220 CARUNCULATED GROUND PIGEON. 



urges them to separate and pair, in order to insure 

 the propagation of the species. 



In size it about equals the Common Turtle, but 

 is thicker and rounder in the body. The base of 

 the bill and forehead is covered with a naked red 

 skin, and the chin is ornamented with a large wattle, 

 which turns upwards on each side towards the ears. 

 The head, the cheeks, the neck, and the breast, are 

 of a purplish-grey, the mantle, the scapulars, and 

 the wing-coverts are pale grey, the feathers finely 

 margined with white. The belly and abdomen, the 

 upper and under tail-coverts, as well as the flanks 

 and under wing-coverts, are pure white. The tail, 

 which is short, is rounded, the feathers of a deep 

 reddish-brown colour, except the exterior feather on 

 each side, which has the outer web white. The 

 bill is reddish at the base, the tip black. The legs 

 are of a purplish-red and covered with hexagonal 

 scales. The iris is composed of a double circle of 

 yellow and red. The female resembles the male in 

 the distribution of her plumage, but the colours are 

 less pure in tint, and she is destitute of the wattle 

 upon the throat. 



The subject of our next plate is a form equally 

 interesting and curious. It is 



