46. 4 SS ad., 2 22 Nooncanbah, Fitzroy r. ?2/:2 1910, !5/; 1911. Moult. 
Moulting. — All these specimens are in a somewhat similar moult, which in- 
cludes the whole body, the wings and the tail. In one specimen the second of the 
secondaries in each wing, in two other ones the first and the second primaries in 
each wing are growing out (the other old ones). Among the tail-feathers some are 
also new. The pins most numerous on head and neck. 
The crested pigeon was seen in pairs or in small parties in the neighbourhood 
of Mowla Downs and at Fitzroy (Nooncanbah), but it was not common. At Mowla 
Downs I have found its nest. It was a flat nest, built of twigs in the thickest 
leafage of an Eucalyptus. The pigeon had eaten berries. 
