The Queensland Naturalist. 
May, 1924 
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over seven miles away. The birds would come every 
evenin^Li*, sometimes in small flocks or in pairs, and settle 
on the "round away from the Avater, Avhich they cau- 
tiously apin'oaehed, and finally appeared to rush. It was 
tJu* signal for the guns, and seldom less than five or six 
Avere shot, a welcomie change from station diet, as they 
are excellent eating. Tn the day time these pigeons were 
feeding on the fallen seeds of various trees and small 
})lants on the flat to]) of ATt. Kent, but Avere A'ery Avary 
and difficult of approach. The AU'‘getation of tin; moun- 
tain to]) Avas very different to the forested plain beloAV. 
and consisted, of wattles and other leguminous plants, 
that of the plain bastard box mostly. T have never knoAvn 
th(‘ bronxe-wing as a bird of the tro])ical jungle (se.rnbs 
but alAAUiys a denizen of the thickets of wattle and other 
trees, and haA^e seen and shot it most times of the year, 
summer and Avinter. 
The beauty of this bird is well sIioavu in the radiaiit 
si)lendour of the scapular featlnuAs of a specimen from the 
Banana district of Central QiuMuisland, which Mrs. Tlob- 
ler retricA'ed from a eat. Tin* coppery or golden coppery 
sheen is unefpialled, and surely indicates a bird, prol>ab]y 
male, in most sui>erb plumage. 
In recent years, during visits to the Jandowae dis- 
trict. on the Xorthern Doavus, in February and Novem- 
ber, December, about tAvo years ago, T kept a good look- 
out for this pig(‘on, but did not see or hear it. The- 
barred-shouldered dove. hoAvever, Avas not rare, for T 
frequently saAv it. and AA'as rather snr])rised. for I Avas not 
then aAvare that it Avandered so far from the coastal dis- 
tricts. Avltere it is a very common bird. 
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