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THE CARUNCULATED GROUND PIGEON. 



Geophilus carunculatus. 

 PLATE XXVIII. 



Columba carunculata, Temm. Pig. 8vo. p. 415 Wayler, 



Syst. Av. sp. 41 Le Colombe-Galline, Le VailL Ois. 

 (TAfric. 5. t. 278. Colombe-Galline a Barbillon, Temm. 

 Pig. Fam. Trois. pi. 11. 



OF all the species hitherto discovered, there is no 

 species, Temminck observes, that shews a more de- 

 cided analogy, or rather affinity, to the true Gallina- 

 ceous Tribes, both in appearance and manners, than 

 the subject of the present Plate, and this likeness is 

 rendered still more striking by the accessory appen- 

 dages, which ornament the face and throat, and 

 which bear so direct an analogy to the wattles of 

 the common domestic fowl. It is a native of South 

 Africa, and was first discovered by Le Vaillant in 

 the Namaqua country, and the following detail of its 

 habits and economy is derived from the interesting 

 description given by that enterprising and scientific 

 traveller, in his splendid work on the African birds. 

 Its affinity to the pigeons, he remarks, is shewn by 

 the form of its bill, which is modelled exactly after 



