STICTOPELIA. 
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Genus STICTOPELIA, Rciclienbach. 
STICTOPELIA CUNEATA, Latham. 
Little Turtle-dove. 
Gould , Ilandbk. Bds. Ausl., Yol. ii., sp. 474, p. 146. 
“The nest is similar to that of the last species, Mr. JohnS. 
Ramsay, found this bird breeding in numbers at Cardington 
Station, on the Bell River, the nests were placed on the flattened 
top of the vine stakes in the vineyard, the birds were remarkably 
tame and would allow themselves to be almost taken with the 
hand. Tho eggs were invariably two in number, oval, pure white, 
length 07 x 055 inch ; they breed during September and the two 
months following. JDobr. Mus.” ( Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., Yol. 
vii., p. 54.) 
I fab. Derby, N.W. Australia, Port Darwin and Port Essington, 
Gulf of Carpentaria, Dawson River, New South Wales, Interior, 
Victoria and South Australia, West and South-West Australia. 
(Ramsay.) 
Family MEGAPQDIDiE. 
Genus TALEGALLUS, Lesson. 
TALEGALLUS LATHAMI, Gray. 
Wattled Talegallus. 
Gould, Ilandbk. Bds. Amt., Vol. ii., sp. 476, p. 150. 
Dr. Ramsay writing in 1876 on the birds of north-eastern 
Queensland, remarks as follows :— 
“ However plentiful this species may have been formerly in the 
Rockingham Bay district, it is now very scarce, only one having 
been obtained during my visit. They are still plentiful in the 
New South Wales scrubs. I found that two or more females 
visited the same mound to lay their eggs in ; and when this is the 
case the mound is often twice as largo as an ordinary mound. It 
seems probable that several individuals assist in scratching the 
mound together, when a space often fifty yards in diameter (on 
