. Nidi e uova di uccelli trovati allevamento in Australia e Tasmania . e dcsh 17 pollici, ala 10 S, coda 7, Bill 0iJ5, tarsns !•■>. Adult FRMALE.: Simile nel piumaggio al maschio. Disirihntion.: Queensland, nuovo Galles del Sud, ictoria. ^^1I12 Top-knot o gregge il Pigeon, come viene spesso chiamato, è essenzialmente un abitante di pennelli costieri di terrida dell'est.-Vustralia, la sua gamma e.xtending da Cape York, punto più settentrionale del continente, a sud-est Victoria; è anche accaduto come stragglerin Tasmania. È, tuttavia, più abbondantemente dispersa attraverso le spazzole lussose di Eas
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. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . e dcsh 17 inches, wing 10 S, tail 7, bill 0iJ5, tarsns !•■>. Adult FRMALE.—Similar in plumage to the male. Disirihntion.—Queensland, New South Wales, ictoria. ^^1I12 Top-knot or Flock Pigeon, as it is often called, is essentially an inhabitant of therich coastal brushes of Eastern .-Vustralia, its range e.xtending from Cape York, thenorthernmost point of the continent, to South-eastern Victoria ; it has also occurred as a stragglerin Tasmania. It is, however, more abundantly dispersed throughout the luxuriant brushes ofEastern (Queensland and the northern coastal districts of New South Wales than elsewhere.This Pigeon is nomadic in habits, appearing generally in countless numbers in each districtwhen the wild fig and palm are in full bearing, and following up the different fruit and seed-bearing trees. One week the birds may be seen in thousands, the next there will not be one leftin the district after the food supply has given out. In some seasons the Top-laiot Pigeons are. 110 CAKPOPllAlilN*. more abundant in the localities they usually visit tiian others. In Auf^ust and September of1890, these birds were exceedingly numerous in New South Wales, from the Tweed toHawkesbury Rivers, and an unusually larf, e number were exposed for sale in the poulterersshops of Sydney. In July of the same year they were very common in Queensland, and had not been so plentiful since 1882. The flesh of the Top-knotIis^eon is not to be compared with the Wonga, or of anyof the r>ronze-winf^s, nevertheless during July, Augustand September it often forms an important item in thcmcnn of many an hotel and boarding-house in the northerncoastal districts of New South Wales. However numerousthis Pigeon is in Eastern .Australia, and it must breedsomewhere in large numbers, it is remarkable that itscommon breeding-grounds have not been discovered, onlya few nests having been taken, and its egg is the rarest incolle
