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THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA 
PLATE III 
BIRDS OF THE BRUSHES AND BIG SCRUBS 
1. Rose-crowned Pigeon Ptilinopus ewingi Gould 
Ptxl-iri-o-pus— Gk, p til on, feather; Gk, pus (pons), podos, foot: ewingi — 
Rev. T. J. Ewing, Tasmanian naturalist and friend of John Gould. 
Distribution. —North-western Australia (Kimberley) to Northern 
Territory; also occurs in Flores and Timor. 
Notes. —Usually in pairs or flocks, frequenting the fruit and berry¬ 
bearing trees of the coastal brushes and scrubs. Similar in habits to the 
Red-crowned Pigeon. 
Nest. —A slightly built platform, about 2J inches in diameter, com¬ 
posed of small sticks; placed in the branches of a tree up to 8 feet or 
more from the ground. 
Eq9 * —Pure white. Breeding-season: October to February. 
2. Purple-crowned Pigeon Ptilinopus superbus Temminck 
su-perV-us — L., superbus, handsome. 
Distribution. —Eastern Australia, accidental to Tasmania; also occurs 
in the Molucca Islands and New Guinea. 
Notes. Also called Superb Fruit-pigeon. Usually in pairs or flocks, 
frequenting the brushes and big scrubs, chiefly of the coastal districts. 
Similar in habits and food to the Red-crowned Pigeon. Its call-note is a 
gruff succession of “ooms” uttered slowly. 
Nest.- A platform about 3 inches in diameter, composed of a few 
twigs ; built in a small tree on a low horizontal fork at a height up to 
10 feet from the ground. Usually situated in open forest at the ectee 
of scrub. 
^993/ Usually one, white, with a faint creamy tinge. Breeding- 
season: October to February. 
o. Red-crowned Pigeon Ptilinopus regina Swainson 
re-gl-na —L., regina, queen. 
Distribution.— Eastern Australia, as far south as the Bellinger River; 
also occurs in New Guinea and the islands of Torres Strait. 
tt N°tes .—.Also called Swainson’s Fruit-pigeon and Pink-headed Dove. 
Usually in pairs or flocks, frequenting the brushes and big scrubs of the 
coastal districts as well as forests and mangroves. It is a migratory 
