CROWNED GOURA PIGEON. 



Lophyrus coronatus VIEILLOT. 

 PLATE XXX. 



Columba coronata, Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 566. sp. 9 Wag. 

 Syst. Av. sp. 8. Phasianus cristatus Indieus, Briss. Orn. 

 i. p. 279. sp. 6. t. 26. f. i Great Crowned Pigeon, Edw. 

 t. 338. Lath. Syn. iv. p. 620. Columbi Hocco, Le Vaill 



Ois. d'Afr. vi. t. 280 Colombe-Galline Goura, Temm. 



Pig. Fam. Trois. PL Enl. \ . Id. ed. 8vo, p. 377. 



IN this magnificent and beautiful bird, we observe 

 a combination of form different from that of the 

 Ground Pigeons, so lately described, for, instead of 

 the marked affinity to the typical rasorial families, 

 the Pavonidse and Tetraonidse, so decidedly exhibit- 

 ed by these species, both in their mode of life, and 

 in their deviation from the usual Columbine figure, 

 we have, in the present instance, an approximation 

 of structure much nearer that of some of the Cracidte, 

 another tribe of birds which constitutes an aberrant 

 family of the Rasorial Order, and it is on this ac 

 count, we think, that this bird cannot well be placed 

 in the same division with the Ground Doves, but must 

 constitute the type of a separate group. Standing 

 as the two families of the Columbidce and Cracidce 



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