PLUMED PIGEON. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male, but slightly smaller. Total length, 223 mm. ; 
culmen, 19 ; wing, 105. 
Immature female. Differs from the adult female in the absence of the metallic wing- 
speculum. 
Nest. “ A shght depression in the ground, sheltered by herbage — spinifex etc.” 
(Campbell). 
Eggs. “ Clutch, two ; elliptical in shape ; texture of shell fine ; surface glossy ; colour, 
light creamy- white. Dimensions in inches, 1.0 by .79 ” (Campbell). 
Breeding season. July to September (Kamsay) ; October (MacGiUivray). 
Mr. Pogers, writing from near Wyndham, in North-west Australia, says : 
“ These birds first appeared here on October 28th (1908) when a large flock 
came to drink at a pool near my house. They frequent stony country and 
only leave it when they come to drink, which is usually about 9 o’clock in the 
morning. Sometimes, however, they wiU remain near the water till almost 
4 o’clock, going down to drink several times between these hours. Some birds 
spend the hotter part of the day under a shady tree but always prefer a stone 
to stand on, others wiU stand motionless on a stone, in the sun when one can 
feel the ground hot even through thick boots. 
“ When going to water, if the distance be short, they walk, but if the 
distance be great they run a little way, then fly about 150 yards, then run again, 
and so on.” 
Mr. Elsey,* writing from the Victoria River, in Northern Territory, 
says : “ This lovely little bird was abundant on the Victoria, especially about 
rocky holes and exposed hot gullies and on the hot sandy beds of the broad 
rivers of the Gulf, where it was strutting about in the full glare of the sun, with 
its crest erect. I have shot six'or eight at a time on those rivers.” 
The bird figured and described is a male, collected on Parry’s Creek, North- 
west Australia, on November 5th, 1908, by Mr. J. P. Rogers. 
* Gould’s Hand. B, Austr. II., p. 136 (1865). 
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