270 
COLUMBID.®. 
literally white with birds; and, notwithstanding the disturbance 
and havoc committed among them by shooting parties, they 
continue to arrivo until dark. They breed on these islands, 
building little or no nest, a few sticks placed so as to prevent the 
eggs from rolling away being considered sufficient.” (Ramsay, 
P.Z.S., 1875, p. 115.) 
Eggs oval in form, white. Two eggs in the Australian Museum 
Collection presented by Mr. J. Macgillivray, and taken by him 
on the 22nd of October 1860, on Hope Island, off the north coast 
of Australia, measure as follows :—Length (A) 1-64 x 1-2 inch ; 
(B) 1 -65 x 1*2 inch. 
Dimensions of two eggs in the Macleayan Museum Collection, 
taken at Cape Sydmouth, North-Eastern Queensland, in 1871; 
length (A) 1-7 x 1T7 inch; (B) 1'67 x 1T6 inch. A specimen 
in the Dobroyde Collection, measures P67 inch in length by 1-2 
inch in breadth. 
I lab. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Capo York, Rockingham 
Bay, Port Denison. (Ramsay.) 
Genus MEGALOPREPIA, Rcichcnbacli. 
MEGALOPREPIA ASSIMILIS, Gould. 
Allied Fruit-Pigeon. 
Gould, llandbk. Bds. Ausl., Yol. ii., sp. 455, p. ill. 
The Allied Fruit-Pigeon is universally dispersed over the Cape 
York peninsula, and as far south as the neighbourhood of 
Rockingham Bay. A nest of this species found at Cape York by 
Mr. George Masters, on the 17th of September 1875, from which 
the bird was flushed and procured, was simply a few dried sticks 
placed cross-wise on the horizontal branch of a tree about eight 
feet from the ground; it contained two eggs, perfectly white, rather 
elongated in form and pointed at the smaller ends, in a very 
advanced state of incubation. An average specimen measures 
