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quently. The male hatches as well as the female. They nourish their 

 young by disgorging macerated grain into their crop. They form but one 

 genus, which naturalists have attempted to divide into three subgenera, 

 from the greater or less strength of the bill, and the proportions of the 

 feet. The 



Columbi-Gallines, Vaill. 



Approximate more nearly than the other subgenera to the ordinary 

 Gallinacese, by their more elevated tarsi and their labit of living in flocks, 

 seeking their food on the ground, and never perching. Their bill is 

 thin and flexible. 



One species is even allied to the Gallinaceae by the caruncles and 

 naked portions of skin that distinguish its head ; it is the Columba 

 carunculata, Tem. pi. 11; Cohwibi-galline, Vaill. 278. 



A second is, at all events, connected with them by its size, which 

 about equals that of the Turkey ; it is the Crowned Pic/eon of the 

 Archipelago of India; Goura, Tem.; Colombihocco, Vaill.; Col. 

 coronaia, Gm.; Sonn. 104; Enl. 118; Tem., Pigeons, pi. 1; 

 Vieill. Galer. 197. Altogether of a slate-blue, with some chesnut 

 and white on the wing ; the head ornamented with a vertical tuft of 

 long slender feathers. It is bred in the poultry yards at Java, &c., 

 but does not propagate in Europe*. 



A third claims an alliance with them, from the long pendent fea- 

 thers which ornament its neck, like that of the Cock. It is the 

 Pigeon de Nincombar ; Col. nincobarica,'h.; Enl. 491; and is of 

 the most brilliant golden-green, with a white tail. Found in several 

 parts of Indiaf. The 



Columba, 



Or Common Pigeons, have shorter feet than the preceding birds, but the 

 same thin and flexible bill. Four wild species are found in Europe. 



Col. palumbus, h.; Le Ramier, Enl. 31G. (The Cushat). Is 

 the largest, and inhabits the forests, preferring those with green 

 trees. It is ash-coloured, more or less blue ; breast of a vinous 

 red, and is distinguished by white spots on the sides of the neck and 

 on the wing. 



Col. cenas, L.; Le Colombin; Frisch, 139. (The Stock Dove, 

 or Lesser Cushat). A slate-grey, the breast vinous ; sides of the 



• This large Crowned Pigeon constitutes the genus gotira, or Lophyrus of Vieill. 

 Galer. pi. 197. 



f Species placed in this genus which are not, perhaps, sufficiently determined: 

 Columba cijanocephala, Enl. 174; Vaill. 281; Tem. Z;—Col. montana, Edw. 119; Tem. 

 4;— Co/, martinica, Enl. 141, 162; Vaill. 282; Tem. 5 and 6;—Col. enjthrothorax, 

 Tem. 7;— Col. cruenta, Sonn. 20, 21; Tem. 8 and 9;— Col. jamdicensis, Tem. 10; — 

 Col. ialpacoti, Tem. 12;— Col. passerina, Enl. 243, 2, Catesby, 26;— CoZ. minuta, Enl. 

 243, \:—Col. hottentotta, Tem.; Vaill. 283;— Co/, cobocola, and Col. griseola, Spix, 

 LXXV, 2(a). 



|^° (a) The C. passerina and squamosa form the genus Cham^pelia of Swain- 

 son; the C. cinerea, T., the genus Peristera, and the C. migratoria, the genus 



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