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neighbourhood of the Cape; the three others 

 have only been discovered lately. The most re- 

 markable is the corythaixpaulina,Cu\., of Sierra 

 Leone, which is valued by the negroes, who tame 

 it for the sake of its voice. The rest of the case 

 is fdled by the numerous varieties of the domestic 

 pigeon and the cognate species. We will only 

 call the attention to the columba muscadivora, 

 from the country of the Papous; that with a 

 white cap, from the West Indies; the bronze 

 winged pigeon (columba lumachella), whose 

 changing colours are extremely brilliant; the 

 kurukuru from New Holland, and the jamboos 

 from Sumatra. 



The remainder of this genus entirely fills the 

 twenty-eighth case. The species with long gra- 

 duated tails are on the upper shelves ; the 

 columba phasianella feeds on all-spice. On the 

 fourth shelf are the green pigeons with strong 

 beaks, which Levaillant names colombars (vi- 

 nago, Guv.). At the bottom are the columbi- 

 gallinae of the same ornithologist. Amongst the 

 most remarkable of this genus are, ist. The talpa- 

 coti from America (columba passerina), scarcely 

 the size of a sparrow. 2d. The goura, or crowned 

 pigeon of the Moluccas (columba corojiata), the 

 size of a cock. 3d. The bleeding dove, which 

 has a red spot on the white plumage of its breast, 





