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KING HORN, Notes on Two Pigeons 
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varieties are not uncomriion. The “Gill-bird" (Wattled Honey- 
eater), Friar Bird, and the (so called) “Morepork” (Frog- 
mouth) complete my list of the larger birds observed about 
garden and grounds, while to the smaller species may be added 
Tit-Warblers of two varieties, including the Yellow-tailed 
or “Tomtit,” both species of which sometimes nest in the pines. 
Though not “garden birds,” a flock of Straw-necked Ibises on 
one occasion searched assiduously for caterpillars in a paddock 
adjoining the enclosure haunted by the birds previously 
mentioned. 
Notes on Two Pigeons of the Genus 
Globicera 
By J. R. KINGHORN, C.M.Z.S., Zoologist, Australian Museum, 
(Contributed front the Australian Museum.) 
Though the occurrence of tzvo species of Globicera in Aus¬ 
tralia is usually doubted, there seems to be little reason why one 
of them should not inhabit the dense tropical forests of Cape 
York Peninsula. As I have received numerous enquiries from 
time to time in respect to the distribution and recording of speci¬ 
mens, I decided that a compilation of my various notes, relating 
to the history of each species, would form a short paper which 
might be of some value to those ornithologists who may care to 
go further into the matter, and so place the questions beyond 
doubt. 
THE GREY-HEADED PIGEON. 
The first specimen of the Grey-headed Pigeon ( Globicera 
pacifica) came from the Friendly Islands, and was described 
by Latham in his Synopsis of Birds, Vol. II., p. 633, 1783, under 
the name of Ferruginous-vented Pigeon. Six years later, Gmelin 
described the same bird in his Systerna Naturae , Viol. I., p. 777, 
1789, placing it in the genus Columba, under the name of Col- 
umba pacifica. Bonnaterre, in Encycl. Meth. I., p. 241, 1791, 
writing upon the bird under the same name, gave a description, 
a reference to Latham's work, and the locality—Friendly Islands. 
For some years following its discovery, descriptions were so 
meagre that authors, finding Pigeons in different islands of the 
Pacific, were unable to identify them, and in recording them 
were compelled to attach new names, thereby unconsciously add¬ 
ing to the ever-increasing list of synonymous names. For ex¬ 
ample, Ouoy and Gaimard, recording one Pigeon from Rawak 
Island, collected during the voyage of the “Uranie,” described 
a specimen as Columba aenea in the Zoological part of the work 
dealing with those collections; Voy. Uranie , Zool. 1824, p. 119, 
pi. 29. Then in 1827, Wagler described some specimens in his 
Syst. Avium, Columbae, sp. 15, under the name of Columba 
aenea. Eventually it was shown that only one specimen belonged 
to this species, and the other, or others, to C. myristicivora. On 
the same page he also gave a description of C. pacifica. 
