724 PIGEON 
deserves attention, but the beautiful “ Bronze-wings” of Australia, 
belonging to the genus Phaps, and some others are in their way 
hardly inferior. Then may be mentioned the strange Nicobar 
Pigeon, Calenas, an inhabitant of the Indian archipelago, not less 
remarkable for the long lustrous hackles that clothe its neck than 
for the structure of its gizzard, which has been described by Sir 
W. Flower (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 330), though this peculiarity 
is matched or even surpassed by that of the same organ in the 
Phenorrhina goliath of New Caledonia (Rev. Zool. 1862, p. 138) and 
in the Carpophaga latrans of Fiji, wherein the surface of the epithelial 
lining is beset- by horny conical processes, adapted, it is believed, 
for crushing the very hard fruits of Onocarpus vitiensis on which the 
bird feeds (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 102). The modern giants of 
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the group, consisting of about half a dozen species of the genus 
Goura and known as Crowned Pigeons have been already noticed, 
and all that need be added here is to mention the reticulated 
instead of scutellated covering of their “tarsi.” In contrast to 
them may be mentioned the African (Hina capensis, the “ Namaqua 
Duif” of the Dutch colonists, which if not the smallest is one of the 
most graceful in form of all the Columbe. 
A very distinct type of Pigeon is that represented by Didunculus 
strigirostris, the “‘ Manu-mea ” of Samoa, absurdly called the DODLET, 
and still believed by some to be the next of kin to the Dopo, though 
really presenting only a superficial resemblance in the shape of its 
bill to that effete form, from which it differs osteologically quite as 
much as do other Pigeons (Phil. Trans. 1869, p. 349). It remains 
to be seen whether the Papuan genus Ofidiphaps, of which several 
species are now known, may not belong rather to the Didunculidy 
than to the true Columbidx, 
