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SITY 



X^^'PORNl^^ 

 WHITE-FRONTED GRO&ND DOVE. 



Peristera larvata. 

 PLATE. XXVI. 



Columba larvata Temm. Pig. pi. 31. Id. 8vo. p. 266 

 Wag. Syst. Av. sp. 67 Columba a masque blanc, Temm 



Pig. p. 266 Columba Erythrothorax, Temm. Pig. Fam. 



Troisieme, pi. 7. Id. 8vo, 405 Wag. Syst. Av. sp. 68. 



Columbe-Galline face blanche, Temm. Pig. 405. 



IN size and the colour of its upper plumage, this 

 species bears a great resemblance to the White- 

 bellied Ground Dove. It belongs, however, to a 

 different quarter of the world ; as hitherto, it has only 

 been found in the southern division of the African 

 Continent. In the form of its bill and legs, it is 

 true to the type of the genus ; the wings are also 

 greatly rounded and concave, and the proportion of 

 the respective quill-feathers nearly the same, but it 

 wants the sudden attenuation or narrowed point of 

 the first feather, as observed in Peristera ruFaxilla; 

 in this respect, however, it agrees with the last de- 

 scribed, and some other species, which have the first 

 quill broad, and without any sudden narrowing near 

 the point. 



In M, Temminck's valuable history of the Pigeons, 

 two birds have been described under the names of 



