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brown; the others dove colour, crofied with a bar of black near the 
ends: the forehead in fome fpecimens is buff colour, nearly white; 
with the chin the fame, paffing beneath the eye: in others, the whole 
of the face is brown, with a dark ftreak through the eye. 
This inhabits Norfolk Iland, alfo various parts of New Holland, 
and no where more frequent than in the neighbourhood of Siduey Cove 
and Betany Bay; more efpecially in fandy and defert tracts; is only 
feen from September to February, and at that time very numerous ; 
and chiefly in pairs. They make a neft either in the ftump of fome low 
tree, or on the ground; lay two white eggs in a very flight neft, 
and hatch in November: are-obferved to feed chiefly on a fruit like a 
cherry, the ftones.of which have been found in quantities. in their 
ftomachs. The places they frequent are eafily known, as they make 
a loud kind of cooing noife, which at a diftance may be miftaken for 
the lowing ofa cow. The name it is known by, in New Holland, is 
Goad-gang, and by the Englifh, Ground Pigeon, being unable to take long 
flights, and feen chiefly on the ground or low trees; called by fome 
alfo Brufh Pigeon. 
Columba brunnea, Ind. Ora. ii. p. 603. 38. 
HE bill and legs in this fpecies are blood red: the crown; upper 
part of the neck, back, and wing coverts,. red brown:  breaft, fore 
part of the neck, and rump, glofly green. 
Inhabits New Zealand, 
Columba A-gyptiaca, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 607. 49.——Forfk. Faun: Arab. p. 5. 15: 
HE bill is black: head flefh colour, with a tinge of violet : orbits 
naked, and blueifh: the feathers of the throat are cuneiform, 
black, divided at the tips. into two flender lobes, which diverge, are 
truncated at the ends, and of a rufty flefh colour: back cinereous : 
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