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COLUMBID.®. 
very frail structure of twigs placed in a low tree. The nest 
contained two eggs, one of which he sent me for description, is in 
form a nearly perfect oval, creamy-white, the texture of the shell 
being fine and smooth to the touch. Long axis 1 -05 inch, short 
axis 0'S inch. 
Hob. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, 
Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New 
South Wales. (Ramsay.) 
Genus LEUCOSARCIA, Gould. 
LEUCOSARCIA PICATA, Latham. 
W onga-wonga. 
Gould, Ilandbk. Bdn. Amt., Yol. ii., sp. 4G1, p. 120. 
This bird is found in the thickly wooded country that skirts 
the eastern and south-eastern portions of the continent of 
Australia, likewise on the mountain ranges farther inland ; it is 
particularly plentiful in the neighbourhood of Eden, New South 
Wales, and many birds are trapped and sent up to Sydney every 
season, and during the winter months they may be seen alive in the 
markets, or killed and exposed for sale in the poulterers shops. 
The nest is rather a frail structure of sticks and twigs placed 
crosswise on the horizontal branch of a tree about ten feet from 
the ground. Eggs two in number for a sitting, pure white. Two 
specimens in the Australian Museum Collection, measure as 
follows :—length (A) 1 - 5 x IT inch; (B) 1 "48 x IT inch. 
Two eggs in Dr. James C. Cox’s Collection, taken at Mulgoa, 
on the 12th of January 1875, measure as follows : — length (A) 
1-41 x 1-05 inch; (B) 1T3 x 1T5 inch. 
Two in the Dobroyde Collection, taken at Toowoomba, 
Queensland, in October 1873, give the following measurements 
length (A) 1‘45 x l - 08 inch; (B) 1 '48 x 1 09 inch. 
