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any time through the day from the mountains to the coast, and 
back.” Mr. Boyd writes, “ The Top-knot Pigeons have been very 
plentiful this season; they have not been so numerous since 
1882.” 
This season has not been a better one than the last for the 
berry-bearing trees that provide the food for these pigeons, yet 
in both colonies has the Top-knot Pigeon been more than usually 
abundant this year.* 
Halt. South Coast of New Guinea, Islands of Torres Straits, 
and oir the Coast of North-eastern Queensland, Northern and 
North-eastern Queensland. 
MACROPYGIA PITASTANELLA, TemmincL 
The Large-tailed Pigeon. 
Gould, llandbh. Bds. Anstr., Vol. ii., sp. 475, p. 118. 
The Large-tailed Pigeon is freely dispersed throughout the rich 
brushes of the Eastern coast of Australia, from Cape York to the 
southern boundary of New South Wales. Young birds were 
obtained by Messrs. Cairn and Grant in the scrubs that clothe 
the sides of the Mulgrave and Russell Rivers in tropical Queens¬ 
land during November 1887, and Meston in his Report of the 
Scientific Expedition to Bellenden-Ker Range in the near vicinity 
records finding it breeding during February 1889, on the South 
Peak of the range at an elevation of from 4,000 to 5,000 feet, in 
the tops of Tree-ferns, each nest containing a single egg or young 
pigeon. 
For an opportunity of examining an egg of this species I am 
indebted to Mr. W. J. Grime, who, in the brushes of the Tweed 
River, found a nest placed on a mass of “ Lawyer Vines,” 
(Calamus australis), about six feet from the ground from which 
he flushed the bird; the nest was a very primitive structure, 
being simply a few sticks placed crosswise, without any cavity, 
* North, Proc. Linn. Soc„ N.S.W., Vol. v.. Second Series, (1890) p. 880. 
