PARTRIDGE-PIGEON. 
From Mr. Newman’s* notes made on this species in captivity I gather the 
following : “ It would be hard to jfind another case amongst birds of one group 
approaching another so closely in superficial details as the genus Geophaps 
does the Partridges. Yet in no point do they really differ from the more typical 
Pigeons. I have noticed these Pigeons have a Partridge-like habit of roosting 
in a group, their heads pointing in different directions, their tails coming closely 
together in the centre. They never dust, like gallinaceous birds, and I have 
never seen them bathe, but during a shower they will lie on their side with one 
wing raised like other pigeons. 
“ The chicks have an egg tooth on both mandibles. When between six 
and seven weeks old, a general moult took place, and at two months old they 
were fully grown.” 
The bird figured is a female and was collected in Queensland in Novem.ber, 
1888 . 
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* Avicultural Mag., October, 1908. 
