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Great Namaquas. They are there of a smaller size than those 

 we see in Europe, but their voice is similar, and they build 

 their nests in trees, like the last noticed species. The male 

 exhibits great tenderness for the female, remaining ahvays 

 near her, especially during the night, and testifying his 

 affection by the peculiar sounds we have mentioned. He also 

 sometimes utters a plaintive cry, which is far from dis- 

 agreeable. 



We give a figure of the Hurrial Pigeon^ also from the 

 drawings of General Hardwicke. The front is greenish-ash- 

 colour, inclining to purple ; upper neck, olive-green ; lower, 

 chin, and breast, yellowish ; back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts, cinereous-green ; yellowish-ash beneath, &c. The 

 specimen was shot at Cawnpore in March, 1798, and in it the 

 bill and claws were white, and the tail dove-colour. 



The species of the pigeons are so excessively numerous 

 that it would be utterly inconsistent with our limits to dwell 

 any farther on them. Indeed we could give little respecting 

 what remain, but specific descriptions, which would be super- 

 fluous, and notices of common habits, which, for the most 

 part, would be only repetitionary of what has preceded, and 

 consequently tedious and disagreeable. We shall content 

 ourselves with concluding this supplement on the gallinaj 

 with a brief notice of the first species in the division 



ViNAGO. 



This is the Wallia Pigeon^ {Columba Ahyssinica). It 

 has been met with by Levaillant in Southern Africa, who 

 seemed to consider it as a new bird. It was, however, dis- 

 covered before his time in Abyssinia, by our meritorious and 

 enterprising, but much calumniated countryman, Bruce, 

 whose services in the cause of science are scarcely yet appre- 

 ciated to the full extent of their deserving. He informs us, 

 that these pigeons inhabit the lower regions of Abyssinia, 

 where, perched upon the highest trees, they remain motion - 



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