[1] The Lord Howe pigeon was mostly brown, with a purple head and breast, and a white patch on its throat.

[2] A written report was made Arthur Bowes, who landed on the island when the Lady Penrhyn stopped there in 1788.

Parties from his ship collected many birds from the island, including many Lord Howe pigeons, which they subsequently ate.

Lady Penrhyn had been travelling with the Charlotte, and her Captain, Thomas Gilbert, wrote that he captured five or six dozen of the birds, almost all that he found.

Raper had never personally travelled to Lord Howe Island, but may have seen specimens of the pigeon caught there and taken about the Sirius or another ship.