THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
or young ones. There were never more than two eggs, which are about one- 
third smaller than those of Ocyphaps lophotes, and are of a dull, creamy-white 
colour, with rather rough surface and lacking the usual glossy surface of pigeons’ 
eggs. I was informed that these birds have never been found further south 
than Crown Point, on the Finke River.” 
I have never seen a specimen of Lophophaps from the Gulf of Carpentaria, 
but both Dr. Ramsay and Mr. North consider it to be L. leucogaster. 
A specimen of L. leucogaster in the British Museum, collected by the Horn 
Scientific Expedition, has a wing measurement of 119 mm., and a specimen of 
L. plumifera, collected by Mr. Elsey on the Victoria River, Northern Territory, 
has a wing measurement of 103 mm. 
The bird described is a male, collected at Arltonga, in Central Australia, 
on April 22nd, 1907, and was given me by Mr. Edwin Ashby, of Adelaide. 
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