CHALCOPHAPS. 
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Q4 inch in length by 095 inch in breath. From the Macleayan 
Mus. Coll. (North, P.L.S., N.S. W., 2nd Series, Vol. ii., p. 410.) 
Hah. Cape York, Rockingham Bay. (Bamsay.) 
Genus LOPHOLAIMUS, G. R. Gray. 
LOPHOLAIMUS ANTARCTICUS, Shaw. 
Top-knot Pigeon. 
Gould, Handblc. Bds. Aust., Yol. ii., sp. 458, p. 116. 
The habitat of this bird is the rich brushes of the eastern coast 
of the continent of Australia, such as are to be found clothing the 
sides of the Richmond and Clarence Rivers in New South Wales, 
and Rockingham Bay in Queensland. An egg of this species 
taken by Mr. Theodore McLennan from the oviduct of a bird 
shot on the Bellinger River during the month of December, is 
quite wliite and rough to the touch, without any gloss, which may 
be accounted for by its being immature ; in form a long oval 
slightly pointed at the thinner end. Long diameter 1 •85 ; short 
diameter 1 '25 inches. 
Hah. Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay 
District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South 
Wales, Tasmania. (Ramsay ) 
Genus CHALCOPHAPS, Gould. 
CHALCOPHAPS CHRYSOCHLORA, Wagler. 
Little Green Pigeon. 
Gould, Handhk. Bds. Aust., Yol. ii., sp. 459, p. 118. 
Mr. George Barnard, of Coomooboolaroo, Duaringa, Queensland, 
informs me that a nest of this species taken by one of his black 
boys on the Dawson River, on the 6th of February 1887, was a 
