MYRISTICIVORA. 
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Order R AS ORES. 
Family COLUMBID^. 
Genus LAMPROTRERON, Bonaparte. 
LAMPROTRERON SUPERBUS, Temminck. 
Superb Fruit-Pigeon. 
Gould, Ilandbk. Birds Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 453, p. 108. 
The egg of this fruit-dove is remarkably small in comparison 
with eggs of other pigeons of a smaller size. I have received 
specimens taken by Mr. Boyer-Bower in the brushes near Cairns, 
Queensland. Eggs white, oval, rather elongated and pointed, 1 '2 
x 0-83 inch ; two only are laid for a sitting.” (Ramsay, P.L.S., 
N.S.W., 2nd Series, Vol. i., p. 1151.) 
1lab. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Capo York, Rockingham 
Bay, Port Denison, Tasmania,South Coast New Guinea. (Ramsay.) 
Genus MYRISTICIVORA, Bcichenbach. 
MYRISTICIVORA SPILORRITOA, G. R. Gray. 
White Nutmeg-Pigeon. 
Gould, Ilandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 457, p. 114. 
“ During the months from October until the end of April, when 
they leave, this species is very numerous all over the Rockingham 
Bay district. Early in the morning, as soon as it is light enough 
they leave their roosting-places in largo flocks, and betake 
themselves to their feeding-grounds, dispersing over the scrubs 
and among the various species of Acmena and Jambosa which line 
the margins of the Herbert River. Towards evening they assemble 
and leaving the feeding-grounds return to roost on the mangrove 
islands in Iiinchinbrook Channel, and around the coast and mouths 
of the rivers, flying a distance of often forty miles night and 
morning. The tops of the mangroves on which they roost are 
